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How Animals Heal from Injuries
Luis Jauregui
INSECTS
Phylum:Arthropod
Scientific Name: Insecta
Ants
While ants can not regenerate limbs like other animals covered so far, they can still take on a lot of damage and once that damage is too much they are cared for by their other ants. (Wilcox, 2018)
Grasshopper
A grasshopper does have the ability to regrow and antanee back. They also have the ability to heal wounds based on an experiment published by pubmed.
Can insects regenerate wings?
In general, most insects contain an exoskeleton which protects them and sometimes can regenerate their antennae or limbs however they can not regrow their wings.
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