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Which of the following pairs is not correct in the term of Insect and Type of mouth parts?

A. Bee ⇔ Chewing type

B. Bug ⇔ Piercing and sucking

C. Butter fly ⇔ Siphoning mouth part

D. House fly ⇔ Sponging mouth part

Answer: Option D

Solution (By Examveda Team)

A. Bee ⇔ Chewing type
The mouthparts of the honey bee belong to the chewing–lapping type, comprising the glossa, galeae and vestigial labial palp, and they aid the bee in chewing pollen and lapping nectar.
B. Bug ⇔ Piercing and sucking
Several insect orders (or more precisely families within them) have mouthparts that pierce food items to enable the sucking of internal fluids.
C. Butterfly ⇔ Siphoning mouth part
This section deals only with insects that feed by sucking fluids, as a rule without piercing their food first, and without sponging or licking. Typical examples are adult moths and butterflies.
D. House fly ⇔ Sponging mouth part is not correctly matched.
The housefly is a typical sponging insect. The labellum's surface is covered by minute food channels, formed by the interlocking elongate hypopharynx and epipharynx, forming a proboscis used to channel liquid food to the oesophagus.

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