Sentences with phrase «semporna proboscis»

UC Irvine's website features a nice look at Peter's transformation over the years — what I like about the current mascot is that he's got the «bicep - having, uniform - wearing anthropomorphic animal» thing that 99.9 percent of college use, but also is an anteater with a silly neck and huge proboscis.

The front end of these animals is shaped like an acorn, and it consists of a proboscis and collar that it likely uses to burrow.

Is it on a flower sucking up sweet nectar with its tonguelike proboscis?

The strange, 300 million - year - old Tully monster, with its jointed proboscis and dorsal eye bar, is known from fossils found only in northeastern Illinois

But when you can unfurl a 14 - inch long proboscis, who cares?

But other scales researchers inspected were hollow with markings that distinctly resemble those of a living class of the insects that uses its proboscis to eat.

So, what good was a proboscis if not for slurping up flowers» sugary goodness?

Work at Chicago's Field Museum eventually revealed the creature, known as the Tully Monster, was a bizarre 300 million - year - old animal that fed through a toothy proboscis.

Despite being an iconic image — a fossil with a striped body, large tail, a pair of stalks terminating in dark, oval - shaped «blobs» and a large elephant trunk - like proboscis at the head end which has a pincer - like claw filled with teeth — it is a complete mystery as to what kind of extinct animal it was.

Famously, Charles Darwin predicted that there must have been moths with exceedingly long proboscises in Madagascar after he saw the orchids from that island with deeply recessed nectar.

But they also have a bizarre way of ingesting: an axial proboscis (pictured at right) that researchers liken to a retractable elephant trunk.

The insects are attracted to odors that had been applied on filter paper and, depending on the odor, unroll their proboscis and try to drink nectar or bend their abdomen and lay eggs on the paper.

Forty years later, a night - flying subspecies of moth with a nearly foot - long proboscis was found feeding from the flower.

Interpreting the scales as a sign of an early moth proboscis is «possible,» says taxonomist Erik van Nieukerken of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose specialties include early moths.

How can a tube as flimsy as a mosquito's proboscis be stiff enough to act as a hollow boring tool?

New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera).

Other work on how this proboscis evolved proposes that early moths started with chewing mouthparts and ate spores and pollen, says Harald W. Krenn of the University of Vienna.

The researchers made the porous proboscis to show that a new technique can better control minute holes in polymer foams, materials akin to Styrofoam.

McAlister shows off the Diptera collection like an adoring parent: the lovely bee flies; the curious hairy legs of the robber fly; the amazing eyes of the stalk - eyed flies; the mosquito with feathered mid-legs that look like legwarmers; U.K. crane flies with wide wingspans and long, delicate legs; the horse fly with a 2 - inch - long proboscis; the bot flies that lay their eggs on mosquitoes for transportation.

She and her colleagues then exposed the stocking to caged mosquitoes, allowing them to land on it and poke it with their proboscises in a vain attempt to feed.

Earlier studies indicated that the proboscis of most insects can only detect basic taste categories such as sweet or bitter.

But in all bees previously studied, the proboscis isn't used for sucking.

Only when flowers produced volatiles did the moths stay long enough to drink nectar, and only when they stayed long enough did they deliver enough pollen on their proboscis to successfully pollinate other scenting flowers.

(Euglossa imperialis's proboscis is longer than its body.)

The insect must decide which of the two tube endings it will enter with its tongue, the so - called proboscis (see graphic).

All bees have a tubelike proboscis, says evolutionary biologist Brendan Borrell of the University of California, Berkeley.

When scrutinizing electron microscopic images of the tip of the proboscis, the researchers discovered a sensillum, a sensory hair previously unknown in Manduca sexta.

Borrell thinks the orchid bees and their flowers may have evolved hand - in - hand, with the flowers getting deeper with runnier nectar, and the bees evolving longer proboscises.

This choice test revealed that the moth's proboscis remained much longer in the part of the «flower» that smelled than in the other part.

These findings show that the proboscis plays a much more important role in olfaction than previously thought.

The researchers showed that floral scent is crucial for successful pollination: Manduca sexta hawk moths, the most important pollinators of the wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata, use their proboscis to smell the floral volatiles when they visit flowers.

«Hawk moths have second nose for evaluating flowers: Using olfactory neurons on their proboscis, moths weigh which flowers to visit.»

Apparently, the hawk moth is able to smell floral scent with the tip of its tongue, Haverkamp, one of the first authors of the study, notes this surprising result: «Our study shows that the function of the proboscis is much more complex than was previously thought.

The olfactory neurons involved in the perception of these volatiles have now been discovered to be located on the Manduca proboscis.

«Single Sensillum Recording,» a method which measures the response of single sensory hairs to certain odors, revealed that the proboscis sensillum responds to floral volatiles.

For this particular research problem they developed a so - called y - maze experiment, a proboscis choice test in which a y - shaped tube system is used as an extension of the flower's corolla.

Even if you've never stepped into a boxing ring, you know that almost any bump or blow can do serious damage to the proboscis, causing immediate bleeding and agonizing pain and eventually turning even a modest button nose into something closer to a buttonhook.

Flies were drawn to fizzing beer or dry ice dissolved in water, which excite a special class of taste receptors in the fly proboscis, but had no desire for flat soda and avoided gaseous CO2.

A FLY lands on your arm, swivels its head and raises its forelimbs to clean its long, blood - sucking proboscis.

Frenzied by the smell of blood, the females stab their proboscises through the skin, sometimes two or three times.

All species of the tubular animals, which can reach lengths of 39 cm, have an extensible mouth called a proboscis that is lined with sharp hooks, teeth, and spines.

The proboscis monkey lives near rivers and is prone to splashing about in water — and can even dive for up to 20 metres at a time

Thanks to its adaptations, proboscis monkeys can skilfully wade through their swampy habitat and dog paddle like a pro, says Ramesh Boonratana of Mahidol University International College in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.

The unusual creatures of Antarctica's Southern Ocean are all legs and no body, with a long proboscis to suck up their soft - bodied prey, such as jellyfish

«Blood wells up in the groove and it acts like a sponge, drawing blood up into the many channels that drain off into the proboscis.»

The prizewinning electron micrograph, taken by Frank Page of the University of Loughborough, shows the tip of the fly's proboscis.

Harding has now dispelled some of the myths about the proboscis monkey's strange anatomy and behaviour.

It has a 12 - inch long nectary — there is a tube where the nectar accumulates — and he predicts that there is a moth, thinks it has to be [a] moth with a very long proboscis basically like a straw that would be, maybe 11 inches long.

A hawk moth (Manduca sexta) uses its eight - centimeter - long proboscis to drink nectar from a flower of Nicotiana alata, a species of wild tobacco also called jasmine or winged tobacco.

They were able to show that Manduca sexta moths acquired the highest energy gain when they visited flowers that matched the length of their proboscis.