Sentences with phrase «other damselflies»

The researchers found that males are very conspicuous to bird predators, to other damselflies, and to prey, while females remain predominantly cryptic (i.e. hard to see against the background).

This implies that males, but not females, pay a high cost when they use color to communicate with other damselflies, both in terms of predation risk and visibility to prey.

Not exact matches

Other wildlife found here include a variety of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals such as painted turtles, Fowler's toads, red fox, river otters, and at least 24 species of dragonflies and damselflies.

Using damselfly nymphs (Lestes congener) hatched in the lab, researchers put nymphs of various sizes in two different temperature environments, one a balmy 18 ° Celsius and the other a toastier 24 ° Celsius.

Observations revealed that D. villosus took a far greater toll on the other species in its tank than did G. duebeni, killing and mangling large numbers of blue - tailed damselflies, water boatmen, fish leeches and water hoglice.

Researchers have seen other species resort to parthenogenesis when isolated, such as damselflies in the Azores.

All the other giant damselflies live in South America.

Damselflies gravitated to the spot of the screen just on the other side of the fruit fly cluster, providing the first evidence that scents guide damselfly and dragonfly behavior, the team reports this month in the Journal of Insect Physiology.