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The proboscis of butterfly is the long appendage on the head that works are a mouth. It is used for feeding and sucking.

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What are butterfly proboscis?

the proboscis help butterfly to sip nectars from flower


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 is the food getting of butterfly?

proboscis


What does the butterfly eat and how?

Butterfly suck the nectar sweet from flowers with its proboscis.


How long is a butterfly's proboscis?

10 cm


Are the proboscis attached the abdomen of a butterfly?

Yes


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

The part of a butterfly that sucks nectar is called a proboscis. This long, tube-like structure allows the butterfly to easily reach and consume nectar from flowers.


What is the name of a butterfly sipping tube?

The butterfly's sipping tube that coils and uncoils is called a proboscis, verterbrates, and inverterbrates can have these like the elephant. A proboscis is an appendage from the head of an animal. : )


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.


Use proboscis in a sentence?

The proboscis of the pachyderm is prodigious. (politely played!) (Practically perfect!)


What does a butterfly use the proboscis for?

Feeding is what a butterfly uses the proboscis for. Muscles operate the two inwardly concave tubes through which nectar is suctioned to sustain the butterfly during the last, imago stage in the lepidopteran life cycle.


What is that curled tube in a butterflies head called?

The curled tube located near a butterfly's head is called a "proboscis". The proboscis is similar to a drinking straw and it allows a butterfly to drink nectar from flowers.