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What is the mode of ingestion of butterfly?

The mode of ingestion of a butterfly is through the long proboscis. This part of the butterfly sucks in nectar.


What eats a glass wing butterfly?

-A glasswing butterfly eats the same thing as a regular butterfly with no name... *All butterfly's eat nectar from a majority of flowers!.


What organ does the butterfly use to get their food?

The organ or body part that the butterfly uses to eat food is the proboscis. This is what they use to drink or suck nectar from flowers and plants.


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 common name of a butterfly's pupa stage?

The common name of a butterfly's pupa stage is its cocoon stage. This is the part of the butterfly's life where they transform from a larva to a butterfly.


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!


Why it is more difficult to get rid of the mosquito when it is a pest as compared to butterfly?

Mosquitos feed on blood - as part of their life-cycle. Butterflies feed on nectar from flowers.


How do butterflies gathers its foods?

The butterfly gathers its food through the proboscis. This part of their body acts like a straw and allows them to suck nectar and water.


What flies at night a butterfly or a mouth?

Uhm, well saying since you spelling SUCKS. A mouth is a part of the body and does not fly at night or in the day.


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


Do butterfly live in water when young?

for a part of their life draonflys live under water. when they are still eggs they will be layed hatched and grow under water then they will grow to the actual dragonfly stage and climb a reed or water plant and dry off its newly formed wings then fly away.


What part of speech is the word sucks?

Sucks is a verb.