Sentence examples for moths up from inspiring English sources

Thus it is apparent that moths up to several kilometers away from the treated areas may ultimately be affected because of attraction to the treated area or via another mechanism.

Notorious examples range from this charming Jimmy Carr quip – "the male Gypsy moth can smell the female Gypsy moth up to seven miles away.

And once caught, they rapidly chew the moth up to seven times per second.

She expounds wide-eyed: "I heard amazing things like ants walking or moths coming up out of their pulps".

As a result, pollination by the moths makes up a very tiny proportion of all the pollinator visits that occur within that community and probably has little effect on plant reproduction or natural selection.

"What our radar tells us is that when the winds are in a seasonably favorable direction, moths are up there in large numbers," said Dr. Chapman, lead author of a paper describing the work in the journal Science.

Even when scads of insistent wildlife appear with a flourish right in front of us, and there is such life always — hawks migrating over the parking lot, great colorful moths banging up against the window at night — we barely seem to notice.

And this: "But life is out there in the world, in the hum of enterprise, flirtation, engagement, watching a sunrise, the sand under your feet, and the green in your eyes; life is in the moths fluttering up at dusk into the candle flames on a porch in summer".

Moths make up most of its diet, but it has also been seen feasting on bats and scorpions.

Like most other insects, moths pick up these sounds using tympanic membranes in their abdomens.

There was just one small catch--only a few moths turned up for the party.