They drank only the tears of their enemies.
I wouldn't be surprised if butterflies helped facilitate the evolution of flowering plants.
Was there any kind of pollinating plant life before flowers? Is it known what pre-flower butterflies might of eaten? Did bees evolve before flowers too? Is there a limit to the amount of questions I'm going to ask?
Butterflies without flowers sounds like a weird image, but we went from dinosaurs to modern birds and from little rodents to whales and humans in less than 70 million years. I guess butterflies got really lucky that a food source so easy for them to adapt to using evolved, although the preexistence of animals that can serve as pollinators probably assisted the evolutionary advantage of reproducing via flowers.
This is completely incorrect. No insect lives more than a few years, much less 70 million! /s
Or we just haven't found the oldest flower.