Inconclusive afternoons

[angelikfire]

Yesterday on TV there was a psycho who fixed broken wings of (living) butterflies with glue. He would cut the broken part, get a similar one from a dead butterfly, and then glue it to the remaining part of the original wing. All this with regular glue. It was creepy as hale, and not at all convincing: wouldn't the glue make the wing heavier than

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[cheryl_tunt]

Yeah, I feel like that would make the butterfly unable to fly and probably end up killing it. :( That's still interesting, though.

[angelikfire]

What I was wondering was, do butterflies feel pain if you mess with their wings? I mean, there must be some kind of terminations in them, or else they wouldn't be able to move them, right?

... I think I will pay a visit to dear old Wikipedia.