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Butterflies do not chew their food, but eat by their proboscis or tongue. The proboscis helps the butterflies to suck the nectar from flowers.
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Does a butterfly have a mouth?
A butterfly is the mature (final) stage of the life cycle of the insect. Butterflies can sip nectar but their mouth parts can not chew food. In the immature stages butterfly caterpillars do have mouth parts for chewing food and they do indeed chew food.
How is a butterfly dependent on a flowering plant?
Butterflies depend on the nectar from flowers for food. Without the flowering plants that they feed from, butterflies would starve.
Do adult butterflies eat solid food?
No. Only the caterpillars of butterflies eat solid food such as leaves and plant parts. Adult butterflies themselves do not eat, but drink. They usually feed on nectar from plant flowers or tree sap. Some butterflies will feed on the sugars in rotting fruits. The Harvester butterfly actually pierces the bodies of woolly aphids and drinks their fluids.
What are 3 important things that help begin to chew your food?
Mouth, teeth and saliva.
How does butterfly get its foods?
pee pee they use its intents to suck pee pee
True or false butterflies have teeth to chew and bite their food?
False
True or falseButterflies have teeth to bite and chew their food?
False, butterflies do not have teeth.
Do butterflies chew?
Butterflies do not have teeth so therefore they cannot chew. They exist on a liquid diet of nectar and water that they suck up through a tube called a proboscis.
What adaptation does a hawk use to chew food?
A hawk has a beak and therefore can not chew food, to chew food you need teeth to chew with.
Do they chew their food?
seahorses do not chew their food because they do not have teeth
Do snakes chew chew their food?
No they do not, they swallow their food whole.
Can butterfly chew why?
Butterflies suck up nectar from flowers using their tube-like mouth part. They do not have teeth, so can't chew!
When you chew food what is when you chew food what is squirted in your mouth squirted in your mouth?
saliva squrited in your mouth when you chew.
Does a butterfly have a mouth?
A butterfly is the mature (final) stage of the life cycle of the insect. Butterflies can sip nectar but their mouth parts can not chew food. In the immature stages butterfly caterpillars do have mouth parts for chewing food and they do indeed chew food.
Do people chew food?
It is recommended that humans chew their food thoroughly.
How do flies butterflies and beetles get food?
butterflies get their food by sucking nector from flowers.beetles get their food by sucking blood.
What happen to food that you chew?
Happen to the food is melted the food and it soft that soften the food answer 1.melted 2.soften 3.chew and chew the food become small.
