GROSS question

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In article <1998052702295000.WAA28452 at ladder03.news.aol.com>,
priya54 at aol.com (Priya54) wrote:

> How do butterflies and moths excrete their waste products?
> Or, in less polite words...
> how do they poop and pee?
> Just wondering....

All give a brownish or redish blast from the end of the abdomen at first
flight, left over metabolic material from metamorphosis in the pupa --
which has created historic events "red rain" etc.

Saturnid moths etc. consume no nutrients or liquid during their adult
lifespan and so there is no "residue"

I have observed butterflies, of several families, sitting at a wet spot
and pumping clear liquid out the end of the abdomen as fast as they sucked
it in through the proboscis.

Dave