Sentences with phrase «lives on caterpillars»

A drug from a parasitic mushroom that lives on caterpillars could become an effective new painkiller for people with osteoarthritis within the next six years.

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One variety, a 2008 study says, has a hormone that controls when it changes from looking like bird droppings to looking like the leaf it lives on, which is the disguise it adopts in the last stage of caterpillar development.

For some caterpillars, pooping where they eat is an unavoidable fact of life — even if it's on the very corn they eat.

LIFE GOES ON They may look like microscopic caterpillars, but don't let their quaint appearance fool you — water bears are no joke.

A certain species of caterpillar, for example, smells like the plant that it lives on and eats.

Amanda Seyfried as a M.K., a young girl who goes to live with her father and is magically shrunken and caught up in a battle with the Leaf Men, who are dressed in green (obviously), live in the forest and fly around on hummingbirds; Beyoncé Knowles as the queen of the forest people; Christoph Waltz as the villainous leader of the forces of forest decay out to destroy all that lovely green stuff; Steven Tyler as a fumbling caterpillar; Colin Farrell as Ronin, a hardened warrior and leader of the Leaf Men who is a big sweetheart underneath it all; Josh Hutcherson, of Hunger Games fame (Team Peeta!)

I put this collection of caterpillar photos together for my class as part of our project work on minibeasts, life cycles, and habitats.

So while Caterpillars on a Leaf (c. 1952) represents (in a charming semi-figurative style of hatched black on yellow) the curling form of the creatures, by the early 1960s the artist was no longer focusing on the world of appearances, jettisoning still - lifes and interiors for paintings of pure feeling.

Some species can take a while to take hold and mature, but hopefully soon enough there will be new homes for monarch caterpillars to start their majestic caterpillar lives and go on to become some of the most remarkable insects on the planet.

Sitting in his chambers the day before the sentencing, he thought of a study of butterflies, which he'd come across in a magazine a few days before, during an afternoon working in the garden: even after the chrysalis and even after having melted down into goo during their transformation from caterpillars, butterflies showed evidence of remembering their life on the ground.