Sentences with phrase «with stick insects»

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.

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.

The Biological Cybernetics research group has developed a new technique that works well with the stick insect's ultra-light weight.

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.

Easy Insect Craft for Kids: Craft a few crawling and flying critters with popsicle sticks.

«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.

In order to unravel how much force the stick insect's leg joints generate, Dallmann had his insects walk along a walkway with integrated platforms.

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

«The robot is similar to a stick insect and is equipped with elastic leg joints,» says Chris Dallmann.

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

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

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.

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).

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

The glaive is a twirly stick paired with — stay with me — a robotic insect - thing that you can fire at larger enemies to collect their «essence», and the Elite Blade is a sword and shield that transforms into a gigantic greatsword, kind of like the Switch Axe.

The Teething Stick looks more like the larvae of some insect floating in a pond, complete with its shrimp - like tail and crab - like legs.

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.

We profile the Brazil - based artist whose diverse body of work brings together radical anthropology, warped reweavings of the modernist grid and a fascination with the stick - insect family.

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.