Sentence examples for moth that has from inspiring English sources

Unlike the leaf-eating gypsy moth that has blighted eastern Long Island or the crickets that have destroyed crops in Utah this year, the 17-year locust causes little damage to plants and does not spread disease.

The Micklethwaits already have experience in catering for off-grid guests, renting out a yurt in another corner of the grounds, and a pimped-up 1950s lorry, the Beer Moth, that has been converted into a campervan for two, with parquet floor, woodburning stove and Victorian brass-framed double bed.

However, this new evidence changes the story of industrial melanism in the peppered moth that has been taught in schools and colleges over the last half century very little.

It is exhausting, and Lockwood goes to bed overwhelmed: "As I drifted quickly off to sleep, my last conscious thought was the rueful reflection that I was like a moth that had set out looking for a little light and had flown straight into a laser beam".

PAGE C1 Science Times COUNTING THE SPECIES ON A LITTLE PATCH OF EARTH Rare life forms can sometimes show up on your doorstep, as a family in Washington learned upon discovering a tiny moth that had never been seen alive in North America.

Also, dried beetles whose markings resembled sumo wrestlers, complete with top knot, and moths that had been delicately pinned to plastic foam rafts and set afloat in covered containers filled with hot water (to steam their wings open).

Female moths that have mated and found a suitable host tree lay eggs, which develop into larvae and pupae.

To avoid inbreeding or artificial larval diet effects, only moths that had been reared from field-collected eggs and maintained on a plant diet were used.

Chemical communication in mating behavior is a prominent feature of moth biology that has contributed to their extensive divergence.

This spoken memoir was developed through the Moth, the storytelling project that has attracted a devoted national audience on radio and in live performance.

The virulence of the E. faecium strains was assessed using a previously described Galleria mellonella (Greater Wax Moth) invertebrate infection model that has been utilized in several studies as an invertebrate model to study the virulence of pathogenic organisms including Staphylococcus aureus and Enterococcus faecalis[ 64- 66].