Sentences with phrase «using ladybird»

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The bright coloration of different ladybird species acts as a warning signal, telling potential predators to beware of the foul smelling, poisonous chemicals they use for defence.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

Modified cameras that are sensitive to ultraviolet light were used to photograph the ladybirds, allowing the researchers to use special modelling and image analysis techniques to analyse how each species would appear to predatory birds, which have very different color vision to humans.

The group fastened the artificial elytra onto an anaesthetised ladybird and used high - speed video to watch the insect fold its wings.

Ladybirds have long, transparent wings that they fold under their bright, spotted wing cases, or elytra, when they're not in use.

Ladybirds effectively use flexibility and elastic behaviour in the structures and achieve complex transformation by very simple structures.»

Work has also been done to identify potential natural enemies that might regulate populations of harlequin ladybirds, such as the wasp parasite Dinocampus coccinellae which occurs worldwide and uses most types of ladybirds as a host.

Although beautiful in coloration, a ladybird is actually using what's called aposematic coloration — basically a color pattern that signals to would - be predators looking to enjoy a ladybug lunch that they're in fact toxic (a ladybug can actually «bleed» toxins from her knees when she's especially pissed off).

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