Sentences with phrase «hawk moths»

HEAR ME ROAR Annoy this Nessus sphinx hawk moth caterpillar and it will create a hissing noise, perhaps similar to the way teakettles whistle.

Like nectar bats, many species of hawk moths (sometimes called sphinx moths) can reach nectar inaccessible to other flying creatures.

Interfacing insects to robots started with hawk moths.

That's why Bozkurt isn't giving up on hawk moths, either.

Like most hawk moth caterpillars, they have a backward curving spine or «horn» on the final abdominal segment.

Until now, scientists thought that flowers which don't produce floral volatiles are invisible to nocturnal pollinators, such as hawk moths.

Darwin's observations inspired Markus Knaden, who heads the studies with Manduca sexta hawk moths in the Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, and his colleagues.

Presenting here last week at a meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, the researchers say this signaling ability has evolved three times in hawk moths and about a dozen more times overall among other moths.

Male hawk moths have a different method: They scrape their genitals on their abdomens to make an ultrasonic blast, the team reported in Biology Letters.

CATERPILLAR CATERWAUL One of the relatively few caterpillars discovered to make noises, the young Nessus sphinx hawk moth gives hissy protests when tapped by lab forceps.

Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3 - D printed flowers with different curvatures shows that a moderately curved trumpet shape lets moths sip most efficiently, Foen Peng reported June 24 at the Evolution 2017 meeting.

When visiting other Nicotiana flowers, hawk moths spent excessive amounts of energy, because they had difficulty drinking nectar from flower corollas which were too short or too long.

«Scent guides hawk moths to the best - fitting flowers: Researchers show that Manduca sexta recognizes scent of flowers matching its proboscis, thereby optimizes energy gain.»

Conducting semi-natural tent experiments with plants of the wild tobacco species Nicotiana attenuata, Danny Kessler and Felipe Yon along with their colleagues from the Department of Molecular Ecology were surprised when they observed that non-scenting flowers were visited by tobacco hawk moths (Manduca sexta) as often as were scenting flowers.

Yet a Nessus sphinx hawk moth, if disturbed, will emit from its open mouth a sustained hiss followed by a string of scratchy burplike sounds.

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.

His research is with hawk moths, but catching them means that he gets to see a plethora of other critters.

Tap — gently — the plump rear of a young Nessus sphinx hawk moth, and you may hear the closest sound yet discovered to a caterpillar voice.

Various insects, including the hawk moth, can jam bat sonar systems by overwhelming them with sound.

The scientific paper of 2013 that reads most like a comic book comes from biologists at Boise State University and the University of Florida, who describe the spectacular results of the «evolutionary arms race» between the bat and the hawk moth, which «have been engaged in aerial warfare for nearly 65 [million years].»

My first experiment was taking a hawk moth [and] putting an electrode in its brain neuron that looked for left and right motion.

Take the hawk moth.

You hook into the olfactory system of the hawk moth and build a bomb - sniffing robot that has the drive electronics of a regular robot and the nose of a hawk moth.

You could make a robot turn left or right depending on the hawk moth.

MASS MIGRATIONS This hawk moth (Hyles gallii) is one of millions of insects that migrate through a Swiss Alpine pass each year.

On the plant's side, the presence of floral scent increases the fitness of individual flowers for two reasons: Scenting flowers are more likely to be perceived by pollinators than are non-scenting flowers, and floral volatiles increase the success of the hawk moths» foraging efforts and thus its eventual reproduction.

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.

In order for the hawk moth to feed on nectar, it doesn't just have to hit a flower's bull's - eye; it has to hit it in the dark while the flower sways back and forth.

Now, scientists have shown that hawk moths (above) and other species have also evolved this behavior.

It could be that, like the tiger moths, the hawk moths are jamming the bat's signal.

The radars recorded medium - sized insects (hoverflies, ladybird beetles, and water boatmen) and large ones (hawk moths, painted lady butterflies, and aquatic beetles) flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high; balloon sampling flights helped provide estimated counts for smaller insects.

The tobacco hawk moths are larger than usual moths; when they hover in front of a flower in order to drink nectar they must beat their wings more than 30 times a second, an activity which looks exhausting and requires a lot of energy.

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.

In 1903, more than 20 years after Darwin's death, such a pollinator was in fact discovered: the hawk moth Xanthopan morganii, which received the subspecies name praedicta (the predicted) in honor of Darwin's hypothesis.

Gabrielle Saulsbery, Modern Farmer Many of the ingredients in popular dishes would become scarce or totally unavailable without pollinators like bees, hummingbirds and hawk moths.