Sentence examples for which moths from inspiring English sources

Kettlewell himself decided which moths were safely concealed from birds and which were not.

After we got over the initial shock, my wife and I responded rapidly, disposing of food in which moths were breeding.

Richard Fox, surveys manager at Butterfly Conservation, said: "We need to learn as much as we can about which moths are facing the biggest problems so we can direct our work into protecting them and their habitats.

In his first Birmingham predation experiments, Kettlewell released live moths of each form onto tree trunks in the early morning and checked late in the day which moths were still present at their release points.

The extent to which moths are attracted to light varies according to a number of factors.

We discuss the many ways in which moths are known to be affected by artificial night lighting, and suggest how these effects may, in turn, impact pollination interactions between moths and plants.

Plants such as nettles thrive in nitrogen-rich soils, crowding out other, rarer flora on which moth caterpillars may depend.

Using particles of tungsten oxide covered with iron oxide, scientists were able to mimic the way in which moth eyes absorb almost all incident light and thus create highly efficient solar cells.

You can make your own moth traps with flypaper and fish oil, which attracts moths.

Moths may be drawn in towards a light from several metres away (Baker & Sadovy, 1978; Truxa & Fiedler, 2012; van Grunsven et al., 2014); this might alter local moth abundance and the composition of moth assemblages both in the vicinity of lights, and in the source habitats from which attracted moths are drawn (Fig. 2: concentration and ecological trap effects).

Low-flying, old-fashioned open-cockpit biplanes spray for pine loopers, which are moths that attack pine trees.