Sentences with word «swallowtail»

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.
«How the Eastern tiger swallowtail got «scary».»
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.
Now, it turns out that one species of swallowtail butterfly from Australasia, the common bluebottle (Graphium sarpedon, pictured), known for its conspicuous blue - green markings, is even better equipped for such visual tasks.
However, predators that come across an annoyed spicebush swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio troilus) may well think they've encountered a serpent.
Wong then set out to build a hospitable habitat for the California pipevine swallowtail butterflies in his backyard.
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.
Another contender for the snake - or - alien caterpillar prize, this citrus swallowtail caterpillar has quite the intimidating, and realistic, faux facade.
To illustrate, Peltonen drew two pairs of human chromosomes, which were shaped something like swallowtail butterflies.
The emerald swallowtail's distinctive green stripes are a shimmering optical illusion created by tiny yellow pits with sloped blue sides on the surface of the butterfly's wings.
Male Japanese yellow swallowtail butterflies have light - sensitive cells on their genitalia.
During a July game a handsome tiger swallowtail drifted into Ky's right - field position.
The caterpillar's other defenses include inflatable red horns that emit a terrible stink, like those of the spicetail swallowtail.
Black - and - yellow Asian swallowtail butterfly caterpillars (Papilio xuthus), for example, are black and white with spines and look similar to bird droppings.
Tatar studied swallowtail butterflies and their larvae in a riparian forest along the Sacramento River.
He began investigating why some female swallowtails lay a few eggs per clutch on a plant shoot whereas others lay many.
«Iconic swallowtail butterfly at risk from climate change.»
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).
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Jaffe captured this picture of a black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) feeding on its host, the carrot plant.
Photographer adrian nutter notes that the butterfly is a citrus swallowtail, but no mention of what species of plant the pretty creature is visiting.
Cool as the Eastern tiger swallowtails may be, the new findings are just the beginning of many more butterfly genomes yet to come.
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.
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.
Through the kitchen window came this light, the color of swallowtail or goldfinch wings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As butterflies go, the Eastern tiger swallowtail is pretty scary.
Hellmann is gathering two species of butterflies, duskywing skippers and swallowtails, at all these sites, and breeding them, so she can look at the differences between the butterflies in different parts of the range.
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.»
Specifically, the flame azalea depends primarily on the Eastern tiger swallowtail.

Phrases with «swallowtail»

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