Do butterflies have pee?

Adult butterflies do not urinate or defecate (or "go to the bathroom"). The larval life stage - the caterpillar - does all of the eating, and caterpillars almost continually defecate. Interestingly, when there enough caterpillars eating in the same place, their defecation is audible.
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What color is a butterfly pee?

Red dye goes through the digestive system of butterflies and stains their pee red. Yes, butterflies pee. The red pee will stain clothes and other material. We now use light blue Gatorade for that reason.
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Do butterflies have poop?

Question: Do butterflies poop? Answer: Butterflies pee. They only drink liquids and never eat solids, so they don't actually 'poop' but only pass liquid.
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Why do butterflies pee red?

Your butterflies will expel a red liquid called meconium. This is a completely natural occurrence. Meconium is the leftover part of the caterpillar that was not needed to make the butterfly. This is stored in the intestine of the butterfly and expelled after the butterfly emerges.
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What Colour is butterfly poop?

This is where the poop comes in. Bile, in vertebrates is made in the liver and aids in digestion of fats. While bile occasionally makes our poop green, because of a yellow-ish green substance called bilirubin, in butterflies and moths bile pigments can have stunning color effects.
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Do caterpillars pee?

In this case, the caterpillar kidney switches to using the water from their blood, so it can work uninterrupted. This allows their kidney to use water from the caterpillar's blood to produce urine.
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Is there any animal that doesn't poop?

Are there any animals that don't poop? As a matter of fact yes there are: Tardigrades - These little alien-like critters only excrete when they molt. So any "fecal" matter produced it not really pooped out as we would really describe it.
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Do butterflies poop out of their mouth?

Adult butterflies do not urinate or defecate (or "go to the bathroom"). The larval life stage - the caterpillar - does all of the eating, and caterpillars almost continually defecate. Interestingly, when there enough caterpillars eating in the same place, their defecation is audible. That is, you can hear the poop!
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Do butterflies eat tears?

Most butterflies drink nectar (or drink blood or sweat or urine or tears), but they don't defecate.
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Is there a butterfly that drinks blood?

Like something out of a horror movie, a moth that sucks and drinks the blood of it's victims. In 2008, Vampire moths were discovered in Siberia. The moth, when being studied by an entomologist, was experimentally offered a human hand. The moth drilled it's tongue through the skin and started drinking human blood.
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Do butterflies throw up?

Green liquid with caterpillars normally means either stress or insecticides. Some species immediately spit when they are touched. Skippers are notorious for this reflex.
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What is the red liquid that comes out of a butterfly?

Don't be alarmed if you see a red liquid, which may look like blood, coming from the tail of the butterfly. This is called Meconium. It's a waste product left over from the butterfly's metamorphosis.
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Do snakes poop?

' This opening can be found at the end of a snake's belly and beginning of its tail; unsurprisingly, the feces are the same width as the snake's body. A snake will use the same opening to defecate, urinate, mate, and lay eggs—now that's multi-purpose!
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Can you drink butterfly pee?

The drink is made from steeping the flowers in hot water like you would with tea leaves. And then adding sugar. And there you have it, butterfly pee or butterfly pea drink. And that's how I ended up drinking butterfly pee in Thailand.
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Do caterpillars poo?

We all know caterpillars eat, eat and eat, but they they also poo, poo and poo. In point of fact it is not called poo or excretment or even faeces, it has its own name FRASS.
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Do caterpillars eat their own poop?

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have figured out why these caterpillars like to season the leaves they're about to eat with their own poop, and the discovery could help with developing pesticides.
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Are butterflies drunk?

They do. A lot. Butterflies, for instance, enjoy a good brew, says Katy Prudic, an entomologist at the University of Arizona: “I've gotten butterflies out of beer cans before." Males likely drink beer to boost their spermatophores, nutrient-rich packages that they give to females as a nuptial gift, Prudic says.
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Do butterflies like pee?

Butterflies love urine. Apparently, especially, human urine. When they can't get their fix, they'll drink their own!
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What animal does not poop or pee?

Birds, unlike mammals, do not have separate exits for urine and feces. Both waste products are eliminated simultaneously through the cloaca. While mammals excrete nitrogenous wastes mostly in the form of urea, birds convert it to uric acid or guanine, which reduces water loss in comparison.
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What animal poops out of mouth?

In 1880, the German zoologist Carl Chun suggested a pair of tiny pores opposite the comb jelly mouth might secrete some substance, but he also confirmed that the animals defecate through their mouths. In 1997, biologists again observed indigestible matter exiting the comb jelly mouth—not the mysterious pores.
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What animal poops the most?

Small birds, may defecate up to 40 times a day, but bigger birds much less often, such as 12 times a day. Rabbit – They poop a lot! From what I've found they poop up to 200-300 pellets a day. Canada goose poop.
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Why is my poop green?

Food may be moving through the large intestine too quickly, such as due to diarrhea. As a result, bile doesn't have time to break down completely. Green leafy vegetables, green food coloring, such as in flavored drink mixes or ice pops, iron supplements. A lack of bile in stool.
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What animal does not fart?

Share All sharing options for: Farts: which animals do, which don't, and why. Here's a mind-boggling fact: Almost all mammals fart, yet the sloth does not.
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Do snakes pee?

Snakes get rid of their waste similarly to most other animals. Once everything has been digested, the waste passes through an opening near the end of their tail, called the cloaca. Both the feces and ammonia acid come out in a solid state. Snakes don't really “pee” in the same way that other animals do.
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