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PIERCING-SUCKING MOUTHPARTS
- Piercing-sucking mouthparts are used to penetrate solid tissue and then suck up liquid food.
- Examples: Cicadas, aphids, and other bugs (order Hemiptera), sucking lice (order Phthiraptera), stable flies, and mosquitoes (order Diptera).
- Plant feeders like leafhoppers, aphids,s and scales have the same basic mouth part structure and many inject viruses and other disease-causing organisms into the plant along with their saliva.