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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.
What do butterflies eat and what mouth or body part is used to get their food?
Butterflies mainly feed on nectar from flowers, using a long tube-like mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up the liquid. Some butterflies also feed on other sources such as fruit juices, animal dung, and minerals from mud.
What do butterflies use to suck nectar?
Butterflies use a long tube-like structure called a proboscis to suck nectar from flowers. The proboscis is flexible and can be uncoiled to reach deep into the flower to access the nectar. After feeding, the proboscis coils back up under the butterfly's head.
What flowers do butterflies pollinate?
During the process of collecting nectar, some pollens sticks to their legs as well from the flowers. While collecting more nectar from another flower, these pollens are left behind which helps in pollination.
How does a butterfly gets its food?
Butterflies primarily feed on nectar from flowers through their long straw-like proboscis. They use their sense of sight and smell to locate suitable nectar sources. Some butterflies also feed on other sources such as rotting fruit, tree sap, and even mud for minerals.
Why does a grasshopper eat grass and not suck nectar?
Because it has not adapted to living on nectar, but on eating plants.
Which plants do the bees suck the nectar out of?
Flowers.
What sugary liquid do bees suck when they vist flowers?
Nectar.
Hoe does the mouthpart of a grasshopper compare with that of the butterfly?
they are both mouths and the suck things in. ex: butterflies suck nectar in and grass hopper suck things in with their mouth. They use their digestive juices to digest them. Hope this helps! :)
What do the spring azure eat?
They eat nectar plants, such as butterfly bushes, and flowers that bees suck nectar out of.
What do spring azure eat?
They eat nectar plants, such as butterfly bushes, and flowers that bees suck nectar out of.
What does the butterfly eat and how?
Butterfly suck the nectar sweet from flowers with its proboscis.
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.
What bird can suck?
Hummingbirds are able to suck nectar through their long, specialized tongues. By using their tongues as tiny pumps, they can extract the nectar from flowers and feed on it.
Can a moth eat an apple?
yes in a way. it doesnt technically actually eat the apple like a human can. they use their proboscis that they use for nectar from flowers to suck up the juices from the apples.
How do bats polinate flowers?
Only a few bats are nectar eating , when they suck nectar from flower to flower they transfer pollen for pollination .
What does a butterfly need to survive?
by eating nectar from the flowers
