Butterfly proboscis to sip cells Date: November 25, 2009 Source: American Institute of Physics Summary: A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender and used for sipping -- but it ...

Butterfly beak. Moth mouthpiece. Lepidoptera lips. Call it whatever you want, the proboscis is a big deal. It's a defining feature of many moths and butterflies – the long, flexible mouthpiece ...

Though proboscis geometry did not show a trend that matched the evolutionary relationships among the studied species, it was discovered that the Golden Ratio did relate to butterfly feeding habits ...

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of ...

A butterfly's proboscis is surprisingly long. The majority are up to one and a half times the length of the butterfly's body. This length allows them to extend it into different-shaped flowers to ...

When a butterfly emerges from its chrysalis, one of the first things it must do is assemble its mouthparts. Butterflies, and most nectar-feeding insects, use a long tube called a proboscis to feed.

There are also sensory hairs (3) lining the proboscis; these contain odorant receptors, which help the insect detect smells and thus find food. The large orb in the top right corner is the butterfly’s ...

CLEMSON — A pair of Clemson University scientists has spent the past decade exploring the unique intricacies of a naturally engineered feeding tube that butterflies and other insects have been ...

Larvae enter the pupa without a proboscis and emerge as a butterfly with one. Understanding what happens in the pupa could help develop the probes, Adler said.

Could the butterfly proboscis, which after all has been working on the same problem of transporting liquids for more than 130 million years of evolution, have any clever solutions to offer?

A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University. He hopes to borrow ...