Sentence examples for insect jaw] from inspiring English sources
Insect Printer [Yanko Design].
Often this was enough to make the poor wasp flee in a panic, but in rare bursts of bravery, it would occasionally grab a Napoleonic ant in its mandibles, fly backward a few centimeters with the insect twitching in its jaws, open its mandibles, and let gravity do its work.
Computers have changed a lot in the 67 years since that dead insect was pulled from a relay's jaws but bugs can still trip up a machine.
Venus flytraps wait for insects to crawl or land in their open mouths and then snap their jaws closed to absorb the insect's nutrients.
These beautiful predators belong to the order known as Odonata meaning "toothed jaw" and look almost identical to large insects which flew over our forests at the time of the dinosaurs.
Originally from South America, the insect has a head that resembles a hammerhead shark with jaws that can open 180°, National Geographic reports.
Furthermore, in committing self-sacrifice through their jaw clamping behavior, stingless bees can immobilize or kill intruding insects (Grüter et al. 2012) and cause longer-lasting pain to vertebrate predators, preventing further attack on their colonies.
The second or deutocerebral appendage includes the jaw of onychophorans, the raptorial appendage of megacheirans, the antenna of insects and myriapods and the antennule of crustaceans, and the chelicera of chelicerates.
But the unicorn ant was seemingly ahead of the trap-jaw game these other ants wouldn't evolve until millions of years after this unique insect was alive.
The team placed single trap-jaw ants into plastic cups filled with 4 cm of sand and a 1-cm-long burrowing insect with large jaws known as an antlion at the bottom.
