Sentence examples for emperor moth from inspiring English sources
The blanket bog is home to the stunning emperor moth with its striking "eyes" on all four wings.
The heavily scaled wings of the emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia), which occurs in temperate regions of Europe and Asia, are marked by transparent eyespots, which presumably serve a protective function in frightening predators.
By the sixth of June they are about half fallen, and I notice that their fall takes place about the time that the great emperor moth (Attæus cecropia) comes out of its chrysalis, and it is sometimes found in the morning wrecked on the surface of the river amid them.
Some lepidopterans, for example the emperor moth (Saturnia pavonia), display their eyespots constantly, whereas others, such as the eyed hawkmoth (Smerinthus ocellata), keep their eyespots hidden at rest and display their eyespots only when attacked by a predator (Vallin et al. 2010).
The Saturniidae family includes the giant silkmoths, royal moths and emperor moths.
Cocoon of the emperor gum moth (Opodiphthera eucalypti).
A blue mormon butterfly, a crane fly, a mayfly, an emperor dragonfly, an atlas moth, a pale snaketail dragonfly, a plains lubber grasshopper, a luna moth, a common green grasshopper, a common wasp, great black wasp.
On day of coronation rehearsal, he borrowed the Emperor's plane, the Moth, and took off in it.
He tried to make a flight in the Emperor's favorite airplane, a Gypsy Moth, but the plane crashed and was ruined.
The English zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, author of The Colours of Animals (1890) discovered the countershading of various insects, including the pupa or chrysalis of the purple emperor butterfly, Apatura iris, the caterpillar larvae of the brimstone moth, Opisthograptis luteolata and of the peppered moth, Biston betularia.
