Chewing damage from smaller beetles, such as flea beetles, occurs earlier in late spring. ... Exceptions are grasshoppers where all stages of their life cycles have chewing mouthparts.

Insects feed on a wide variety of materials and the mouthparts that allow them to do so are also diverse. Most common are mouthparts that allow the insects to chew. Insects feed on a wide variety ...

That perception might stem from cicadas’ lack of obvious chewing mouthparts, like those possessed by very hungry caterpillars, says James Hepler, a research entomologist at the U.S. Arid Land ...

Other work on how this proboscis evolved proposes that early moths started with chewing mouthparts and ate spores and pollen, says Harald W. Krenn of the University of Vienna.

Since caterpillars have chewing mouthparts, the typical damage is ragged, tattered leaves with jagged holes. Either pick the caterpillars off by hand or try a bio-pesticide containing BT (bacillus ...

This beetle has gears A species of horned beetle has a startling secret: a gearing mechanism in its mouthparts. The beetles beat us to the invention of meshed gears, possibly by millions of years.