Sentence examples for wing spread from inspiring English sources

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It'll then hang for a few hours, letting its wing spread and fully form.

These are huge moths, with wing spreads of up to six inches -- Brobdingnagian insects for Brobdingnagian flowers.

Bursicon is a neurohormone initiating cuticular tanning and wing spreading immediately after eclosion of an adult fly [165] [168].

Finally, feedback behavior of the female, probably genital and wing spreading [3], is necessary for copulation to occur (M13).

Female acceptance is signaled by wing spreading, thereby allowing the male to mount and copulate; otherwise, females move or fly away at this stage of courtship [32].

To prevent males from observing female wing spreading, we allowed deaf males to court WT females in the dark and subsequently observed a 29% reduction in copulation.

Wing lengths of 223 honeybees present in two museum collections dating from three time periods (1900 1983; 1984–1993; 1994–2003) were determined using the FABIS method (Sylvester and Rinderer 1987) with the exception that instead of removing wings, the bees were placed within a foam wing spreading block and their wings were spread under a slide.

We observed no change in copulation rates for arista-cut males, but this may be due to the fact (as we suggest in the text) that these males can still sense female wing spreading (which is a receptivity cue).

Because virilis females indicate their receptivity via wing spreading (Vuoristo et al., 1996), deaf males may use this visual signal (produced by intact females) to drive mating in the absence of acoustic cues.

The lack of significance of the reduction in courtship success may be due to the ability of males to still detect female wing spreading in the dark (e.g., using mechanosensation).