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The proboscis.

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Q: What is the thing that uncurls from the butterflies mouth when it sucks up nectar?
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What do butterflies use to get their food?

Butterflies use their long tongues to get the nectar out of flowers. This is called the proboscis. It is similar to a very long, thin straw and it sucks up the nectar of a flower. The proboscis is curled up into a ball shape when it isn't in use.


What do mosquitoes and butterflies use to get food?

Mosquitoes and butterflies use their proboscis to collect food. This works like a long, thin straw and sucks the nectar out of flowers. When not in use, the proboscis curls up into a ball shape.


What is the part of a butterfly that sucks nectar name?

proboscis


A black colour insect which sucks nectar from flowers?

catapillar


Is a flower affected when a bee sucks its nectar?

No, the nectar is there to bee suck, and then, the bee takes the pollen to other flowers.


How do butterfly excrete?

small butter-colored stains are butterfly excrement. Butterflies, like all insects, digest their food inside a tube (called the alimentary canal) that runs from mouth to anus. To eat, a butterfly uncoils its long snout (proboscis) and sucks in nectar. The food enters the alimentary canal, gets digested, its nutrients absorbed, and waste excreted.


What type of diet does butterfly have?

They drink nectar. There is on butterfly that sucks blood though.


How does the excretory system work for a butterfly?

small butter-colored stains are butterfly excrement. Butterflies, like all insects, digest their food inside a tube (called the alimentary canal) that runs from mouth to anus. To eat, a butterfly uncoils its long snout (proboscis) and sucks in nectar. The food enters the alimentary canal, gets digested, its nutrients absorbed, and waste excreted.


Is the butterfly sucks the nectar of flower grammatically correct?

You need an article before the singular noun "flower" (a flower, the flower). Or make it "flowers" (plural).


What does the butterfly use its probascis for?

A butterfly sticks its long, slender, proboscis into the stamen of a flower, thus accessing the nectar, and drinks it.


What does lamprey mean in Latin?

It means mouth that sucks.


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.