A BUTTERFLY'S TASTE
MORE ACUTE THAN MAN'S A butterfly's leg is 1600 times as effective as a man's tongue as an orga.n of taste. That is the conclusion reached following experiments with more than 200 butterflies, representing 10 species made recently at the University of Minnesota. In making the tests, the legs of the insects were dipped in water, then in solutions containing sugar of milk and ordinary sugar. As soon as the butterfly was able to detect any sweeting in the water, its proboscis became uncoiled and extended. Gradually reducing the sugar in the solution the smallest amount the insect could detect was discovered. Further tests showed that this amount had to be increased 1600 times before the human tongue could detect it. The eommon butterfly was found to have th'e most highly developed sense of taste.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 528, 11 May 1933, Page 2
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