The Digestive System of a Butterfly
What is your animal's digestive system adapted to?
What structures or organs do humans have that your animal does not?
Special behaviors that your animal has to acquire/digest food.
What structures or organs your animal has that humans do not have?
- Eating liquids
- The butterfly only eats and feeds on liquids.
What structures or organs might give you a clue as to what a butterfly eats?
- Malpighian tubules
- Absorbs solutes, water, and wastes and helps excrete them.
- Crop
- Expanded, muscular pouch part of the esophagus.
- Proboscis
- a flexible tongue.
- Male butterflies
- Mud-puddling
- Sipping sodium and amino acids from nutrient-rich mud puddles
- All butterflies
- Crop
- Temporarily stores food and prepares it for digestion.
- Malpighian tubules
- Absorb solutes, water, and wastes and help excrete them.
- Proboscis
Anatomy of a butterfly
Proboscis #4 on chart
By: Sofia, Bijan, and Trent