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Reasons for the dominance of insects over other animals
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BENEFICIAL AND HARMFUL EFFECTS OF INSECTS
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RASPING AND SUCKING MOUTH PARTS

  • Are found in thrips (Thysanoptera).
  • The right mandible of thrips is reduced– and in some species completely absent.
  • This beak contains the maxillae, hypopharynx, and the left mandible; together this structure forms a stylet.
  • Thrips use the beak to rasp host tissues and take up liquid food through stylet.
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