Le Petit Frimeur

YOU CAN EAT THESE????

YEAH! THE RED/PURPLE ONES ARE SWEETEST

personally I pick them apart petal by petal and eat the nectar off the ends

YEAH ME TOO!! Taking huge bites out the whole thing feels Wrong, but one by one like that it’s really good

wh. WHAT

YEAH…

hold on they’re literally everywhere,, i’m going to go grab one

i’m supposed to eat this???

Yes yes!! Eat those white buds!

okay so first try, they just tasted like,, leaf??

but SECOND TRY i really focused on chewing the back of the bud, and….

holy heck, i’m actually into it

it’s like… pear, almost, like a not-quite-ripe pear

W-what are those

have you ever seen a swallowtail caterpillar defend itself?

I can't get over how it has Instant Eyebrows

This is called an osmeterium! It’s a defensive organ found in all swallowtails caterpillars. They evert it when disturbed, as you saw above, to either startle their foe or gross them out with the foul-smelling secretions the organ emits :)