Insect Leg Modifications

Cockroach 🪳

• Raptorial legs

• Fossorial legs

• Cursorial legs

• Natatorial legs

Preying mantis

• Basket like

• Clasping legs

• Sticking legs

• Raptorial legs

Which insects have modified legs for jumping?

• Bees

• Grasshoppers

• Ants

• Butterflies

Water beetle (hind legs)

• Natatorial legs

• Pseudo legs

• Saltatorial legs

• Scansorial legs

Grasshopper (Hind legs)

• Ambulatorial legs

• Saltatorial legs

• Raptorial legs

• Fossorial legs

Fore legs of honey bees are used as

• Pollen brush

• Eye brush

• Pollen basket

• Antenna cleaners

Ambulatorial legs

• Hind and mid legs of water beetle

• Fore and mid legs of preying mantis

• Fore and mid legs of grasshopper

• Fore legs of water beetle

Which insects have legs adapted for grasping prey?

• Butterflies

• Beetles

• Praying mantises

• Ants

Dragon fly

• Sticking legs

• Pro legs

• Clasping legs

• Basket like legs

Housefly

• Fossorial legs

• Scansorial legs

• Sticking legs

• Basket like legs