Sentences with phrase «stick insects»

«Growing up we had dogs, a cat, a rabbit, fish and stick insects, so animals have always been a part of our lives,» says Fenella.

Huang Yong Ping, Theater of the World, 1993, wood and metal structure with warming lamps, electric cable, insects (spiders, scorpions, crickets, cockroaches, black beetles, stick insects, centipedes), lizards, toads, and snakes.

Your exploring could take you down south to the Amazon jungle where a bounty of treasures awaits - sloths in the trees, night hikes to spot stick insects that are usually only spotted by the finely tuned eyes of your specialist guide, and boat rides out at dusk to watch out for the sneaky cayman.

While a pet store may keep some animals in tight quarters on the theory that the caging is temporary, spiders, scorpions, stick insects, mantids and especially roaches all thrive in small spaces.

After graduating, Dr. Richards began her career as a zookeeper and animal trainer at Brookfield Zoo, where she took care of a wide variety of species ranging from prickly stick insects to polar bears.

Following a bug hunt and an afternoon looking at and handling stick insects, a praying mantis, snails, tarantulas and scorpions the students studied the depiction of insects in arts from earliest Egyptian to contemporary drawings, before producing their own studies, which were exhibited at a local gallery.

I have never been attracted to stick insects and have always found a woman with curves to be far more fun and, it...

Fashion models may be seven - foot stick insects, but it seems we Brits aspire to a somewhat different shape.

I honestly think culottes can only be worn successfully by 6» 0 stick insects!

Dimensionality of sexual isolation during reinforcement and ecological speciation in Timema cristinae stick insects.

Today fewer than 30 adult stick insects remain on the Pyramid and the species is recognised as «Critically Endangered» by the IUCN Red List.

This highly inaccessible island outcrop has very few areas of suitable habitat for the remaining population of stick insects.

Removal of the invasive Morning Glory vine from the small area occupied by the stick insects was successfully carried out in 2003.

Most importantly, a breeding population of Lord Howe Island stick insects has been established at the Melbourne Zoo thus providing insurance against a second extinction event.

Entomologist Matan Shelomi, affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, spent years studying the gut microbiomes of herbivorous stick insects (Phasmatodea).

But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack.

In 1916, Arthur Lea, a well - known Australian entomologist, visited the island and described seeing as many as 68 stick insects in a single tree hollow.

In addition, Nosil's team transplanted hundreds of individual stick insects onto the plant they weren't adapted to and collected the offspring a year later.

Humble stick insects may hold the answer to that long - running question in biology.

A species of stick insects, the giant leaf insect is a large and docile bug that uses cryptic coloration to avoid predators.

He scoured the Internet for help, but no one knew anything about the veterinary care of giant stick insects!

For instance, after researchers discovered a remnant population of 24 Lord Howe Island stick insects dwelling under a single bush on an island cliff face, conservationists launched a major captive - breeding program.

Stick insects also have elongated thoraxes, with a stretched - out middle segment.

The researchers therefore argue that the three new species together make up a separate order, which they have named Mantophasmatodea, for its superficial resemblance to the praying mantis and phasmids, the stick insects.

But Klass observed that the female lacked the plate on the underside of its abdomen that covers egg - laying appendages in stick insects.

In June 2001, Oliver Zompro, a graduate student interested in stick insects at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Plön, Germany, was visiting London's Natural History Museum.

Niels Peder Kristensen and Klaus - Dieter Klass found that all three specimens shared some characteristics with stick insects and an obscure group called ice crawlers.

In 2001, a team of scientists visiting Ball's Pyramid, an isolated rock spire off Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, discovered the world's rarest invertebrate: an apparent relict population of two dozen Lord Howe Island stick insects (Dryococelus australis).

Related sites More about the stick insects, from bugbios.com The Max Planck Institute for Limnology The Natural History Museum's entomology department

Morphological analyses of the bugs conducted by Zampro and his colleagues confirmed that they did not fit in any of the 30 known insect orders, though they share features in common with stick insects and a little - known group called ice crawlers.

Biologist Chris Dallmann works with stick insects, which are up to eight centimeters long.

In his doctoral dissertation, Chris Dallmann is dealing with the question of how stick insects adapt the way they walk to their environment.

IT LIVES Although darker than those found on Lord Howe Island, these stick insects, from nearby Ball's Pyramid, are the same species.

The Melbourne Zoo has been breeding stick insects taken from Ball's Pyramid since 2003, with the goal of reintroducing them to Lord Howe.

Stick insects look like small twigs, which camouflages them from predators.

In 2001, scientists climbing Ball's Pyramid, a treacherous rocky outcrop southeast of Lord Howe Island, discovered three stick insects feeding on a lone bush.

Stick insects actively explore the near - range environment by means of sweeping feelers, and often respond to contacts of their feelers by directed reaching movements.

Meanwhile, other researchers have examined how stick insects right themselves in the air after a fall, how owls fly silently and how pigeons navigate turbulence to pick up some aerodynamic tricks for flying robots.

In the 1960s, there were various reports of sightings of large stick insects on Balls Pyramid, a rat - free rocky outcrop 14 miles from Lord Howe Island, which is off the eastern coast of Australia.

AW needs to stop the players looking like stick insects and put some pounds on them and maybe the sick note would stop just for change AW said he might bring in one player in jan shit man bring in 5 so you don't need to spend in the summer and build from there.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

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The Lord Howe Island stick insect was believed to have become extinct sometime around 1920 due to the introduction of black rats.

In 2001, a scientific research team visited the rock and ascertained that the Lord Howe Island stick insect really was alive.

The ultimate goal is to reintroduce the stick insect to Lord Howe Island, but the rats must be eradicated first.

The smallest snake, biggest stick insect, smallest sea horse, and a tree that kills itself by flowering.

«We wanted to find out how a stick insect moves, and which functions the individual parts of the leg play in its movement,» explains Professor Dr. Josef Schmitz, who together with Professor Dr. Volker Dürr is supervising Chris Dallmann's doctoral dissertation.

Until recently, biologists around the world believed that the force for the stick insect's forward movement came from the joint that moved the leg backwards.

«Correcting a misconception: Stick insect's propulsion joint discovered.»

The stick insect is a popular model organism in biological research for gaining a better understanding of insect walking movements.