| 单词 | stick insect |
| 例句 | The walking stick insect is great at camouflage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The stick insect’s body was long and thin. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I glanced around the walls, which were covered with shallow boxes displaying alarming stick insects and bright multicolored butterflies. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z She’d gotten the idea from the stick insect, but Roz quickly realized that camouflaging herself as a twig was out of the question. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Hello, stick insect, my name is Roz. You are very well camouflaged.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Thank you, stick insect,” said Roz as she placed him back where she found him. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z If you thought the business of making a baby was challenging, consider the stick insect. Sexual Nature of the Animal Kingdom 2011-06-09T14:15:00Z It makes me feel like, maybe you don't have to be a stick insect and you can still feel good about your body. Rihanna: evolution of a style icon 2012-07-17T16:37:03Z We had lots of cats and stick insects. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The Lord Howe Island stick insect, which is from an island off Australia and was thought to have been extinct for decades. Can Art Help Save the Insect World? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z He also turned his attention to series about less fashionable subjects: plants, spiders, stick insects and other invertebrates. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Even invertebrates such as stick insects and hissing cockroaches might approach something like this form of love. Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food? 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z Spall is an abundantly talented actor, clearly, but he's wildly out of place among the aristoprats of densest Wodehouse-ian Shropshire; a lugubrious snail lost, blinking, in a swarm of fidgety stick insects. Blandings is just the ticket, by jove 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z "I was 18, working in a concrete yard, surrounded by big burly men doing manual labour, and I was a stick insect," he recalls. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Relationship patterns among flightless stick insects suggest that birds disperse the eggs after eating gravid females. Death is only the beginning: Birds disperse eaten insects' eggs 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z The experiments involved the researchers keeping the body of the stick insects fixed, and electrically stimulating one out of the three leg muscles to produce walking-like movements. Insect cyborgs: Towards precision movement 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Prior research into the group has suggested that they parasitize the eggs of stick insects, also known as walking sticks. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z “Parthenogenesis is the most effective way to reproduce. In animals, doing sex is very complicated,” says Tanja Schwander, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, who has studied parthenogenesis in stick insects. ‘Virgin Birth’ Engineered into Female Animals for First Time 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Parthenogenesis occurs in invertebrates such as water fleas, rotifers, aphids, stick insects, and ants, wasps, and bees. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Most species of stick insects are flightless, yet they are distributed over wide distances and across geographical features that would impede the expansion of flightless animals. Death is only the beginning: Birds disperse eaten insects' eggs 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z Parthenogenesis occurs in invertebrates such as water flees, rotifers, aphids, stick insects, some ants, wasps, and bees. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z They released her into a plastic container containing soil and placed a stick insect egg inside. 16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Charlie, a green bean stick insect, showed its true colours after it shed its skin at home in Suffolk to reveal the bright green body of a female and brown wings of a male. Natural History Museum confirms stick insect is male and female 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z It is actually quite common for leaf insects — which are a family in the broader order of stick insects — to be known from just one sex. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z It is only because of this quirk in their nature that viable stick insect babies can hatch from the eggs. Death is only the beginning: Birds disperse eaten insects' eggs 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z In 1883, one of the latter’s early editors, the entomologist and palaeontologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder, published a description of a giant fossil stick insect discovered in coal deposits in France by another entomologist, Charles Brongniart. 150 years of scientific illustration 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Gallstone growth, and the reproductive strategies of hitchhiking stick insects. Podcast: Tackling online hate speech, and identifying early fossils 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Her said her son was so excited, she took the stick insect into school to show to the other children. Natural History Museum confirms stick insect is male and female 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Many stick insects display extreme sexual dimorphism, with females unrecognizable from their male companions. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z He has organized six expeditions to the Amazon, Paraná and nature reserves in Rio de Janeiro in the hope of adding more crickets, grasshoppers, mantises and stick insects to the recovering collection. The battle to rebuild centuries of science after an epic inferno 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z PROVIDENCE—True to their name, stick insects are famous for their spindly legs and lithe brown or green bodies that let them blend in with their environments. Thorny devils grow giant legs to pin rivals 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z One early returnee might be the Lord Howe stick insect, long thought extinct. Mass rodent poisoning on this remote Australian island could bring back giant stick insect 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z He described Mrs Garfield's stick insect as "noteworthy". Natural History Museum confirms stick insect is male and female 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z In 2018, Paul Brock, a scientific associate at the Natural History Museum in London who edited a rough draft of the new paper, solved a similar mystery in stick insects. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z The last new order of British insects - stick insects - was added about 100 years ago. New order of insects sets up home in UK 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z But scientists in Japan noticed that despite their camouflage, stick insects became bird food quite frequently. Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In fact, the eggs of many stick insects are similar to seeds in size, color, shape, and texture. Why Stick Insects Might Be Into Birds Eating Their Kids 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z If the strategy is one the insects have used in the past, there should be a correlation between the genetics of various stick insect species and bird flight paths. Stick insects travel long distances—by being eaten by birds 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z He and his colleagues described the first male Acanthoxyla, a genus of stick insect from New Zealand that was thought to be exclusively female, from a specimen found on a car in Cornwall, England. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z This stick insect in the Timema genus reproduces asexually despite a significant genetic cost. Sex pays off for stick insects despite costs 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Some of these eggs, carried inside females in certain stick insect species, also don’t need to be fertilized to hatch into viable offspring. Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The authors note that, in Japan, stick insects produce eggs during the same season that Japanese brown-eared bulbuls migrate en masse—a fortuitous coincidence. Why Stick Insects Might Be Into Birds Eating Their Kids 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Farkas has these questions about evolution and ecology at the front of his mind as he beats the bushes around Santa Barbara and sorts his stick insects. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Dr. Brock has seen wild stick insects, but never a wild leaf insect. He Was a Stick, She Was a Leaf; Together They Made History 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Jens Bast at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and his colleagues extracted RNA from ten species of stick insect in the genus Timema. Sex pays off for stick insects despite costs 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z An earlier hypothesis is that the thickness and shape of stick insect eggs protects them from parasitic wasps. Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Clearly, for a lucky few stick insects, consumption is not the end, just half of one. Why Stick Insects Might Be Into Birds Eating Their Kids 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z The coloration of stick insects such as this Timema bartmani help it to hide, but might also affect the local ecology.Credit: How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z A large stick insect from a remote Australian island is back from the dead. Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But these critters didn't look like old stick insect museum specimens, leaving scientists wondering. Top stories: Science Nobels, a giant insect back from the dead, and how Neandertal DNA makes you fat 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Twenty percent made it through, and two of those hatched, proving that it was possible for birds that consumed stick insects to drop their eggs like seeds to new locations. Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once declared extinct, still lives. DNA confirms amazing Australian isle insect not extinct after all 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z It took Timothy Farkas less than a week to catch and relocate 1,500 stick insects in the Santa Ynez mountains in southern California. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Atop a tea tree, 213 feet above sea level, sat a few living examples of what appeared to be Lord Howe Island stick insects. Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack. Top stories: Science Nobels, a giant insect back from the dead, and how Neandertal DNA makes you fat 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z They now want to determine whether stick insects share similar genes in different locations along the birds’ migration flight paths. Stick Insects Are Easy Bird Food, and That Might Help Them Reproduce 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once declared extinct, still lives. DNA confirms amazing Australian isle insect not extinct after all 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z That low-tech approach dislodged hordes of stick insects that the team easily plucked off the dirt. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The stick insect was eventually classified as extinct in 1983, along with 12 other insect species and five bird species. Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insect population plummeted. This giant Australian insect is still alive, despite being declared extinct nearly a century ago 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Scientists in China report that they've found the world's longest insect — a new species of stick insect of the genus Phryganistria that measures over half a meter. World's longest insect is twice the length of your worst nightmare 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z At the end of another busy, busy day being a role model to stick insects the world over, I’m ready for a little downtime. It's All Easy by Gwyneth Paltrow – digested read 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Farkas and his fellow ecologists knew that the stick insects had evolved to blend in with their surroundings. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z This debate matters for conservation purposes, particularly on Lord Howe Island, where the Australian government plans to eradicate the invasive rat population—and possibly reintroduce the stick insects. Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z But these critters didn’t look identical to old stick insect museum specimens, leaving scientists wondering whether they were the same species. This giant Australian insect is still alive, despite being declared extinct nearly a century ago 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He hopes to build something like the stick insect in robot form to use for further studies. Stick insect helps scientists study how animals move. 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The journey to this split involves shipwrecks, the world’s largest stick insect, the psychology of small islands and a touch of conspiracy. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Birds drawn to bushes with mismatched stick insects stuck around to eat other residents, such as caterpillars and beetles, stripping some plants clean. How warp-speed evolution is transforming ecology 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z It's hard to miss a Lord Howe Island stick insect, sometimes called a "tree lobster." Huge 'Tree Lobster' Not Extinct After All 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z How Insects' Legs Can Improve Man-Made Materials: lessons from the biomechanics of locusts, bees, stick insects, and cockroaches. Physics Week in Review: August 1, 2015 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The name of this stick insect is nearly as long as its body. 'Dementor' wasp among 139 new species found in Mekong - CBBC Newsround 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z The Lord Howe Island stick insect – also known as the Lord Howe Island phasmid or “tree lobster” – was presumed extinct. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps you have seen a stick insect sitting on a stick, or a leaf-shaped katydid hanging from a branch—but probably you have not, so well do they blend in. A Beginner’s Guide to Invisibility 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z With six legs, elastic joints and a long, articulated body, Hector is the first robot modeled on a stick insect. Robot Leads a Six-Legged Race for Knowledge 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Humble stick insects may hold the answer to that long-running question in biology. Is Evolution Predictable? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The newly discovered species — an extinct, distant relative of living stick insects — dates to the early Cretaceous Period, roughly 126 million years ago. Fossil Match-up Suggests Ancient Stick Insect Mimicked Gingko Relative 2014-03-24T20:28:00Z The largest stick insect in the world, it was a regular meal for hungry rats, and within two years of the invasion, sightings of the once common insect had ceased. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Rob Clamp: "A stick insect clinging to fence wire, hanging upside down." Your pictures: Upside down 2013-09-26T08:11:55Z The gut of the Giant Lime Green stick insect could hold the key to antibiotic resistance A microbe in the gut of a stick insect could help scientists to unravel the puzzle of antibiotic resistance. Stick insect leads antibiotic hunt 2013-08-31T23:00:47Z In addition, Nosil’s team transplanted hundreds of individual stick insects onto the plant they weren’t adapted to and collected the offspring a year later. Is Evolution Predictable? 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Jungle nymph stick insects, waxy monkey frogs and giant African land snails were among creatures being measured up. In Pictures: Weigh-in at London Zoo 2013-08-21T14:31:16Z There are some in enclosures on the island where the stick insects are breeding, but until the rats are gone, this strange, ancient creature cannot live free. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The overall winner of the BMC Ecology's Image Competition was this picture of a cleverly disguised stick insect. Pictures: Wonders of nature photos 2013-03-22T11:15:02Z We have discovered the microbe in the stick insect's gut is resistant to toxins and infections it could never have been exposed to. Stick insect leads antibiotic hunt 2013-08-31T23:00:47Z The problem is that these stick insects live in tropical America, on the other side of the world, raising the question of how two insects so far apart might share a similar trait. 'Mystery' stick insect discovered 2012-09-04T03:04:40Z Credit: Nicholas Carlile Hollow sections of Banyan Figs for the captive stick insects. Lord Howe Island stick insects are going home 2012-08-22T17:15:03.077Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lord Howe Island stick insects are prepared for a flight to San Diego where they will be housed and bred in a zoo. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Scientists in Canada investigated the DNA of Timema stick insects, which live in shrubland around the west coast of the US. Insect's million sex-free years 2011-07-19T09:23:55Z In the last decade, scientists have identified and debated several attributes that have apparently "re-evolved" over time including stick insect's wings, coiling in limpet shells, larval stages of salamanders and lost digits in lizards. Frogs re-evolved lost lower teeth 2011-01-31T08:40:23Z "The new stick insect is wingless, with a stout body and rather short legs," says Mr Gottardo. 'Mystery' stick insect discovered 2012-09-04T03:04:40Z Soon, sightings of the Lord Howe Island stick insect declined to such an extent that by 1920, not a single one was found, and by 1960, they were declared extinct. Lord Howe Island stick insects are going home 2012-08-22T17:15:03.077Z Meanwhile, Cleave says the jet-setting stick insects have arrived in San Diego and are enjoying their new home. Trouble in paradise: Lord Howe Island divided over plan to exterminate rats 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The team discovered that five of the asexual stick insects were "ancient", dating back more than 500,000 years. Insect's million sex-free years 2011-07-19T09:23:55Z Everywhere galvanized-steel sprinkler systems crawl across farm fields like giant stick insects. Financial Overhaul Hits Farmers 2010-07-14T14:18:00Z The leaf and stick insects are of great variety and beauty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Lord Howe Island stick insect enclosure on the forest edge of Lord Howe Island. Lord Howe Island stick insects are going home 2012-08-22T17:15:03.077Z But sharp-eyed birds, with senses quickened by hunger, the true mother of invention, must learn at last to pierce such flimsy disguises, and suspect a stick insect in the most innocent-looking and apparently rigid twigs. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Such are the water-bugs, water-scorpions and stick insects, which, though slender as rushes, and with limbs like hairs, can catch and kill the fry of the smaller fishes. The Naturalist on the Thames The wonderful "stick insects" in like manner mimic the twigs of the trees among which they lurk. The Naturalist in Nicaragua A fowl that will attack an 8-inch centipede without hesitation, makes a sensational fuss and clatter when it detects a stick insect, especially when the stick insect feints, however ineffectually, with its perfectly harmless tail. Confessions of a Beachcomber Among the branches of a shrub her action is cautious and stealthy; but the stick insect is seldom to be caught napping. Confessions of a Beachcomber Thus, there are stick insects which only look like long round cylinders, not obviously stick-shaped, but rudely resembling a bit of wood in outline only. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Few insects repay observation better than the mantis and the stick insect, which generally, of most voracious habits themselves, resort to all manner of disguises and devices to elude their enemies and lure their prey. Confessions of a Beachcomber |
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