2006-08-22 12:25:57 · 24 answers · asked by Jenifer S 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Yes, insects breathe. All insects require oxygen, just as you, to survive. They don't, however, have lungs like yours.
2006-08-22 12:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by crissyll22 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Insects don't breathe in the sense that they inhale through their mouths into their lungs. They don't have lungs.
However they do take in air and extract oxygen and expel out carbon dioxide. They do this through small openings in their exoskeleton called spiracles. The spiracles connect to a system of tubes called the trachea (just like our trachea, which connects our mouth to our lungs). Insects inhale by expanding the body, with the entire exoskeleton acting like the human diaphragm to draw in air.
Insects that live under water breathe like fish, using gills to extract oxygen from the water. They remove dissolved oxygen, not separate water into its component oxygen and hydrogren, by the way.
2006-08-22 19:56:09 · answer #2 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bugs indeed do breathe, all organisms require an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Bugs, as opposed to mammals and others, respire through specialized respiratory structures known as spiracles. While they do not have lungs such as we do, they use this alternative system to exchange gases just as we do with our lungs.
2006-08-22 21:19:03 · answer #3 · answered by Gene Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
99.9 % of all living things take in oxygen (respirate)
There are some organisms that survive without oxygen but very few and they are like one celled organisms.
Some insects, like crickets, have like these air vents that help them to breathe. Not sure about how other insects take in oxygen.
2006-08-22 19:28:35 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dear lord. Everything breathes! Including plants, they expel oxygen and take in carbon monoxide. That's why it's good to be around trees, they are the opposite of us!
2006-08-22 19:27:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes! I did a science expirament when I was 10, put them in a glass and fill it up with wather, after 5 to 10 minutes they will die. This works on Bees, flys, moths, ant and many others I am sure...
2006-08-22 19:28:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2006-08-22 19:30:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yup
ants can hold their breath for 7 days under water
2006-08-22 19:30:32 · answer #8 · answered by mac 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, but not like you or I breathe
2006-08-22 19:27:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
every living thing gives breath, therefore breathes...so yes
2006-08-22 19:27:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋