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Honey bees have a combined mouth parts than can both chew and suck (whereas grasshoppers can chew and moth can suck, but not both). This is accomplished by having both mandibles and a proboscis. The mandibles are the paired "teeth" that can be open and closed to chew wood, manipulate wax, cleaning other bees, and biting other workers or pests (mites). The proboscis is mainly used for sucking in liquids such as nectar, water and honey inside the hive, for exchanging food with other bees (trophallaxis), and also for removing water from nectar. The workers can put a droplet of nectar between the proboscis and the rest of the mouth parts to increase the surface area, and slowly moving the proboscis back and forth.

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The Mandible, Labrum, Hypopharnx, Molars, and Incisors are all the mouth parts involved with chewing in the insects with chewing mouth types.

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straw like sucking mouthparts

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LADY BUGS HAVE BITTING CHEWING MOUTHS.

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Of course.

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