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Reasons for the dominance of insects over other animals
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Learn Introductory Entomology with Rahul
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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.

 

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