Sentences with phrase «sucking proboscis»
A FLY lands on your arm, swivels its head and raises its forelimbs to clean its long, blood - sucking proboscis.
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Is it on a flower sucking up sweet nectar with its tonguelike proboscis?
But in all bees previously studied, the proboscis isn't used for sucking.
The unusual creatures of Antarctica's Southern Ocean are all legs and no body, with a long proboscis to suck up their soft - bodied prey, such as jellyfish
To mimic the powerful proboscis, the researchers built a tiny array of cone - shaped microneedles with a stiff center made of some polystyrene and an outer layer with some polyacrylic acid mixed in (the same stuff that sucks up liquid in disposable baby diapers).
«It sticks its proboscis into the skin and sucks blood.