Sentences with phrase «piercing mouthparts»

Bird mites are very tiny parasites with a flattened body and piercing mouthparts that allow them to take blood from birds.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Eventually, the spiderlings pierce her abdomen with their mouthparts.

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.

A tick's sharp mouthparts (chelicerae and the pedipalps) pierce the skin, and a feeding tube (hypostome) inserts into the host to extract blood.

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