Sentences with phrase «stick insects on»

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.

Then, in 1964, rock climbers found the dried - out remains of a giant stick insect on Ball's Pyramid, an 1,800 - foot - tall spire of volcanic rock 14 miles from Lord Howe Island.

Rediscovery of the Lord Howe Island stick insect on Balls Pyramid provides hope that other species thought to be extinct may persist elsewhere.

Not exact matches

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.

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

I remember the end of the little curtained balcony where our class was held, sunlight coming into our room rejoicing through a dusty window, the buzzing of insects in the July fields outside, a flannel board with figures stuck on it, and best of all, the anticipation of a story, followed by Kool - Aid and cookies.

When it's mixed into an energy bar or baked into a cake, cricket flour delivers all the benefits of munching on an insect without the potential of a leg getting stuck between your teeth.

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.

This mostly relies on pollen becoming stuck to the bodies of bees and other insects when they feed on flowers, and then being deposited on the next plant they visit.

By sticking tiny cannons on the backs of cockroaches to see how their recoil jars the insects» balance, researchers have added firepower to a new mathematical model that explains how roaches move so nimbly.

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.

These new findings will not only result in textbook revisions, but will also be tested on the robot Hector, which is based on a stick insect.

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

According to the Shellac & Forest Products Export Promotion Council: «Lac cultivation is done by putting sticks of lac encrustations (broodlac) which contain mature female (gravid) insects, which are about to give birth to young larvae, on suitably prepared specific host plants.

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

As soon as they returned, the biologists got to work on a recovery plan for the stick insect.

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.

The hairs are tipped by tiny sacs filled with a substance that sticks to any insect that alights on the leaf.

It seems that whereas most kinds of insects can switch their scent attractants on and off, mosquitoes are stuck with the females» song willy nilly, as they have been, I suppose, for the past 60 million years or so.

Entomologists have long known that insects typically communicate using odors called pheromones, but they haven't been able to agree on what aggregation pheromones encourage pesky roaches to stick close to one another.

But turning the laser on caused them to suddenly launch frenzied attacks on almost anything in their path: live crickets, fake insects or even sticks and bottle caps.

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.

The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in Stick Insect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island inInsect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island ininsect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in 2001.

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

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.

Stroll past the dozens of stalls serving food to the fascinated tourists excitedly pointing at giant, steaming woks of noodles, dried sticks of skewered insects and whirring blenders filled with local fruits, and you'll find the experience to be an exquisite assault on the senses.

They've got genetics on their side their father and his family are thin... I too was once stick - insect - thin... until the baby fat crept on.