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CANNIBAL BUTTERFLIES
esearchers in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, hazve discovered a surprising and grisly behaviour in milkweed butterflies. They have repeatedly observed adult male butterflies using tiny claws on their feet to scratch wounds in the bodies of caterpillars of their own species to slurp up the liquid that oozes out. Milkweed butterflies are so named because they feed on milkweed plants and use chemicals from the sap to repel predators and to produce pheromones to attract females. The butterflies do
