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parts of which two are feelers, or labial palpi, much like the 

 maxillary palpi and also provided with taste buds at their 

 tips. With the strong, hard-toothed jaws the grasshopper 

 can bite off and crush not alone bits of soft green leaves but bits 

 of plant stalks and even woody stems. The biting type of 

 mouth-parts like the grasshopper's, although with many slight 

 differences in the make-up of the various parts, is possessed 

 by the cockroaches, crickets and katydids which belong to the 

 same insect order as the grasshoppers, and also by the beetles, 

 the dragon-flies, the white ants, and various other less familiar 

 insects. All such insects bite off and chew more or less solid 

 substances. 



Mouth -parts of Cicadas, Squash-bugs, etc. Cicadas, 

 squash-bugs, bedbugs, and many other sap-sucking and blood- 



FIG. 61. Head and prothorax of water-bug, Scrphus d Hat at us. Show- 

 ing the piercing beak and the first pair of legs which are fitted for grasping. 

 (About natural size.) 



sucking insects that belong in the same order with them 

 have a slender, sharp-pointed, more or less firm piercing beak 

 which is composed of a tubular sheath inside of which are 

 four sharp needle-like pieces which can project out of the 

 end of the sheath and be worked back and forth so as to 

 lacerate plant or animal tissue and thus cause a flow of sap or 

 blood which i,s sucked up the sheath into the mouth. The 



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