Describe the strategies that some aquatic insects, such as mosquito larvae and dipteran larvae, use to breathe air. What is the limitation of these strategies?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Mosquito larvae breathe air through specialized structures that act as siphons. The mosquito larvae must stay close to the water's surface with their siphons, which must protrude above the surface of the water for the larvae to breathe air. Dipteran larvae utilize a slightly different strategy; they have a pointed abdominal siphon, which they use to puncture the surface of aquatic plants and obtain oxygen that is produced by photosynthesis. The limitation for both these insect larvae is that they cannot venture far from an air source.
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