hair-like bristles mostly used for locomotion.
The hair that is located on your crabs legs and near its mouth. These hairs are simply extensions of the crabs outer body covering and will be shed during a molt.
( see Earthworm Anatomy) The bristles (or hairs) that are found on an earthworm’s body. They help the earthworm to move and act to sense the environment.
Hairs or bristles that are hollow structures developed as extensions of the insect epidermis.
often numerous, covering spider body and legs at varying densities; may be colored, iridescent (ie: jumping spider); serve numerous functions in various spider groups; spiders have different types of tactile setae to sense vibrations and sound; taste setae are on tips of legs; urticating setae in tarantulas are used for defense; serrated bristles in comb-footed spiders draw out sticky silk; plumose setae in fishing spiders trap around abdomen
hairs found on caterpillars.
elongate bristle-like mandible of a vibraculum.
(singular seta) Tactile setae are long hairs that butterflies and moths use to sense touch. These hairs are attached to nerve cells, and relay information about touch to the insect's brain. Setae grow through holes in the pinaculum of the exoskeleton.