Mouthpart
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The piercing-sucking
mouthpart
consists of a long, tube-like structure called a beak.
More example sentences with word mouthpart
The chewing
mouthpart
is the most common.
You can find this
mouthpart
on ants from the Hymenoptera order, grasshoppers and crickets of the Orthoptera order, dragonflies of the Odonata order, and beetles of the Coleoptera order.
The siphoning mouthpart, a friendlier version of the piercing and sucking beak, also consists of a long, tube-like structure called a proboscis that works like a straw to suck up nectar from flowers.
With the sponging mouthpart, there’s yet another tube, this time ending in two spongy lobes that contain many finer tubes called pseudotracheae.
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