Sentences with phrase «dragonfly on»

It would be hard to choose, but if I am chosen, I will choose... and probably be this one: Green Dragonfly on Natural Linen Patchwork Pillow

I'm a fan of the green dragonfly on the striped linen....

If I had to choose right this minute it would be between p60 Large Bird Screen w / Green Leaves and the Green Dragonfly on Natural Linen.

He tops it all off with a tip of the hat to Vincent Callebaut's Dragonfly on Roosevelt Island in New York, one of the silliest, most overwrought jump - the - shark vertical farm ideas presented anywhere, admiring its «lush, fertile interiors that function as self - contained, sustainable eco-systems, producing food for their residents.»

These three plush, handcrafted wall hangings each depict a gentle dragonfly on light green with a broad white border.

The company's new Dragonflies collars offer a masculine and feminine version of dragonflies on a background of bold stripes.

But of course, whether such a climate could support the 10 or 20 Billion humans as far as food supply would be questionable, unless we could learn a great recipe to cook those dragonflies on the barbie!

By installing a chair rail, I was able to use neutral geometric wallpaper around the base of the room, and a cheerful pattern featuring fluttering dragonflies on the upper section of the walls.

Not exact matches

I caught dragonflies with friends and waited with excitement for cartoons to come on TV.

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I also wrote about our visit, focusing more on the birds and habitat, at my other site Net Results, and about a dragonfly survey we did there on Urban Dragon Hunters.

Sandwiched between cookies and I'm ten again, sitting on my front porch with an ice cream sandwich sticking to my fingers, watching gem dragonflies glint as they flit back and forth from the driveway to the garden.

I'm inspired by the nature all around me, the beautiful, bright petals of a summer bloom, uplifting chirruping of birdsong, the hopping of a bunny, raindrops on the window panes, the beautiful iridescence of a dragonfly body, it's lacy wings — oh, you get the idea, I'm a bit of a nature daydreamer!

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Dragonflies crowding Chicagoland on their way South - WGN - TV - August 16, 2016 «Dragonflies are a necessary part of the food chain simply because they are such efficient predators.

Based on this effective model, the Dragonfly Monitoring Network was created with the aim of gaining a greater knowledge of the distribution and abundance of dragonfly and damselfly species in the Chicago region and, eventually, to expand the network across Illinois anDragonfly Monitoring Network was created with the aim of gaining a greater knowledge of the distribution and abundance of dragonfly and damselfly species in the Chicago region and, eventually, to expand the network across Illinois andragonfly and damselfly species in the Chicago region and, eventually, to expand the network across Illinois and beyond.

The mobile has a lot going on with shiny leaves that wave gently up and down while a smiling dragonfly plays peek - a-boo.

They may not be able to fathom why their new dragonfly «pet» can't live in the house or why they can't hide in «the best hiding place EVER» in a hot car on a steamy Florida afternoon.

Dragonfly is suspended on a ribbon for flying.

As I drove out of my driveway this afternoon, I glanced up and saw The Avengers racing around my neighbor's yard, intent on fighting crime (or each other or the dog or some dragonflies, lol).

Dragonfly's multiple lenses serve as checks on one another for stray light, and their internal surfaces are treated with an anti-reflective coating.

In a drawer at a museum, the butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, and other insects stand discretely apart, like jewels, each neatly labeled on its mounting pin.

Zuk's third book, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love & Language From the Insect World, published in July, is a sweeping compendium of bizarre insects — overprotective earwig parents, sperm - scooping dragonflies, risk - averse wasps — whose complex behavior often bears an uncanny resemblance to our own.

«Just as an observation, this is an intriguing result,» says Sarita Thakoor, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who works on robotic flight systems based on ideas gleaned from insects such as dragonflies and bees.

A small oil pond could trap thousands of dragonflies when they are swarming, Horváth says, and nobody has studied yet what impact that would have on the insect population.

Birds, bats, fish, and many significant wetland species, including dragonflies, feed on them.

They observed that the dragonfly that's on the offensive maneuvers so that it always appears on the same region of its rival's retina.

Dragonflies, which can reach 45 miles per hour, might take on high - speed missions.

Compared to cicada nanopillars, the ones on dragonfly wings are taller and skinnier, and they can kill gram - positive bacteria.

Dragonfly will take advantage of Titan's dense, flight - enabling atmosphere to visit multiple sites by landing on safe terrain, and then carefully navigate to more challenging landscapes.

«We could take a lander, put it on Titan, take these four measurements at one place, and significantly increase our understanding of Titan and similar moons,» said Dragonfly project manager Peter Bedini of APL.

Yet so far, the information on the diet of adult dragonflies has practically been based on individual visual observations of their prey, says Researcher and leader of the research group Kari Kaunisto from the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku.

From there, we can, for example, assess the dragonflies» impact on the populations of those insects that are harmful to humans.

Now for the first time, a research group led by Finnish scientists has established which insects the adult dragonflies prey on.

The results shed light on dragonflies» position in natural food webs with an unprecedented specificity.

The new study sheds additional light on dragonflies» role in the aerial food web, notes Professor of Insect Ecology Tomas Roslin from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, who also participated in the study.

With a suite of spectrometers, drills, and cameras, Dragonfly would split its mission between science in the air and on the ground.

The Dragonfly quad - copter would explore riverlike channels on Saturn's moon Titan, thought to be carved by methane.

«Microchip circuitry may be as invisible as the network of nerves on a dragonfly's wing,» Grossman writes.

The researchers attached reflective markers to the dragonflies and then filmed them using high - speed cameras to determine how they tracked their prey: The dragonfly relies on approaching the target from below while matching its own body alignment with its prey's.

However, today researchers report in Nature that dragonflies do rely on predictive models to intercept prey.

If the dragonfly can match its prey's body orientation, scoring a successful meal becomes as simple as closing the vertical gap and grabbing on as the target (a fruit fly in the video above) passes by.

Damselflies gravitated to the spot of the screen just on the other side of the fruit fly cluster, providing the first evidence that scents guide damselfly and dragonfly behavior, the team reports this month in the Journal of Insect Physiology.

The race is on to find massive dark galaxies that are even closer to us than Dragonfly 44, so we can look for feeble signals that may reveal a dark matter particle,» explained Professor Van Dokkum.

Dragonfly, which would make periodic flights in Titan's atmosphere to look at organics on its surface, in several locations.

A dragonfly being pursued by another took a dive and crashed to the ground, seemingly dead on the spot, before springing back to life and making a grand escape once the coast was clear.

On land, insects buzzed and crawled, including primitive dragonflies and cockroaches.

Now a team has developed a concept mission called Dragonfly proposing a dual - quadcopter that could embark upon multiple missions on Saturn's largest moon Titan.

Morgan Cable is part of the NASA team working on the proposed Dragonfly mission, which would explore Saturn's haze - covered moon using a dual - quadcopter that could fly hundreds of kilometers during a 2 - year mission.

A paper, titled «A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion and ~ 100 Globular Clusters for the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44,» describing their findings was published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters on Thursday.