Sentence examples for flash patterns from inspiring English sources
The faux-firefly's lantern would change flash patterns to attract female attention.
Somehow, mating with males with certain flash patterns allowed females to produce more offspring, which would inherit their preference.
"You can literally drive down the road and without stopping can tell how many fireflies are in a habitat based on flash patterns alone," Branham said.
The females, usually stationary, respond to the flash patterns of males of their own species with specific patterns of their own.
They look for flash patterns of males of their own species, and sometimes they respond with a single flash of their own, always at a precise interval after the male's.
On the other hand, researchers have studied the flash patterns of some species with such precision that they can masquerade as a female and bring a male flying to them.
And near a forest are Pyractomena angulata, which make Dr. Lewis's favorite flash pattern.
The rhythmic flash pattern is part of a signal system that brings the sexes together.
A female of this species mimics the flash pattern of female Photinus fireflies.
A buoy's colour and profile and the colour and flash pattern of its light convey information to navigators.
Branham saw that female fireflies of the photinus consimilis species were responsive when the programmed flash pattern had a higher frequency.
