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What is the part of a butterfly that sucks nectar name?
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What are tube lke mouth parts of butterfly is called?
The tube like part of the mouth of all Lepidoptera (butterflies) is called probiscus. It is specifically designed to allow the animal to drink nectar from deep within the structure of a flower.
What does the papilio butterfly eat?
From as far as I'm aware of, they have no natural predators. Not from lack of them, that's for sure, but more because of the alkaloids they have absorbed when they are first laid from the Nightshades (the only plants which they lay their eggs on).This toxic chemical has no effect on them, even to adulthood, but does leave them tasting quite bad. Because of this bad taste, no predators want to eat them.
What is haustoria?
it is the part through which mosquito sucks.
Where are nectar found on which flower sex part stigma or anther?
it may be the female part......
What kind of plants does a butterfly like to drink out of?
plant a buddleia in your garden and this will attract butterflies of all types, while feeding you can get very close without disturbing them and observe them feeding out of each of the small flowers on this plant, as they need the sun as well then plant in the sunniest part of the garden www.butterflygarden.co.uk/plants/buddleia.htm
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.
Why are the mouth part of the butterfly and grasshopper different?
Grasshoppers have chewing mouth parts, meant for eating solid plant material. Butterflies have sucking mouth parts meant for sipping nectar.
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.
