Moths Sentence Examples

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  • In insects so widely separated as bristle-tails and moths this occurs occasionally.

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  • Leaf-feeding beetles and larvae of moths are best got rid of by shaking the branches and collecting the insects.

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  • Sugar-canes suffer from the sugar cane borer (Diatioca sacchari) in the West Indies; tobacco from the larvae of hawk moths (Sphingidae) in America; corn and grass from various Lepidopterous pests all over the world.

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  • In butterflies and moths the lacinia is absent while the galea becomes a flexible process, grooved on its inner face, so as to make with its fellow a hollow sucking-trunk, and the palp is usually very small.

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  • In moths and certain saw-flies there is no rupture of the membranes; the Russian zoologists Tichomirov and Kovalevsky have described the growth of both amnion and embryonic ectoderm around the yolk, the embryo being thus completely enclosed until hatching time by both amnion and serosa.

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  • His classification was founded mainly on the nature of the wings, and five of his orders - the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, &c.), Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (two-winged flies), Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies), and Hemiptera (bugs, cicads, &c.) - are recognized to-day with nearly the same limits as he laid down.

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  • The caterpillars (" cut worms ") of various species of Agrotis and other moths occur in all parts of the world and attack young cotton.

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  • Pliny says that their wood was everlasting, and therefore images of the gods were made of it; he makes mention also of the oil of cedar, or cedrium, distilled from the wood, and used by the ancients for preserving their books from moths and damp; papyri anointed or rubbed with cedrium were on this account called ced ati libri.

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  • Drawers of cedar or chips of the wood are now employed to protect furs and woollen stuffs from injury by moths.

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  • That is especially true of the moths (yacho), 100 species of which have been identified with English types.

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  • Fishing lines are manufacttired from the cocoons of the genjiki-mushi (Caligula japonica), which is one of the commonest moths in the islands.

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  • Insect life is represented by plant-bugs, locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, dragon-flies, butterflies, numerous varieties of moths, bees and mosquitoes.

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  • For special treatment towards the regeneration of an infected race, the most robust worms were to be selected, and the moths issuing from the cocoons were to be coupled in numbered cells, where the female was to be confined till she deposited her eggs.

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  • Many Aptera are covered with flattened scales like those of moths.

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  • There will be a chance to look for bats and moths and also to see a barn owl.

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  • Most Hymenoptera are of moderate or small size, the giants of the order - certain saw-flies and tropical digging-waspsnever reach the bulk attained by the largest beetles, while the wing-spread is narrow compared with that of many dragonflies and moths.

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  • Butterflies, moths and bees are very abundant, the former being remarkable for their size and splendid coloration; but these groups have not been investigated exhaustively enough to afford a correct idea of their number or their true affinities.

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  • Scorpions and tarantulas are numerous, and lizards, frogs, beetles, ants, butterflies, moths and flies are abundant.

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  • Birds and mammals take the first place; the leading collections devote a good deal of attention to reptiles and batrachians; fishes and aquatic invertebrata are most often to be found only when there are special aquaria, whilst non-aquatic invertebrates are seldom to be seen and at most consist of a few moths and butterflies, spiders, scorpions and centipedes, molluscs and crustaceans.

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  • The insects appeared quickly to revert to natural conditions; the moths brought out in open air were strongly marked, lively and active, and eggs left on the trees stood the severity of the winter well, and hatched out successfully in the following season.

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  • It is important to note that the scales are present when the moths first emerge from the pupa-case, but are loosely attached and fall off with the first flight.

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  • This type of colouring is also found in genera of quite distinct sub-families of butterflies, namely in Danainae and Pierinae, as well as in some diurnal moths, all of which occur in the same district as the Ithomiinae.

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  • The branches are some times attacked by weevils (Rhyn- cites) and the larvae of various moths, and saw-flies (chiefly Erio- campa) feed on the leaves, and young branches and leaves are sometimes invaded by Aphides.

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  • In England moth life is practically continuous all the year round, that is, as regards those moths that attack furs, though the destructive element exists to a far greater extent during spring and summer.

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  • Mosquitoes are innumerable, and moths and ants of the most destructive kind, as well as others equally noxious and disagreeable.

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  • The insect life comprises many brilliantly-coloured beetles, butterflies (about eight hundred species of which are known), moths, locusts, spiders and flies, and also noxious spiders, with scorpions and centipedes.

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  • Other interesting subjects to study are wasps, bees, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths, and dragonflies.

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  • The four red moths were burnets and I think they were 6-spot Burnets, but I am not sure.

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  • Keep a look out for the giant caterpillars of the Hawk Moths.

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  • The adult moths have a grayish forewing with an angled darker marking just inside the cleft.

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  • This family of moths have long narrow forewings capable of powerful flight and can hover over flowers to feed.

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  • Common and conspicuous insects include grasshoppers, earwigs, and many species of beetles, butterflies and moths.

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  • The area includes woodland and glades, perfect for spotting butterflies and moths which are attracted to the wild honeysuckle.

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  • Once inside the trap, the male moths become contaminated with sufficient fungal inoculum to guarantee that they become infected.

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  • Malcolm quoted a sample menu - snail soup, fried sole with wood louse sauce, mutton with wireworm sauce, moths on toast.

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  • This non-drying adhesive catches and retains warehouse moths, which are attracted into the trap by the pheromone lure provided with the locator.

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  • But you can probably get close if your orchard hygiene is impeccable and if you use traps for coddling moths and apple maggots.

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  • These in turn produce the number and variety of butterflies and day-flying moths which are such a feature of the reserve in summer.

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  • Normally these day-flying moths are encountered hovering at flowers - they don't alight to feed.

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  • Brimstone and White Admiral butterflies are frequent in this reserve, which also hosts a number of scarce moths.

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  • Uncommon moths including the scarce burnished brass and the obscure wainscot, both nationally notable species.

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  • The manufacture of a silk sari will involve the death of approximately 50,000 silk moths.

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  • In this way the slowness of the sloth serves these most " slothful " of sloth moths!

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  • There is a colony of chimney sweeper moths in the woodland.

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  • The only other moths recorded this month were Winter Moths and a single Mottled umber at illuminated windows or security lights.

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  • Moths such as the red underwing have brightly colored hindwings, which the moth when disturbed will quickly flash.

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  • Many larvae of beetles, moths, &c., bore into bark, and injure the cambium, or even the wood and pith; in addition to direct injury, the interference with the transpiration current and the access of other parasites through the wounds are also to be feared in proportion to the numbers of insects at work.

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  • Others, with soft, white, cylindrical bodies, which recall the caterpillars of moths, burrow in the leaves or stems of plants.

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  • Pebrine manifests itself by dark spots in the skin of the larvae; the eggs do not hatch out, or hatch imperfectly; the worms are weak, stunted and unequal in growth, languid in movement, fastidious in feeding; many perish before coming to maturity; if they spin a cocoon it is soft and loose, and moths when developed are feeble and inactive.

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  • Pasteur established (I) that the corpuscles are the special characteristic of the disease, and that these invariably manifest themselves, if not in earlier stages, then in the mature moths; (2) that the corpuscles are parasites, and not only the sign but the cause of the disease; and (3) that the disease manifests itself by heredity, by contagion with diseased worms, and by the eating of leaves on which corpuscles are spread.

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  • Moths found in Quaker Oats packs Boxes of Quaker Oats are pulled from the shelves because of the presence of moth pupae and larvae.

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  • An account of the differences may be found in British Pyralid Moths by B. Goater - pages 89-90.

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  • Many moths have a kidney shaped mark (reniform stigma) roughly two thirds of the way back on the forewing.

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  • In this way the slowness of the sloth serves these most " slothful " of sloth moths !

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  • Speckled yellow moths are also very numerous at the moment within Warren Glen and Firehills.

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  • The only other moths recorded this month were Winter Moths and a single Mottled Umber at illuminated windows or security lights.

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  • Along with the unseasonable weather, some unexpected moths also appeared, well outside what I would call their normal flight times.

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  • Strikeback Insect Killing Spray kills most insects, such as ants, bed bugs, flying ants, fleas, cockroaches, flies, moths, wasps and mosquitoes.

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  • The root is primarily eaten by moths and butterflies but is also cultivated for human consumption.

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  • Many are not considered pests and might be the larvae of important species of butterflies or moths.

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  • Cabbage moths fly to the nasturtiums and munch on their leaves instead of cabbage leaves.

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  • Hang it on padded hangars and store in a cool, dry place where it cannot be eaten by moths.

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  • Get some natural cedar for your sweater drawer to keep the garments fresh and moths at bay.

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  • Place cedar chips or lavender with the pajamas to repel moths.

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  • You will often see vintage hand-knit sweaters in shops - if kept from moths, they really do hold up beautifully.

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  • Wrap your bargain basement treasure carefully in tissue paper, and tuck a tiny bit of cedar in the tissue to repel moths.

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  • Then, press X to have a bunch of moths surround you.

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  • Others are drawn to this personality like moths to a flame, partly because of the humanness of Aquarius and partly because of the constant air of self-confidence exuding in everything she undertakes.

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  • Moths, butterflies, worms and rolly pollies are all great bugs to search for, and are usually plentiful during the springtime.

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  • They provide full-color images of real butterflies and moths that you might spot outside your window.

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  • These creatures are as small as butterflies or even moths, and often have magical abilities to enact either good or evil upon the humans they encounter.

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  • Paired erectile plates (patagia) are borne on the prothorax in moths, while in moths, sawflies, wasps, bees and other insects there are small plates (tegulae) - see Fig.

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  • Includes the moths and butterflies.

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  • The art of sericulture concerns itself with the rearing of silkworms under artificial or domesticated conditions, their feeding, the formation of cocoons, the securing of these before they are injured and pierced by the moths, and the maturing of a sufficient number of moths to supply eggs for the cultivation of the following year.

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  • The moths yielding wild silks which have obtained most attention belong to the extensive and handsome family Saturnidee.

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  • These are only a few of the moths from which silks of various usefulness can be produced; but none of these presents qualities, saving perhaps cheapness alone, which can put them in competition with common silk.

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  • Of moths alone Mr Whymper took away with him specimens representing no less than 23 genera, with a probable addition of 13 genera more among his undescribed specimens, the largest of which (an Erebus odora) was 74 in.

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  • Butterflies and moths are remarkable for their number, size, variety and beauty.

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  • Moths, also, of strange forms and of great size are common.

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  • The mode of inheritance of resistance to Cry1Ac in diamondback moths was traced to inheritance as an incompletely dominant trait.

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