stylet
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Similar to a hypodermic needle, a nematode uses its stylet to pierce cells and pull out food -- in this case from the pseudoscorpion's hypodermis, part of the outer covering known as the integument.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2024
This was possible because the white stylet had no copper and therefore no electrical conductivity to be impeded by paring down the receiver in the first place.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Mosquitoes then pierce this plastic with their needlelike proboscis called a stylet.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2020
These tardigrades feed on plants and small animals like rotifers, nematodes or even other tardigrades by piercing them with a needle-like stylet and and drinking the contents.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 16, 2013
The male palpal organs show a very long stylet curved over two times around the bulb.
From New West Indian Spiders Bulletin of the AMNH, Vol. XXXIII, Art. XLI, pp. 639-642 by Nathan Banks
