The Grossest Thing About Butterflies



Butterflies are beautiful and are the favorite insect for most folks (I like honeybees best myself). But they aren't here to please us, as Hank Green makes clear. He also mentions at the beginning that butterflies don't have weird, creepy tentacles, which turns out to be untrue. Have you ever heard of a "wafting organ"? That's the thoroughly unscientific name for coremata, which are stinky butt tentacles you never expect to see on a butterfly. Female butterflies like them, and that's what matters to a male butterfly. Or moth, which is the go-to example here for some reason. I'm sure Minnesotastan knows more about this; he's the only butterfly expert I know.


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Hehehe.... the idea that butterflies could be so pretty to please a human beholder... is just so absurd. Except for some hobby breeds, why should give any anymal any you-know-what to please any human. It seems as absurd to assume that some anymals are there to bug or annoy us... or that any human could be here to please any other animal or entity...
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