butterfly eye and mouth
handheld macro of butterfly warming up in the morning sun. Olympus 60mm macro lens.
A cool, colourful close up shot. I hope you don’t mind, but butterflies don’t have mouth parts. The proboscis, is it’s mouthpart. It’s used like a straw, to suck up liquids, like nectar, water. What you see below the eye is one of two labial palps. The hairs on the palps helps the butterfly taste food sources
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