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What is that curled tube in a butterflies head called?
The curled tube located near a butterfly's head is called a "proboscis". The proboscis is similar to a drinking straw and it allows a butterfly to drink nectar from flowers.
What is the proboscis in relationship to the monarch butterfly?
a curled up tongue
What is the mouth part of the butterfly uses to get food?
The proboscis. This looks like a long, curved hollow tube the butterfly uses to suck nectar from flowers. In rest, it's curled up beneath the head, barely visible in some species, but when feeding it's outstretched to the food source. Try having a butterfly land on your hand, it might lick sweat from your fingers for the salt and you can see for yourself. ^^
What is the eating organ of a butterfly?
In the larval stage, a moth or butterfly (typically a caterpillar) has mandibles and a conventional mouth to feed on plant material (or, rarely, on insects). As an adult, most species of butterfly have a curled tube called a proboscis that extends to drink nectar from flowering plants. Some get nutrients from pollen, decaying matter, or wet soil. Some adult butterflies do not eat at all, and have a very short lifespan.
What is a propocsis?
An insects tongue. A butterfly has a proboscis, and it is like a curled-up long tongue.
What is the name of a butterfly sipping tube?
The butterfly's sipping tube that coils and uncoils is called a proboscis, verterbrates, and inverterbrates can have these like the elephant. A proboscis is an appendage from the head of an animal. : )
What is the name given to the feeding tube of a bee?
the name of the mouth part of a butterfly is called the feeding tube
Which combination system can be used with syringe and the vacuum tube?
Butterfly collection system
What is a sentence for curled?
The bloody scene curled my hair. The housecat was snugly curled up by the fireplace.
What is the method venipuncture when drawing blood from a 75 years old patient with thin veins?
A butterfly needle with tube and vacuum syringe.
Coiled tube like a mouth part of a butterfly?
The proboscis is the coiled, tube-like appendage on butterflies and some other insects. When the butterfly wants to drink nectar, it uncurls the proboscis and uses it like a straw to suck up nectar from flowers.
What is a proboscis?
It is a " butterfly "tongue". its a long tube rolled up composed of two parts the butterfly can unfurl and use as a straw to get nectar. It can also be the nose of mammal such as an elephant.
