What Do Sea Butterflies Eat
The Sea Butterflies Have Developed a Net of Mucous-Webbing for Inactively Catching Microscopic Organisms Like Small Crustaceans, but It Can Also Be Used to...
What Do Sea Butterflies Eat?
The sea butterflies have developed a net of mucous-webbing for inactively catching microscopic organisms like small crustaceans, but it can also be used to catch sinking particles, so-called “flux feeding.” The snails actively sort out the food they gathered and expel particles they can’t digest.
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How does a sea butterfly eat?
They are generally herbivorous, entangling planktonic food through a mucous web that can be up to 5 cm wide, many times larger than themselves. If disturbed, they abandon the net and flap slowly away. When descending to deeper water, they hold their wings up.
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