What kind of muscles do insects have?
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Erin Albrecht
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Insects don't have solid muscles, like vertibrate animals, that contract and pull on tendons that pull on bones to make them move. Instead their muscles are fluid encased in their exoskeleton. They move by means of hydrolics, where fluid is moved from chamber to chamber causing limbs to straighten out at high presssure and fold at low pressure. This fluid is what you see smeared across your windsheild when bugs hit.
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