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Animals that only eat plants are normally referred to as herbivores. Grasshoppers are among animals that eat plants only and that is why they are called herbivores.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 8y agoBecause they prefer a diet of plant material. They don't have the physical 'tools' to suck nectar - but they do have strong jaws for cutting.
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Can butterflies chew their food?
Butterflies do not chew their food, but eat by their proboscis or tongue. The proboscis helps the butterflies to suck the nectar from flowers.
What is a butterflies feeding method?
A butterfly uses their tongues when feeding. Their tongues act much the same way as a straw and they use their tongues to suck nectar from flowers.
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?
they eat nectar and they have mouths like people.
How does a butterfly gets its food?
pee pee they use its intents to suck pee pee
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.
What do spring azure eat?
They eat nectar plants, such as butterfly bushes, and flowers that bees suck nectar out of.
What do the 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.
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! :)
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.
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
Do grasshoppers eat ferns?
no
