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- Lachryphagy is the practice of feeding on tears and other eye secretions. Certain bees, butterflies, and flies have been observed feeding on the tears...
- sleeping vertebrates, including humans. Ophthalmotropy (eye-attraction) and lachryphagy (tear drinking) occur in a number of unrelated moths that visit mammals...
- November. Adults drink the tears of several animals including humans (lachryphagy). The moth attaches itself to the eyelid. It has also been recorded drinking...
- noctuids, have modified proboscises to suit their mode of nutrition – lachryphagy (feeding on tears of sleeping birds). The proboscises often have sharp...
- recorded on Nephelium lappaceum. Adults have been observed drinking tears (lachryphagy) from mammals. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel (1983). The Moths of Borneo, Part...