Butterflies Enjoy Frog Carcasses
When I found out that butterflies are attracted to dead frog bodies, among other creatures, I was repulsed at first. Butterflies? You would expect carrion feasts to make it onto a buzzard's menu, but a beautiful butterfly? Well by now we all know that butterflies are a messy goo as they transform, so why not enjoy a messy body or two for dinner?
The reality is that all of the fruits and flowers we set out to attract them don't give them the salt they need, so butterflies turn to a variety of sources. They like human sweat, dead bodies, urine... all kinds of salt sources! They also like to feast on feces and blood, which gives me lots of weird plot ideas for vampires with proboscis...
What weird facts about frogs have you read lately?