It has four leg like things near its mouth that is used to store food while it is eating, it is called the labium and the maxilla.
It has four leg like things near its mouth that is used to store food while it is eating, it is called the labium and the maxilla.
grasshoppers have four arm like things near their mouth that grabs the plant for them and holds it for them while they eat it.
As living things grow in their life, their bodies grow and adapt to many things. A grasshoppers mouthparts are adapted to chewing fibrous plants.
Insects have jaws and movable mouth parts that act like teeth. The jaws of grasshoppers are adapted for cutting and chewing plants. Mosquitoes have needle-shaped mouth parts for piercing skin and sucking blood.
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someone who is an EXPERT at bugs can answer this! THATS NOT ME.
Grasshoppers have chewing mouth parts, meant for eating solid plant material. Butterflies have sucking mouth parts meant for sipping nectar.
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No. They have biting mouth parts, but they do not have teeth.
they just open their mouth then bite
Labrum-holds foodMandibles-mouthparts that can chew and pierce foodlabium-helps the maxillae chew/holds foodmaxillary palps-sense food characteristicsmaxillae-chew and taste foodLabial palps-contain sense organs that help a grasshopper choose suitable food (similar to a tongue, I think)
the only difference is in the shape of the mouth, one is adapted to eating long grasses and the other to low growing grasses.
Guyomatics, O'fitiumons, and Grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers eat leaves, and they need to be able to cut off pieces that are small enough for them to swallow.