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Respiratory Grasshopper System Internal Surface Air Enters Spiracles

Front Grasshopper Respiratory System
Back - internal respiratory surface
- air enters through spiracles
- travels through tracheal tubes, into hemocoels/sinuses (where diffusion starts)
- arthropods & some mollusks: oxygen carried by hemocyanin

Tags: chapter_14, grasshopper

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