Example collocations logo

Mouthpart in sentence

9 examples of Mouthpart in a sentence

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 piercing-sucking mouthpart consists of a long, tube-like structure called a beak.
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.
Biting flies within Diptera, like mosquitoes, horse flies, and deer flies, have a piercing-sucking mouthpart instead of the sponging mouthpart.
And finally, the chewing-lapping mouthpart is a combination of mandibles and a proboscis with a tongue-like structure at its tip for lapping up nectar.
On this type of mouthpart, the mandibles themselves are not actually used for eating.
Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects.