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Mouth types
  • Chewing -labrum, mandibles, maxillae, labium
  • Chewing /Lapping - honeybee labrum, mandibles proboscis - maxillae, labium, tongue ends in a flabellum
  • Piercing/sucking - beak or proboscis or rostrum
  • Cutting/sponging - fleshy labellum
  • Sponging - haustellum, labellum
  • Siphoning coiled proboscis, galeae
  • Sulcate - curved sickle-like jaws with a groove to direct body joices to prey to the mouth of the predator
Chewing - Ground beetle - Calosoma sp.Chewing /Lapping - Valley carpenter bee - Xylocopa varipunctaPiercing/ sucking beak - Yellow-bellied bee assassin - Apiomerus flaviventrisPiercing/ sucking beak - Assassin bug - Zelus tetracanthusPiercing/ sucking beak - Southern green stink bug - Nezara viridulaRed bug - Scantius aegyptiusSponging - Greenbottle fly - Lucilia sericataSiphoning coiled proboscis -Cabbage white - Artogeia rapaeSiphoning uncoiled proboscis to sip nectar - California dogface - Zerene eurydiceSulcate - curved sickle-like jaws - Lacewing - Unidentified sp.
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