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Do any insects fart or belch?

I was just looking at the election coverage and started wondering whether insects fart or belch. .

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Yes, they do. At least some arthropods have symbiotic microorganisms that live in their guts and are essential for breaking down food compounds, especially those from plant matter. Among the by-products of these chemical transformations there is methane, the infamous swamp gas... and it goes out the body of the arthropod as 'farts'.

    However, it's interesting to know that not all terrestrial arthropods emit methane.

    Check this research article from 1994.

    http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/91/12/5441

    The authors surveyed a wide variety of arthropods and only found methane emmissions in Diplopoda (millipedes),

    Blattaria (cockroaches), Isoptera (termites), and Cetonidae (flower beetles). It's good to know that we can't "blame the bugs" in general for suspicious smells!

    Source(s): Another answer on here...
  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    fart

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