The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.

These are the mouthparts of two different kinds of ticks. The mouthpart is what a tick uses to bite and latch onto you or your pets. Each mouthpart has a pair of hooked “teeth” for piercing the skin ...

Hemipteran insects, commonly known as true bugs, exhibit a fascinating diversity in their sensory structures and mouthpart morphology. These adaptations are crucial for their survival, allowing ...

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

When we had that really, really cold weather recently I found dead marmorated stink bugs in some rooms. The downstairs, where we have some gas space heaters, was not over 52 degrees for days, and the ...