A close up of a Butterfly
📚 Archive Post — Originally published on April 29, 2021. This content is now freely available as part of our public archive.
This video shows the long tongue of a butterfly. It has evolved a long tongue to be able to get the nectar inside a flower. Hummingbirds also have extremely long tongues too. Both butterflies and hummingbirds are able to coil their tongues inside their head. They essentially unwind their tongues to reach the nectar.
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