Sentence examples for dry pitcher from inspiring English sources

When they allowed an Asian ant species, Camponotus rufifemur, to stroll into a dry pitcher, only 29% fell into the abyss, as shown in the first section of the accompanying video.

In tests replicating an ant's journey down into a pitcher, ants without adhesive pads couldn't get a grip on a dry pitcher wall, whereas intact ants couldn't get a grip on a wet pitcher wall but did manage to get a purchase on a dry wall.

Air-conditioning makes the room too dry for pitcher plants.

This will prevent the elements from drying out your pitcher's mound or washing it into the turf.

Not even with a pitcher of dry martinis at hand.

Mr. Popham is also enamored of dry land plants like yuccas, and pitcher plants, which are carnivorous and trap insects attracted by their nectar.

Never let the pitcher plant's soil dry out, even during dormancy keep water in the drain saucer.

But for several hours during the hottest part of the day, the edges of those pitchers (one shown above) are dry, which allows foraging ants to collect nectar from inside the rim of a pitcher and then return to their colony to alert their kin to the plant's bounty and its location.

These containers should be carefully washed out, preferably with the same type of water one would use to irrigate the pitchers, and allowed to dry.

For all other analyses, we analyzed nitrogen uptake by pitchers as μg 15N per gram dry mass.

Pitcher plants should not be allowed to dry out because most prefer slightly moist to constantly damp soil and this is the second quickest way to kill them.