Sentence examples for measuring worm from inspiring English sources

The bollworm and measuring worm are two of the most destructive types of moth larvae.

The first or second segments bear paired auditory organs in the snout moths and measuring worm moths.

The larvae of geometrid moths are called by a variety of common names, including inchworm, cankerworm, looper, and measuring worm.

Because of their distinctive larvae, the name measuring worm moth is sometimes applied to certain members of the Geometridae (see geometrid moth).

The moths themselves are sometimes called measuring worm moths.

Many caterpillars within the order Lepidoptera are called worms, such as the measuring worm, silkworm, and armyworm.

Here, we report an inexpensive method to measure worms crawling velocities and sort them within a few minutes by taking advantage of their electrotactic skills.

A microscope equipped with an ocular micrometer was used to measure worms after immobilisation with levamisole (200 μM).

In the measuring worms the prolegs of segments three, four, and five are missing, and in some owlet moths one or two pairs have been lost.

Like other larvae in the subfamily Plusiinae, the cabbage looper has only three pairs of prolegs rather than four, causing it to crawl in a looper fashion similar to the measuring worms in the family Geometridae.

After measuring the worm, Morgan would then draw, cut, and weigh a thin but larger cardboard scale replica of the intact animal.