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Butterflies taste with their feet. Chemoreceptors on their leg tips (the tarsi) detect sugars and chemicals the instant they land, about 200 times more sensitively than the human tongue. Females taste a plant with their feet before laying eggs, so their caterpillars can eat it.

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