Question

Beetles: Why is the direction that the antennae of beetles point in, significant?

Thanks!

Answer 1

beetles have most of their sensories in thier antenae. If it was in a different direction, they would lose some of their sensories.

Answer 2

Since this is not my area of expertise, I searched Google under the key words "<I>antennae beetle</I>" to get these possible sources:

http://www.cirrusimage.com/beetles.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761555773_2/beetle.html
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-beetle.html
http://www.eau.ee/~agronomy/vol012/Ploomi.pdf

In the future, you can find the information you desire more quickly, if you use appropriate key words to do your own search.

I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.