DO insects sweat??

Question

So i was sitting in my car sweating i was sooo hot and there wasa fly that kept flying in my face so i dont know why but i got to pondering ...I wonder if this fly is as hot as i am... so i thought i wonder if insects sweat. Sooo... Do they??

Answer 1

no sweat glands for bugs....thats a funny thought tho

Answer 2

No. the closest an insect comes to "sweating" is ( and this only happens to  few) when they secret poison as a defense

Answer 3

No. The exoskeleton (hard outter shell) of an insect is covered by a waxy coating that makes it water proof. It's designed to keep water in to prevent dehydration.

Edit: they do not lack the ability to regulate body temperature, they just do it in different ways than us. Some insects can survive below-freezing temperatures and extreme heat. It all depends on the species and what methods for temperature regulation they possess, but ALL insects can regulate body temperature in some way. It's just, as I said, different from the way we do it. It isn't an internal thing, for the most part.

The reason you see flies dead on the window-sill is usually because they are trying too hard to get out through the closed window and end up hurting themselves or simply dying naturally (flies do not live very long anyway).

Answer 4

Only mammals sweat.

Answer 5

No, they do not. This is why you see so many flies and other insects dead on window sills. They lack the ability to regulate their own body temperature and die quickly when they are too hot or too cold.