The Camberwell beauty, from the Nordic countries, with its maroon wings bordered with cream, is a quite stunning one, while very handsome, too, is the Queen of Spain fritillary from France; but the greatest prize is almost certainly the monarch, for anyone who sees one in Britain is witnessing something extraordinary: an insect which has just flown the Atlantic.
The large numbers of pseudo mt genes we found in L. entomophila and L. paeta in this study and in L. bostrychophila [ 13] are extraordinary for insects and animals, indicating that large-scale changes, such as tandem duplication or mt chromosome duplication, occurred relatively recently in the multipartite mt genomes of these booklice.
There is no immediate application for the published findings, although the authors point out that the extraordinary adaptations of insects can provide unexpected inspiration.
This extraordinary species attracts insects with nectar, lets them slide down a slippery rim into a pool of fluid where they are digested and absorbed.
The extraordinary biodiversity of insects in tropical rainforest canopies has been the inspiration and basis for the development of many theories attempting to explain the evolution of plant-animal interactions, - food web dynamics, and global biodiversity patterns.
In the dragonfly, the four transparent, ultraflexible wings are attached to the thorax by separate muscles and can each be maneuvered independently, lending the insect an extraordinary range of flight options.
An extraordinary feature of the insect nAChR genes is that they can potentially create many different mRNAs by RNA editing and alternative splicing.
Where to start with this glorious gallimaufry of personal reminiscences by the nation's favourite naturalist about the more extraordinary birds, beasts and insects he has come across in his 60-year career?
Here, we show that these relatively common landscape structures accompanying coal combustion indeed host insects of extraordinary conservation value.
Adaptations to extreme environments, coupled with the large number of unusual food sources exploited by insects and their extraordinary diversity, provides a fertile ground for research into excretory mechanisms.
