Decorate the wings with markers to match your model, if you wish. Take the wing pipe cleaner and tape it securely to the wing paper. Stick the wing into the thorax. Repeat for the other side. Lesson Plan 3 - Nectar, food of the Butterfly Most butterflies drink only liquid food, called nectar.
Nectar comes from deep inside flowers.
Their mouths are made for sipping the nectar. Inside the butterfly's mouth is a long tube, called a proboscis. Usually, the tube is coiled inside the butterfly's mouth, but when the butterfly smells its favorite food, nectar, its tongue uncoils. Then the butterfly sips the nectar using its proboscis like a straw. If it's warm and sunny outside, you can try to attract butterflies using artificial nectar.