E-mail: Password: Create an Account Recover password

About Authors Contacts Get involved Русская версия

show

Where do moth larvae get their water from?

Community and Forum → Insects biology and faunistics → Where do moth larvae get their water from?

Alexy, 24.10.2006 13:20

Where do moth larvae get their water from?
After all, there is no moisture in wool products, and dew does not fall on them either?

Comments

24.10.2006 14:32, Chromocenter

Water can also be obtained metabolically - this is what some desert insects do, and maybe some microscopic droplets on the wool fibers condense.

24.10.2006 20:52, Tigran Oganesov

Water is certainly metabolic. For example, when keratin is digested, a water molecule is released along with the formation of a cysteine molecule. This is how skin-eating beetles get water. Moles have the same thing, I suppose.

New comment

Note: you should have a Insecta.pro account to upload new topics and comments. Please, create an account or log in to add comments.

* Our website is multilingual. Some comments have been translated from other languages.

Random species of the website catalog

Insecta.pro: international entomological community. Terms of use and publishing policy.

Project editor in chief and administrator: Peter Khramov.

Curators: Konstantin Efetov, Vasiliy Feoktistov, Svyatoslav Knyazev, Evgeny Komarov, Stan Korb, Alexander Zhakov.

Moderators: Vasiliy Feoktistov, Evgeny Komarov, Dmitriy Pozhogin, Alexandr Zhakov.

Thanks to all authors, who publish materials on the website.

© Insects catalog Insecta.pro, 2007—2024.

Species catalog enables to sort by characteristics such as expansion, flight time, etc..

Photos of representatives Insecta.

Detailed insects classification with references list.

Few themed publications and a living blog.