Sentences with phrase «by praying mantises»

Consequently, hummingbirds make up the vast majority of birds killed by praying mantises, with the Ruby - throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) being a particularly frequent victim.

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In recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canada.

Behind the praying mantis was a geodesic dome the size of a small house, illuminated from within by colored lights.

The beautiful eighteenth - century costumes and setting seduce us into viewing these affairs with a kind of horrified detachment, as though we were watching a «Nature» film on PBS showing the praying mantis being devoured by his mate in the act of copulation.

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Liturgusa krattorum, a new species of praying mantis discovered by Dr. Gavin Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, is named for Martin and Chris Kratt of the television show Wild Kratts.

Praying mantises bring new meaning to the phrase «dinner date» — this luckless male is being eaten alive by the female he is mating with

A new study by the zoologists Martin Nyffeler (University of Basel), Mike Maxwell (National University, La Jolla, California), and James Van Remsen (Louisiana State University) now shows that praying mantises all over the world also kill and eat small birds.

However, more than 70 percent were reported in the US, where praying mantises often capture birds at hummingbird feeders or plants pollinated by hummingbirds in house gardens.

A study by zoologists from Switzerland and the US shows: praying mantises all over the globe also include birds in their diet.

The male praying mantis is the poster child for sexual cannibalism, famously having its head bitten off by the female.

The unicorn beetle in the picture, along with a black widow spider, praying mantis, scorpion and carpenter ant, are animated robots designed by the creators of ET.

My posture, compromised by the last three years sitting at my computer and writing in praying mantis position, has been vastly improved.

Disgust, a green, judgmental mean girl voiced by Mindy Kaling, Fear, a skittish praying mantis of a figure (Bill Hader), and Anger, a literal hothead of a burning ember in a middle - management suit (perfectly pitched on the edge of outrage by Lewis Black), fill out the control room crew and end up panicking when left in charge.

What connects this exhibition that references Smithson, praying mantises and the Wild West at first appears dauntingly incongruous but each work is unified by the revelation that space and time are never neutral.

While I don't really enjoy seeing any living creature subjected to the rigors of science (I'm hoping the subjects were retired to a nearby grassy field after their adventures at the lab) this research is pretty incredible and follows up on the 1980's work by Samuel Rossel using prisms and occluders to prove the visual prowess of praying mantises.