Sentences with phrase «long proboscises»

Famously, Charles Darwin predicted that there must have been moths with exceedingly long proboscises in Madagascar after he saw the orchids from that island with deeply recessed nectar.

But when you can unfurl a 14 - inch long proboscis, who cares?

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.

Borrell thinks the orchid bees and their flowers may have evolved hand - in - hand, with the flowers getting deeper with runnier nectar, and the bees evolving longer proboscises.

The unusual creatures of Antarctica's Southern Ocean are all legs and no body, with a long proboscis to suck up their soft - bodied prey, such as jellyfish

It has a 12 - inch long nectary — there is a tube where the nectar accumulates — and he predicts that there is a moth, thinks it has to be [a] moth with a very long proboscis basically like a straw that would be, maybe 11 inches long.

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.

Not exact matches

Only when flowers produced volatiles did the moths stay long enough to drink nectar, and only when they stayed long enough did they deliver enough pollen on their proboscis to successfully pollinate other scenting flowers.

(Euglossa imperialis's proboscis is longer than its body.)

This choice test revealed that the moth's proboscis remained much longer in the part of the «flower» that smelled than in the other part.

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

«We showed that Darwin's prediction that each flower has a pollinator with a proboscis fitting into the flower, in Manduca not only resulted in a very long tongue, but also in a preference for the odor of the fitting flower.

A choice assay revealed that the Manduca sexta proboscis stayed much longer in the part of the y - maze tube where benzyl acetone, a typical floral scent compound, was present.

It also looks strangely petit, but it still has a whiff of Wacky Races about it thanks to its extraordinary proboscis, which is now longer, wider and has sharper and more defined edges.

Adults may drink the nectar of composite flowers (sunflower family), using a long tube called a proboscis that extends from the underside of the head.

Northern elephant seals, the world's second largest type of seal, are named for the males» proboscis - like snouts; mature males, which can grow to 16 feet long and weigh up to 2,268 kilos, inflate their snouts to make rumbling bellows during the spring mating season).