单词 | sphinx moth |
例句 | The focus of this year’s Moth Week — the Sphingidae family, which includes what are commonly called hawk and sphinx moths — serve as important pollinators and food for larger animals. Spare Times for Children for July 24-30 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The Virginia creeper sphinx moth looks like a delta-winged aircraft, camouflaged for action. The underrated beauty of moths 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “A way to see the moths is looking at deep-throated flowers on summer nights, like Monarda, that the sphinx moths nectar at,” Mr. Cipkowski said. The Pleasures of Moth-Watching 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z A sphinx moth, a species with a wingspan as much as 5in across, was reported by a baffled resident as being some sort of bird. 'Amazing but also concerning': weird wildlife ventures to northern Alaska 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z “Unless this is a sphinx moth caterpillar who has been stressed and agitated into displaying its osmeterium,” says Jackson. We Fact-Checked 8 Animal Emojis—Here's What We Found 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z But I doubt you’ve heard of any World Wildlife Fund campaigns to protect the fabulous green sphinx moth, right? Opinion | Teenagers’ View of the News 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z Thousands upon thousands of distinctive, green caterpillars will soon turn into white-lined sphinx moths. Forecast calls for an extra buggy spring and summer 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z He pointed at a black-and-green caterpillar, which before long would become a sphinx moth. The desert is in super bloom at Anza-Borrego state park 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z Yet the adult, the Carolina sphinx moth, is the plant's preferred pollinator. Plant science: The plant as pugilist : Nature : Nature Research 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most egregious example is Hawaii’s fabulous green sphinx moth. Monarch butterfly doesn’t need so much help 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z The white petals on a night-blooming cactus, Ms. Sifton said, attract not the morning bee but a night flyer, the sphinx moth. Planting a Clock That Tracks Hours by Flowers 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z An ordinary chameleon can shoot a fly at the distance of fully 6 in., and it can manage even a big sphinx moth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Any Hummingbird seen east of the Mississippi may, with confidence, be called a Ruby-throat; exceptions will probably prove to be sphinx moths, which, it must be confessed, look singularly hummingbird-like as they hover before flowers. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season Ford M. G.—The specimen you send is a sphinx moth, of which there are several varieties in the United States. Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Note their size and colour, the oblique stripes on the sides, the horn which is used for terrifying assailants, the habit of remaining rigid for hours—hence the name sphinx moth. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Long before his death a sphinx moth arrived from South Brazil which shows a proboscis between ten and eleven inches long—very nearly equal, therefore, to the task of probing the nectary of Angræcum sesquipidale. About Orchids A Chat Oh!" said I, "you mean that big sphinx moth that is commonly known as the 'death's-head moth.' Famous Modern Ghost Stories His long tongue—if he is one of the largest of our sixty-two species of Bombus—can suck almost any flower unless it is especially adapted to night-flying sphinx moths, but can he drain this? Wild Flowers Worth Knowing The bird was the famous Archaeopteryx, found in the Solenhofen slate, and the first butterfly, to use an Irishism, was a moth, a sphinx moth, apparently about the size of the Convolvulus sphinx moth. The Naturalist on the Thames Dozens of sphinx moths—big torpedo-shaped bodies carried by wings of soft brown and dull red—floated about, sipping where and when and as long as they liked. Tropic Days Huber observed that they defend the entrance of their hive against the inroads of the sphinx moth by means of skilful constructions made of wax and propolis. Unconscious Memory See here, Le Bihan," I said; "by a stretch of imagination one can make out a skull on the thorax of a certain big sphinx moth. Famous Modern Ghost Stories Because at dusk, when sphinx moths, large and small, begin to fly, the primrose's special benefactors are abroad. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Any time after four o'clock in the afternoon, according to the light, the sphinx moth, a creature of the gloaming, begins its rounds, to be mistaken for a hummingbird seven times out of ten. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors This beautiful creature has very long and pointed wings, almost resembling a sphinx moth in shape. 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 Late in the afternoon the plaited corolla of this long trumpet-shaped flower expands to welcome the sphinx moths. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors This deep-hued orchid apparently attracts as many butterflies as sphinx moths, which show a predilection for the white species. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors His long tongue - if he is one of the largest of our sixty-two species of Bombus - can suck almost any flower unless it is especially adapted to night-flying sphinx moths, but can he drain this? Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Only sphinx moths can reach its deep well of nectar, from which bees are literally barred out by an inward turn of the stamens toward the center of the tube. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors At dusk, when sphinx moths begin their rounds, it will be noticed that the white and yellow flowers remain conspicuous long after blossoms of other colors have melted into the general darkness. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors From the length and slenderness of its spur it is doubtless adapted to the sphinx moth. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The sphinx moth, one of the lesser of the group. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The sphinx moth, a frequent visitor, works as rapidly in extracting nectar from the deep tube as any hawk moth, so frequently mistaken for a hummingbird. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The long, white, trumpet-shape type of lily chooses for her lover the sphinx moth. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors |
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