spiracles in English

noun
1
an external respiratory opening, especially each of a number of pores on the body of an insect, or each of a pair of vestigial gill slits behind the eye of a cartilaginous fish.
Catsharks have moderately large spiracles , or respiratory openings, and five pairs of gill slits.

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1. The insect breathes through small holes called spiracles.

2. 9 Insects can also lose heat by evaporation from their spiracles, but this may lead to desiccation.

3. Acarine disease is caused by the mite Acarapis woodi that gets into the tracheae of the bee through its breathing holes or spiracles in its thorax or midsection

4. The vivid coloration is very probably Aposematic too, as the adults when physically persecuted will assume a "dymantic" posture with the red or orange hindwings exposed, and produce an foul-smelling froth of blood and air from the thoracic spiracles.