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单词 Pieris
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When creating authentic garden-driven holiday décor, look beyond traditional conifers, and include snippets of broad-leaved evergreen shrubs like Pieris, Mahonia and variegated Leucothoe. This holiday season, lose the tinsel, bows and trinkets, and deck the halls with nature’s bounty 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z
The outer ranges of mountains are mainly covered with forests of Pinus longifolia, rhododendron, oak and Pieris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z
This egg-parasite passes its early life in the eggs of Pieris brassicæ, and two or three live to reach the imago state, though about six eggs are deposited by the female. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
The chromatophores in the larva of Vanessa are very numerous, and this grub is a remarkably successful tinctumutant; the same can be said of the larvæ of certain varieties of Pieris. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
He took a female of bryoniae, an alpine and arctic variety of Pieris napi, showing in an intensive degree the characters of the spring brood. The Life-Story of Insects
In Pieris pyrrha and its allies the male retains the usual type of coloration of the whole genus, while the female has acquired a distinct and peculiar style of colouring. Darwinism (1889)
On reaching home he found that he had parted with specimens of the rare Bath White, Pieris daplidice, for some quite common butterflies. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
This insect is of Godart's fifth size, and comes very near to his Pieris nina. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2
Henceforth, Pieris brassicae, the White Cabbage Butterfly, will contribute the greater portion of the victuals. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
To put it in his own words, "he made for the flowers and insects as the Pieris makes for the cabbage and the Vanessa makes for the nettle." Fabre, Poet of Science
The man who was the first to see his cabbage-plot devastated by caterpillars made the acquaintance of the Pieris. More Hunting Wasps
You ask what I think about the gay-coloured females of Pieris. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
Among these was a new species, which I have named Pieris tamar. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1
We make ourselves at home in a cabbage bed: the sons of the Pieris make themselves at home there too. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
But the Pieris, which haunts the cabbage, frequents the nasturtium also, and the golden rose-beetle, which "intoxicates itself at the clusters of the hawthorn," is no less addicted to the nectar of the rose. Fabre, Poet of Science
The cabbage Pieris consumes the pungent leaves of the Cruciferae as the food of her infancy; the Silkworm disdains any foliage other than that of the mulberry-tree. More Hunting Wasps
I think the case of female Pieris pyrrha proves that females alone can be greatly modified for protection. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
To see the mother at her laying is no easy matter: when examined too closely, the Pieris decamps at once. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
Unless the Pieris has an innate power of discrimination to guide her, it is impossible to understand the great extent of her vegetable realm. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
The Pieris limits herself to depositing her eggs on the leaves of the cabbage, "on which the young must themselves find food and shelter." Fabre, Poet of Science
However pressed by hunger, the caterpillar of the Spurge Hawk-moth, which browses on the tithymals, will allow itself to starve in front of a cabbage leaf which makes a peerless meal for the Pieris. More Hunting Wasps
Obviously the Pieris did not wait for the advent of man and his horticultural works in order to take part in the joys of life. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
The Pieris has two families a year: one in April and May, the other in September. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
How does the Pieris manage to know her way about her botanical domain? The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
Let loose in the wire cage, the Pieris is regarded as excellent game. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
The Pieris, on its part, takes good care not to touch the tithymals: they would endanger its life. More Hunting Wasps
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