While other Serapias species offer insects a floral tube in which to rest or sleep (shelter imitation strategy), S. lingua seems to have evolved to sexually deceive pollinators, analogous to what is observed in Ophrys orchids [ 26], a phenomenon also supported by the finding of large amounts of alkanes and alkenes in its floral odour extracts [ 27, 28].
The number of people sleeping in shelters has risen eighty-two per cent in the past decade.
In addition to the street count, the city will get a count of homeless people who were sleeping in shelters Thursday night, in hospitals and in jail.
Mr. Mathurin, 45, spent 10 years addicted to crack cocaine, sleeping in shelters and abandoned buildings around Bedford-Stuyvesant, his Brooklyn neighborhood.
Eventually, he lost his job and his apartment — sleeping in shelters when he could find one that would let him in, and sleeping on the subway when he could not.
He spent much of the next eight years living as a hobo — riding trains, doing manual labor, sleeping in shelters or in the wild, contracting syphilis, working occasionally as a proofreader, and, all the while, rethinking every parameter of music.
One thing is indisputable: While the population of homeless single adults has gone down significantly in the last five years, the number of families sleeping in shelters is near an all-time high.
While it has never lost its power to move and astound, it feels especially pertinent in 2014, when the number of men and women sleeping in shelters or on the streets of New York City is higher than since the great depression.
