Sentences with phrase «water boatmen»

The radars recorded medium - sized insects (hoverflies, ladybird beetles, and water boatmen) and large ones (hawk moths, painted lady butterflies, and aquatic beetles) flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high; balloon sampling flights helped provide estimated counts for smaller insects.

Observations revealed that D. villosus took a far greater toll on the other species in its tank than did G. duebeni, killing and mangling large numbers of blue - tailed damselflies, water boatmen, fish leeches and water hoglice.

Even though the water boatman does its «singing» from the bottom of rivers to attract mates, humans walking along the riverbank can clearly hear it.

Water boatman is world's loudest animal relative to its size, thanks to a little help from its sex organ

Using his trusty ZEISS microscope, Nick will give the audience an opportunity to stare into the jaws of a Dragonfly, see the whiskers on a midge and find out why a water boatman has such a hairy bottom!

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He wrote a humorous travel letter and signed it Mark Twain (mark twain is a boatman's call indicating that the water is only two fathoms deep, which is the minimum for safe navigation); he continued to use this pseudonym for the next 50 years.

The boatman explained to me that there are tiny micro-organisms in the water — an animal — that produces the pink color.

Many boatmen opened businesses for charters to go out in search of the many elusive gamefish that swim in the waters of Catalina Island.