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The external respiratory orifices of insects.
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How many spiracles does a butterfly have?
Butterflies have nine pairs of spiracles. These are pores open to the air and tracheae which carry air through the body of an insect. Spiracles are located on the abdomen and thorax.
Lobsters use for respiration?
spiracles and tracheae
How does a fly breathe?
Spiracles - small openings in the abdomen- go into trachae - breathing pipes
What does a butterfly breathe through?
They use their tongue or proboscis, a straw like tube, to suck nectar from flowers. The butterfly uses its very long proboscis, which is like a straw, to sip nectar from flowers. When it is not feeding, the proboscis rolls up onto itself into a flat "ball". This a previous Answers.com answer on this subject.
How do butterflies breathe?
An insect's breathing pores are called spiracles. They are usually located on the thorax and abdomen. Caterpillars, butterflies and moths breathe using spiracles.Insects have pores that are called spircales; they use these to breath. They are found on the thorax and abdomen.
Why are spiracles important?
Function of spiracles for sharks
Why do insects have spiracles?
it have spiracles so it can breathe. like a boss
What is an example of an organism with spiracles?
spiracles are the breathing apparatus of insects.
Do crayfish have spiracles?
No. The aquatic kind of spiracle (such as you'd find on rays and skates) could be located only on cartilaginous fish, or the most primitive of the bony fish. The loosest definition of spiracles seems to include a respiratory opening such as the blowhole in whales; lobsters do have ventral openings to the gills but these are anatomically dissimilar to those. (Also since lobsters are aquatic, they do not possess spiracles of the type you'd find on insects.)
What is the job of the spiracles on an insect?
The insect uses its spiracles to breathe through instead of their mouth.
Do stick insects have spiracles?
All insects have spiracles. This is how they breathe because they do not have lungs like vertebrates do!
How many spiracles does a butterfly have?
Butterflies have nine pairs of spiracles. These are pores open to the air and tracheae which carry air through the body of an insect. Spiracles are located on the abdomen and thorax.
Where are the spiracles located on a dragonfly?
Spiracles are used by grasshoppers for respiration. Air is taken in throught the spiracles and filtered by hairs in tubes called tracheae. The trachea branch out through the body eventually ending in Tracheoles where the oxygen is distributed to cells and carbon dioxide is taken out and back throught the trachea and exits the body through the spiracles
Do crab have spiracles?
bum
Does a cricket have a spiracles?
yes
Where are the spiracles on an ant?
head
What do insects use their Spiracles for?
They breathe through it
