How do the mouthparts differ among grasshoppers, butterflies, flies, and true bugs?
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Erin Albrecht
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A SUMMARY: grasshoppers:"munching" mouthparts for chopping and chewing leaves. butterflies: like a long drinking straw for sucking nectar flies: like a two lobed sponge (except for mosquitoes, gnats or similar, where its more like a hypodermic syringe. Most flies spit on their food and then suck up the partly digested mush. true bugs: like a lancet to pierce skin or plants and suck up the juices If this is for a school exam you will have to include drawings
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