Sentences with phrase «own mouthparts»

Mosquitoes locate their hosts using receptors on their antennae and mouthparts that pick up on cues that hosts emit, such as CO2 and water vapor in our breath, and chemicals in our sweat such as lactic acid, butyric acid and fatty acids.

Remove gills, eyes, mouthparts, and tail section of fresh crabs, or thaw frozen crabs.

The castor bean tick Ixodes ricinus, a European species that carries Lyme disease, faces an engineering problem: Its needlelike mouthparts are good at piercing but useless for hanging on during long periods of feeding.

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

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.

The larvae have a toughened head capsule, chewing mouthparts, and a soft body, that may have hair - like or other projections, 3 pairs of true legs, and additional prolegs (up to 5 pairs).

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

Bees don't have the mouthpart sensitivity to taste — and thus can't avoid — nectar tainted with neonicotinoid pesticides, new lab tests indicate.

ANT RX A Matabele ant from Africa uses her mouthparts to treat a nest mate's wounded leg in a prompt and effective insect version of health care.

For injured raiders that do get home, another ant — usually not the carrier — steps in to treat the wound by repeatedly moving her mouthparts over it.

After the mosquito's needlelike snout pierces the mouse's skin, the mouthpart becomes flexible and can be seen snaking between cells until it locates a blood vessel.

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.

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.

The notion that the moth mouthparts arose before a big floral takeover sounds plausible to paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Drinking - straw mouthparts had evolved in at least three other big insect groups (dipteran flies, lacewings and scorpionflies) somewhat before the full floral evolutionary extravaganza.

Look closely as they gently curl and uncoil their mouthparts around food, and you will sense that they are not just eating but enjoying their meal.

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

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.

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.

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.

Barely visible to the naked eye, Symbion pandora — the species name — seems to live exclusively on the mouthparts of a Norwegian lobster, which it clings to with an adhesive disk.

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

They clamped onto their victims with their mouthparts and rarely let go, often eating the entire body and in any case slicing open the body wall.

Their jaws, or chelicerae, are the largest for body size among the group of animals that possess these specialized mouthparts — including horseshoe crabs, sea spiders, and arachnids — and bear most of the structures used for their classification.

What makes D. villosus such a lethal predator may be its mouthparts, which are much larger and more powerful than those of G. duebeni.

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

Kukalova - Peck pointed out that the gliding theory not only lacked practicality — until their wings grew long enough to glide, bugs who jumped out of trees would have fallen on their mouthparts — but there was no fossil evidence to support it.

It is distinct with a set of morphological features including its mouthparts and coloration.

«The front half evolved first; the limbs and mouthparts are very close to true spiders.

As saliva hangs on a fly's mouthparts, the droplet starts to lose some of its heat to the air around it.

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

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

This toe - winged beetle had pollinaria from an orchid described as Annulites mexicana attached to its mouthparts.

The black arrow points to pollinia attached to the beetle's mouthparts.

The Russians, arguing that some of the insects» mouthparts are adapted to pollen eating, contend that they consumed it deliberately.

Like a cute little toddler, it will sometimes approach one of its parents, nuzzling their mouthparts with its head while stroking them with its legs.

The tadpoles of the Indian Purple frog retain their clinging - mouthparts for an unusually long time, until their limbs are fully ready to dig, and they only finalize the transition to adulthood once resting underground.

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

Adults and nymphs pierce the phloem and suck out soft tissue with their mouthparts.

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

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

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 only black widow species that regularly eats its mates is the southern black widow, Latrodectus mactans — though the related Australian redback spider Latrodectus hasselti also does it, with the male somersaulting gently into the female's mouthparts, apparently on purpose.

The worker bee then adds fatty acids from glands in her mouthparts, which take the pH to around 4.

While using their pedipalps — the appendages next to their mouthparts — to vibrate dead leaves, they also create an audible thrumming sound.

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

Computed tomography unlocked the mystery by allowing Garwood and his colleagues to peer inside the rock at the arachnid's walking legs and mouthparts, which are important for identifying the genus and species of this kind of creature.

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

Carolin Haug, LMU Munich, said: «T. brandonensis was probably an actively hunting predator, which caught the prey with its front claws and crushed it into smaller pieces with the protrusions nearer its mouthparts.»