stylets

Species parasitic on plants have stylets within the stoma (mouth) that can be extended outward and into the plant tissues.

Nematoda 2008

These stylets are used like straws to suck out nutritious plant juices.

Nematoda 2008

They have unique sucking mouthparts that are made up of two stylets and covered with spiny setae.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

Mouthparts are elongated into stylets modified for feeding on sponges.

Insecta (Aquatic) 2008

After a mosquito has bitten a person and withdrawn the stylets, a small area about the puncture whitens, then soon becomes pink and begins to swell, then to itch and burn.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

This parasite is equipped with stylets which pierce the skin at the seat where the mange mite penetrates the skin, and produces small red spots followed by a blister filled with serum, which ruptures, the serum drying and forming a small scab.

The Veterinarian Charles James Korinek

Tucked under their arms, they carry portfolios filled with sketches; in their hands are boxes of water-colors, pencils, and, bound together like fasces, a bundle of fine stylets with the sharp and glittering points.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Their strong, sharp, piercing stylets enable them to pierce through the toughest skin of animals and through the thin clothing of man.

Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

Finally, with her long, slender, sharp stylets, she makes a hole in your cheek or your arm, pushes in her sucking-beak, and pumps up the blood.

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

Forceps stylets should be removed from their cannulae, and the cannulae cleansed with cold water, then dried and oiled with the pipe-cleaning material.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911