Sentences with phrase «spicetail swallowtail»

The butterflies at the moment are becoming quite plentiful; there are Black Swallowtails, Zebra Swallowtails, Tiger Swallowtails, but also Red Admirals, and Painted Ladies, and a host of others.

During a July game a handsome tiger swallowtail drifted into Ky's right - field position.

Mourning cloaks are seen mainly early spring, mid summer and fall; swallowtails are present late May to September; and monarchs June to October.

The spicebush swallowtail is an impressive snake mimic.

However, predators that come across an annoyed spicebush swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio troilus) may well think they've encountered a serpent.

The caterpillar's other defenses include inflatable red horns that emit a terrible stink, like those of the spicetail swallowtail.

As with the spicebush swallowtail caterpillars, the caterpillar closer to pupation has become darker and deeper orange as it will soon be searching for a suitable place to pupate.

Pete Vukusic and Ian Hooper of Exeter University in England studied the colored parts of the swallowtail's wings and found that the scales that comprised them contain photonic crystals whose atoms are spaced so precisely that only certain wavelengths of light can pass through.

Black - and - yellow Asian swallowtail butterfly caterpillars (Papilio xuthus), for example, are black and white with spines and look similar to bird droppings.

Male Japanese yellow swallowtail butterflies have light - sensitive cells on their genitalia.

Tatar studied swallowtail butterflies and their larvae in a riparian forest along the Sacramento River.

In Sacramento, as fate would have it, Tatar's new school was close to his old butterfly field site, and he started going out to chase the swallowtails again.

«It is unthinkable that, with a warming of 2oC, swallowtails would very likely vanish from the Norfolk Broads — and being totally dependent on their food plant, milk parsley, it won't be possible for them to adapt by moving elsewhere.

To illustrate, Peltonen drew two pairs of human chromosomes, which were shaped something like swallowtail butterflies.

«How the Eastern tiger swallowtail got «scary».»

Now back to those swallowtails: Grishin said their primary goal was really to devise a way to sequence genomes with high levels of genetic variation at a reasonable cost, but they were in for some surprises.

For instance, the larva of the giant swallowtail butterfly (Papilio cresphontes)(left) masquerades as a bird dropping, as does the orb web spider (Cyclosa ginnaga).

The genome data uncovered mutations in proteins that are responsible for the circadian rhythm, which might explain why Eastern tiger swallowtails break free of their chrysalises right away instead of sleeping through the winter as their cousins the Canadian tiger swallowtails must do.

The analysis shows that a gene encoding enzymes that synthesize stinky terpenes got multiplied in the swallowtail genome.

Cool as the Eastern tiger swallowtails may be, the new findings are just the beginning of many more butterfly genomes yet to come.

A single sex gene allows the Common Mormon swallowtail to mimic the look of a toxic species — and avoid being eaten

«I was taking pictures of scarce swallowtails on Scabius flowers when I heard a Polistine wasp buzzing around.

Hellmann expects to see more local adaptation in the duskywing than in the swallowtails, as they are more isolated from their southern cousins.

I'm pretty sure this wasp was trying to predate the swallowtail.

But Kiviat, sounding slightly aggrieved, says that New Jersey loosestrife is visited by «big, beautiful, important butterflies — monarchs and tiger swallowtails and silver - spotted skippers.»

Papilio palinurus, or the emerald swallowtail, is threatened in Malaysia, but it looks commonplace surrounding a single specimen of Anteos menippe, a butterfly frequently sighted in South America.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

The puzzle will contain ten words chosen at random from the following list: Astoria, beaver, Beaverton, Bend, blue, Cascades, Chinook, Columbia, Corvallis, Davenport, Douglas, Eugene, fir, gold, grape, Gresham, Groening, Heceta, Hillsboro, Gray, meadowlark, Medford, OR, Ore, Oregon, Portland, roses, Salem, Salmon, Springfield, stars, timber, swallowtail

Got ta go for photo A... those are swallowtail moths, and they descended on Roatan in the hundreds of thousands in September on their migration south!

Yellow - grey land iguanas sit beneath the cacti, whilst along the coastline observe sea lion colonies and frigates and swallowtailed gulls who glide the thermals.

Brightly colored Monarch butterflies and their fat larvae can be seen on Milk Weed July through October, and Parsley and Bronze Fennel attracts elegant Black Swallowtails.

Titled «Highest Honor,» this banner created from sheets of handmade paper will be an oversized version of the Army - Navy «E Award,» which took the form of a swallowtail pennant, and was presented to companies during World War II for excellence in the production of war equipment.

Jennifer Trask, October Necklace, 2002, fabricated and constructed 18k royal gold, 18k green gold, 14k palladium, 22k gold with swallowtail, monarch, queen, and silvery checkerspot butterfly wings; yellow soil from Verona, Italy and Spain; red soil from Arizona; ring - necked pheasant feathers; guinea fowl feathers; iron filings; black sand; and rusted steel in mineral crystal and reticles.

The banner, made from 1,000 square sheets of handmade paper, is an oversized version of the Army - Navy «E Award,» which took the form of a swallowtail pennant and was presented to companies during World War II for excellence in the production of war equipment.

The latter's inverted whitewash of lurid inkjet prints revealed within the white tiles on «Rehabilitated Scribble (blue swallowtail / Vyal one)» (2012), echoes the similarly noxious, though oddly alluring sterility of Amalia Ulman «s The Destruction of Experience solo exhibition at Evelyn Yard.

The dill plants in my garden have hosted large numbers of swallowtail caterpillars and butterflies every year that I grow them, and even after they've had their share to eat, plenty is leftover for us.

Researchers successfully built and flew a flapping - wing - powered swallowtail butterfly, which could have big implications for the field of aerodynamics - after all we saw those videos of early airplanes that attempted to fly by flapping wings and they sure didn't work.

It definitely looks cool, and you can see the mechanisms of this life - sized swallowtail butterfly working away.

Gizmag writes, «Swallowtails» wings are unusually large compared to their bodies, and their forewings overlap their rear wings.

Citrus would be expected, given that citrus swallowtails are named after their favorite food — much to the chagrin of citrus growers — but this doesn't look very citrus - like.

Well, Wong has parlayed that childhood passion into an one - man effort saving San Francisco's population of California pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor hirsuta) butterflies from disappearing completely.

Wong then set out to build a hospitable habitat for the California pipevine swallowtail butterflies in his backyard.

What is remarkable is that while California pipevine swallowtail repopulation efforts have worked in nearby counties like Sonoma and Santa Cruz, Wong's project is the first to truly succeed in San Francisco since the 1980s.

Another contender for the snake - or - alien caterpillar prize, this citrus swallowtail caterpillar has quite the intimidating, and realistic, faux facade.

This spicebush swallowtail caterpillar looks more like a lost puppy than a menacing snake, but sometimes this type of defense mechanism works to distract and disorient the predator, rather than to actually threaten it.

Bonus trivia: A swallowtail caterpillar like this was the inspiration for the Pokemon Caterpie.

i see a lot of the monarchs and swallowtails in my garden, but I'm seeing some yellow with black spots.