What Butterflies Have in Common with Straws

What Butterflies Have in Common with Straws

by Paige Brown, Museum Blogger-in-Residence. If you guessed 'their proboscis" for what butterflies have in common with straws, you are right! The butterfly proboscis is a slender, tubular feeding structure that works like a straw through which a butterfly drinks its food. When the butterfly first emerges from its pupa or chrysalis, its proboscis is actually…

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