KIDS QUIZ
INSECTS AND BUGS
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Question
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Chewing Mouthparts
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Sponging Mouthparts
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Piercing Mouthparts
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Sucking Mouthparts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Housefly mouthparts are of the sponging and sucking variety and are employed to suck on liquid food. It also has an organ designed for a liquid diet, the proboscis, which resembles a tube. House flies have mouthparts that can sponge and suck.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hint: Sponging is a mode of nutrition, in which insect secrete saliva over the food and dissolved food is drawn up into the mouth in solution form.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sponging type mouth part consists of labrum-epipharynx, maxillae, labium and hypopharynx. These mouthparts are adapted for sucking up liquid or semiliquid food and are seen commonly in houseflies and some other flies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Well, flies have a mouth type called sponging.