List the grasshopper's mouthparts and their functions?

Answer 1

• Labrum-holds food
• Mandibles-mouthparts that can chew and pierce food
• labium-helps the maxillae chew/holds food
• maxillary palps-sense food characteristics
• maxillae-chew and taste food
• Labial palps-contain sense organs that help a grasshopper choose suitable food (similar to a tongue, I think)

Answer 2

There are several parts of the grasshoppers mouth: Labrum (upper lip), Lingua (the hypopharynx), Maxillae, Labium (lower lip), and Mandibles.

A pair of Mandibles on the grasshopper are hard, horny, heavy, and large, with jagged inner edges and dark colored triangular structures found one on either side. The two mandibles move in horizontal motion and crush food between them (Ex: grass).

All the mouth parts are to cut, crush, and grind vegetative food in order to digest.

Answer 3

The mouth parts of a grasshopper are adapted to the chewing and biting of plants. They can devour grasses and similar plant life quite rapidly; when many grasshoppers are feeding at once you can hear their jaws click as they eat.

Answer 4

They have a Clypeus, a Labrum (upper lip), a maxllary palp, a labial palp, and a labium.

Answer 5

The mouth parts of a grasshopper are adapted to the left and right Mouthparts called Mandibles that enable them to chew through tough plants

Answer 6

the mouth parts of a grasshopper is a mandibles

Answer 7

Mandibles and Maxibles

Answer 8

Grasshoppers have chewing mouthparts.

Answer 9

They are used for eating.