A Tool For Nectaring
In the mysterious, if not uncanny, environs of the Big Thicket National Preserve, a Palamedes Swallowtail Butterfly probes a thistle plant with its prodigiously elongated proboscis. The outrageous sucking device is a highly effective adaptation for bringing the plant’s ambrosia to the insect … a tool for nectaring.
~ Anecdote and Palamedes Swallowtail Butterfly capture, A Tool For Nectaring © Jerry L. Ferrara