Sentences with phrase «fly proboscis»

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.

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

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.

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

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

Hirsh and his colleagues Rozi Andretic and Sarah Chaney administered aerosolized cocaine to fruit flies and watched for signs of a fly high, such as compulsive grooming, proboscis extension, and flying in circles.

To eat solid food, a fly vomits the contents of its stomach onto solids, which will break it down into a liquid that it can drink via its proboscis.