Insects eat many things. Some eat wood, meat, blood, bones, clothes, paper and almost anything you can think of. Insects can be divided into the chewers like the beetle, the suckers like the mosquito, and the moppers like the housefly.
The chewers have jaws for biting, they may bite flowers leaves or meat. The suckers have a thin tube instead of the biting jaws. When a mosquito bites you, it pushes its tube into your skin and sucks up some blood. When you drink orange juice with a straw, you are feeding in the same way as a mosquito.
A housefly is a mopper, it touches its food with a soft pad. Under this pad are a number of small openings that lead into the fly’s food channels. The housefly mops up its food but it cannot mop up solid food. To dissolve its food the fly puts some liquid on it before it can suck it up.© 2006 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
