Sentences with word «mouthparts»

They live on the hairy mouthparts of Norway lobsters, with tens or even hundreds per lobster.

Fleas are wingless insects with mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and sucking the blood of their hosts.

They move about on their host and finally clamp down in a suitable place, plunging down their needle - like mouthparts.

by inserting their sharp mouthparts into the skin, and begin feeding on your dog's blood.

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«These long mouthparts indicate that they were only adapted to feed from long, tubular floral types,» he says.

They home in on the scent of human breath and sweat and swiftly insert their needlelike mouthparts into the target's skin.

That raises the question of whether the drinking - straw mouthparts evolved long before the flower nectar many drink today.

A new look at a tick's mouthparts shows how the arachnid saws its way through skin and hangs on for up to a week.

Other work on how this proboscis evolved proposes that early moths started with chewing mouthparts and ate spores and pollen, says Harald W. Krenn of the University of Vienna.

There are other possibilities, too, for imagining ancient moth mouthparts, he cautions.

In the times of the ancient scales, generally hot and dry conditions might have favored mouthparts specialized for drinking whatever liquids were to be found, the researchers propose.

Based on their location, we can now say that the biting mouthparts in spiders and their relatives evolved from these appendages.»

Pelican spiders use their elongated mouthparts — shown protruding from the right side of the pictured spider's «head» — to snatch unsuspecting spiders and hold them at a distance while they inject venom and wait for them to die.

Compression fossils reveal that these Mesozoic insects with serrated mouthparts were 10 times bigger than today's fleas, but lacked jumping legs

The males of this spider species evolved a trick to make females more likely to let them father their offspring — tickling them with hairy mouthparts

Males will vary their fruit diet on occasion by driving their hardened, fruit - piercing mouthparts into mammals, such as cattle, tapirs and even elephants and humans, for a drink of fresh blood.

Now, samples of amber from Myanmar have caught the critters with their spiny mouthparts inside the cookie jar.

The limbs and mouthparts mesh together forming a basket to scoop sand up and carry it away from the excavation.

Unlike a mosquito, however, it is not the kissing bug's suction mouthparts that transmit disease — it is its feces that teem with T. cruzi.

Two other kinds of caterpillar noises involve mouthparts rubbing against each other.

No recognizable mouthparts appeared in the sediment.

Nectar is a primary food source for many animals but a few, including hummingbirds, honey eaters and sun birds and bats, possess mouthparts specifically designed to slurp up the sweet liquid found in flowers.

Comparing the ridges and inner structure of the scales with those from modern insects suggests the fossils came from the evolutionary branch of insects that today gives us moths and butterflies with nectar - sipping mouthparts.

Spiders don't often resemble birds, but pelican spiders — which use beaklike mouthparts to spear other arachnids — are a notable exception.

The young parasitoid larvae then hitchhike in the ants» mouthparts until they are eventually transferred, possibly as potential food, to the ant larvae in the nest.

The arachnid turned out to have had spiderlike mouthparts and legs.

Not all cone snails incorporate insulin into their venom cocktail, wonderfully known as nirvana cabal; the hormone was found only in a subset of the animals that hunt with a netting strategy that relies on snaring fish in their large, gaping mouthparts.

It has limb proportions and mouthparts very similar to those of true spiders, lending it the spooky appearance that's so disturbing to arachnophobes.

Then the beetle presses its own mouthparts on those of the ant, encouraging it to regurgitate a big drop of food.

Camel spider (Arachnida, Solifugae) The world's fastest moving arachnid packs no venom at all, relying on its massive mouthparts to kill insects mechanically.

Then, it secreted formic acid onto its mandibles (pincerlike mouthparts).

And by the time the pale youngsters hatch, liquefied gut — suitable for baby mouthparts — is building up in her abdomen.

It is advisable to remove any detached mouthparts and if necessary your veterinary surgeon should be consulted.

Grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible and pull it free, making sure to remove the imbedded mouthparts as well.

Do not pull the tick by the body as this may release bacteria into the bloodstream and leave the head and mouthparts still in the skin.

Flea is the common name for insects of the order Siphonaptera which are wingless insects whose mouthparts are adapted for piercing skin and sucking blood.

At this point, they make their way to the mosquito's mouthparts where they can be transmitted when the mosquito bites another dog.

The mosquito's mouthparts pass the infective larvae to your dog's skin, where they burrow into the tissue through the bite wound.2 The larvae begin to mature within three days and continue migrating through your dog's tissue for several weeks.2

If some of the tick's mouthparts remain accidentally attached to your dog after your removal attempt, this is not an urgent problem.

The L3 larvae are deposited into the salivary bleb that surrounds the mosquito's mouthparts during feeding.

Fleas have piercing, sucking mouthparts that they insert through the skin to obtain blood meals.

The memo must have developed a durable crust, leaving idle sponging mouthparts to find other amusement.

Obst and Funch (2003) reported S. pandora population densities ranging from fewer than 100 to more than 500 feeding stages per mouthpart.

The researchers analyzed strange eel - like creatures known as conodonts, which are known mainly by their elaborate mouthparts.

The chelicerae (the spider's main mouthparts) are typically large and thick with a conspicuous boss (a reinforced area at the edge of the cheliceral base where it meets the cephalothorax).

A tick's sophisticated weaponry doesn't end with its needle - like mouthparts, capable of piercing through human skin and inflicting itchy agony.

The four candidates the team found were all active in the antennae and mouthparts of the mosquito, where its sense of smell resides.