Sentences with word «eyespots»

Playing muse to every teacher who warned of eyes in the back of their head, the stinging saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) has strategically placed eyespots on it backside.

Recent work also shows that some plants, such as the cabbage and mustard relative Arabidopsis, make proteins that are involved in the development and functioning of eyespots — the ultrabasic eyes found in some single - celled organisms such as green algae.

The 10 - micrometer - wide microbe has a small eyespot, which Deisseroth describes as «kind of cute,» that spins around to detect light.

«This discovery suggests that plastoglobuli in plants may act as eyespots,» Baluška says.

Predator Mimicry, Not Conspicuousness, Explains the Efficacy of Butterfly Eyespots.

Larger eyespots tend to look like the eyes of a predator's enemy, which suggests they serve to intimidate potential attackers.

In addition to its fake eyespots, it can inflate a large pair of bright red, stinking horns that look like snakes» tongues and smell like snake musk.

Coss noted that butterflies and other creatures often use false eyespots to produce alarm in predators.

The yellowy - green caterpillars have black heads with big orange eyespots to warn off would - be predators.

The owl butterfly is so named because of the enormous eyespots that dominate its lower wings.

It's the first well - documented example of an organism using body shape to confuse predators that use echolocation, the researchers say — the equivalent of fish and insects that display giant eyespots for visual trickery.

Some of these butterfly pictures featured natural - looking eyespots, others had none, and a third group showed digitally manipulated spots that had the same color contrast as real spots but looked less like eyes.

The birds produced equivalent aversive responses to mimetic eyespots and to the true eyes of owls.

Living in the pitch dark blackness of the sea, why did they need eyespots?

I would, too, if I had teal feathers and stunning eyespots.

-LSB-...][A] rare visitor, a splendid, pale - yellow creature with black blotches, blue crenels, and a cinnabar eyespot above each chrome - rimmed black tail -LSB-...] kept restlessly jerking its great wings, and my desire for it was one of the most intense I have ever experienced.

Smaller eyespots may attract a predator's attention away from the head or other vital body parts.

Figure 3: Formation of a butterfly eyespot (top) is foreshadowed by concentric rings of gene expression at the chrysalis stage (bottom).

It's also possible that the eyespots act as decoys that cause hunters to attack the outer wing instead of the more vulnerable body.

It may seem obvious what function the eyespots serve — to fool predators into thinking that a large - eyed animal is staring back at them.

Moths chase single molecules of seemingly scentless pheromones, and a male satyrid butterfly woos with the invisible (to us) ultraviolet on his eyespot.

They raise their forewings and twist their hindwings to show off eyespots and stripes to maximum effect.

When the researchers painted over the moth's eyespots, the mimicry seemed to fall apart — the spiders did not perform courtship displays, and instead spent some time examining the moths, then ate them.

A tail can have up to 175 eyespots to try and attract females — but are they paying any attention?

In 2014 biologist Sebastiano De Bona of the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and his colleagues concluded that eye mimicry — rather than the conspicuousness of an eyespot — was responsible for averting predators.

Eyespots — concentric circles resembling vertebrate eyes — are ubiquitous among moths and butterflies, but they can be small and marginally located or large and central.

Known as Chlamy to researchers, this alga's combination of traits — it has a cell wall and chloroplasts, but also an eyespot and pair of flagella, and switches between sunlight and carbon for food — has made it a popular study subject for decades.

She speculated that they might be a type of «eyespot» and set out to determine whether these spots contained pigments that might be light - sensitive.

It's quite likely that scientists would not have discovered this glow without being curious about the shrimp's eyespots, and thus, another fascinating area of research was born.

The eye sockets make me think of the eyespots on a killer whale.

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During the colder dry season (ca. 18 °C, May — November) the species has rather uniform wing patterns and small eyespots, while it exhibits large eyespots and bright bands on both wings in the warmer wet season (ca. 23 °C, December — April)(Larsen, 1991; Lyytinen et al., 2004).