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The labial palps secrete a mucus that entangles suspended food and nutrient particles within the water to produce a ball of food and mucus called a bolus. Afterwards, cilia on the palps direct the bolus into the mouth.
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Long hairy movable mouthpart that helps to collect nectar. ... Hard corneous mouthpart serving as a pincer to grasp food; it also serves to shape the wax used to build cells. ... Moveable mouthpart with a palp; it is located beneath the mandibles and is used to masticate food.
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in the labial palp of Lepidoptera during pupal development. Jong-Kyoo Lee 1, Chang-Whan Kim ... the labial palp. Proximally it is attached to the primordium ...
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www.springerlink.com/index/M8615H7177X206TM.pdf
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Sensory structures on the maxillary and labial palps of Supella longipalpa (Dictyoptera : Blattellidae) were examined by light, scanning, and transmission ...
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3. Particles settling on the ctenidium are either rejected or carried in mucus to the labial palpi where the volume of mucus is reduced, and the concentrated food-mucus mass passed to the mouth.
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www.biolbull.org/cgi/content/abstract/146/1/1
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Observation of the labial palpi by means of a cystoscope shows that in C. gigas and other species the two palp lamellae are always closely appressed. ...
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The Medscape Journal ... Allergy & Clinical Immunology ... Diabetes & Endocrinology...
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www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/6235687
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labial palp (plural labial palps) ... insect appendage for finding food: either of a pair of slender appendages extending from the lower lip labium of an insect and used for finding and assessing food; ... Search for "labial palp" in all of MSN Encarta...
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labial nerves, anterior; labial nerves, anterior; labial nerves, anterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial nerves, posterior; labial notch; labial notch; labial notch; labial notch; labial palp; labial papilla;
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