The Animals · Episode 41 · Wild Fact

🦋 Butterflies Taste Your Food Before You Do — With Their FEET

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Okay. Sit down for this one. 👀

You know that pretty little butterfly that lands on your watermelon at a picnic? The one you go "awww" at? 🍉

Yeah. It already tasted your fruit. Before its mouth ever got close.

How? With its FEET. 👣

That's not a joke. That's not a cute way of saying it. Butterflies literally taste through their feet. The second they land on something, their feet already know — sweet or bitter, safe or poison, the right plant ...