{"id":9773,"date":"2020-10-03T11:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_description&#038;p=9773"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:52:10","slug":"do-butterflies-have-ears-kira-age-7","status":"publish","type":"cu_description","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/description\/do-butterflies-have-ears-kira-age-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Do butterflies have ears?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 id=\"\" class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n\n    <\/header>\n\n<p>Insects have many different types of ears all over their bodies. Many butterflies have ears at the bases of their front wings. We think they use them to hear bird predators. Some butterflies that fly at night use their ears to detect hunting bats. Some butterflies have \u2018hearing aids\u2019 on their wings to amplify sounds that are important to them.&nbsp; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jayne-yack\/\">Dr. Jayne Yack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_description_type":[59],"class_list":["post-9773","cu_description","type-cu_description","status-publish","hentry","cu_description_type-butterfly-show"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/9773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_description"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description\/9773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_description_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_description_type?post=9773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}