antennae

     

Antenna (plural antennae or antennas) may refer to:

Trivia about antennae

  • Most butterflies need them to smell; many humans use them to hear radio waves
  • Ants detect odors with sensors on these
  • An insect uses this appendage to smell and feel and in some instances, to taste and hear
  • A luna moth's are feathered, a june bug's leaflike, & a cockroach's are feelers
  • Female butterflies & moths release pheromones to attract males, who use these organs to "smell" the chemicals
  • Like many insects, prawns also feature pairs of these long, thin sensory organs on their heads
  • An insect's antenna
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Haleakala Observatory in Maui, Hawaii.) Astronomers at Haleakala are using the faulkes telescope north to observe the ongoing gigantic collision of two galaxies that gets this name from the long star trails that extend to each side, like sensory organs from the head of an insect
  • These segmented sensory appendages on the heads of insects are thought to be touch & smell receptors

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