When you think of butterflies you probably think of a sweet, kind, creature that doesn't harm anything or anyone. What you may not know is that butterflies are really smart enough into getting ants raising butterflies. Only a certain type called European Butterfly can do this. They do this by going inside the an ants home and copying their scent. Jeromy A. Thomas from Oxford in Great Britain has said that: "But, not content just to be fed, the butterflies even manage to demand special treatment,". The butterflies even copied the queen's sounds so when they need help the "nurse" ants would just go and help them even if that meant to kill their own larvae to help feed the butterflies. I read there was also an experiment in which on butterfly "queen ant" was placed with four real ones it turns out that the queens started to attack the catapillar that was pretending to be the queen but when the workers saw this, instead they attacked the four real queens. I wonder what other miracles nature was going to bring next.
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