Example sentences for: caterpillars

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  • Some snake bottles also contain the caterpillars ( Battus polydamus , Papilionidae) [ 13 ] that eat tref leaves ( Aristolochia trilobata ). The leaf juice of Eclipta prostrata is used for scorpion stings.

  • Without caterpillars, the tits cannot produce the bright yellow breast feathers they need to do the dance and thus cannot attract mates.

  • Some hairy caterpillars have urticating hairs, which can cause severe skin reactions and pain [ 9 ] . It is not known what effect if any the caterpillar venom has on the snake bit remedy.

  • Worse, toxins from the plant have greatly reduced the availability of a staple of the tits' diet: green caterpillars.

  • Diapausing embryos of the orthopteran Austroicetes cruciata undergo slow development for the first two months of diapause, before entering a resting stage [ 24 ] . Similarly, caterpillars of Cirphus unipunctata and Laphygma exigua continue to feed and develop during diapause, albeit at a much-reduced rate [ 25 ] , and caterpillars of the corn-stalk borer Sesamia nonagriodes undergo non-stationary moults during diapause [ 26 ] . These examples hint that the expression of diapause-controlled dormancy may vary between species [ 2 ] . Consequently, diapause could be considered extreme regulation of developmental rate, rather than a shutting down of morphological development.


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