AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The mouthparts of butterfly and moths are siphoning and sucking type. These mouthparts are best suited to draw nectar from the flowers. Siphoning-sucking mouthparts are mostly limited to adult butterflies and moths (Order Lepidoptera). Immature moths and butterflies have chewing mouthparts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Butterflies have lapping mouthparts. Butterfly mouthparts are so long that they keep them rolled up under their head until they are ready to eat. Other insects have sucking mouthparts. Sucking mouthparts have the same parts as chewing mouthparts, they are just adapted for sucking the juices of plants or blood.

Detailed explanation-3: -The tongue is actually a tube, and it is able to extend and siphon water and nectar into the butterfly’s digestive system. These type of mouthparts, called “siphoning, ” are unique to moths and butterflies.

Detailed explanation-4: -In all “primitive” insects, the mouthparts are adapted for grinding, chewing, pinching, or crushing bits of solid food. These are known as “mandibulate” mouthparts because they feature prominent chewing mandibles.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chewing-lapping insects, such as wasps and bees, possess toothless mandibles for chewing solid materials and a specialized tongue for lapping up fluids. Butterflies and moths are siphoning type insects that use a coiled proboscis for sucking nectar from flowers.