pyralis

Example Sentences

• "As Loeb has shown by many experiments, the phototropic phenomena of animals differ not at all from those of plants, and they carry no more psychism in a polyp or in a pyralis than in a geranium or in a volvox."
• "If you have an opportunity to experiment with Photinus pyralis, try the following: Start a male toward you by answering him properly, that is, as a pyralis female would answer him, once or twice."
• "When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash."
• "This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir."
• "At first there was a belief that the caterpillar was that of a pyralis like that which caused such great loss to beet growers in southern Russia, Roumania and North America."
• "What would have been the opinion of the public, seeing e.g. a butterfly and a pyralis placed in the same genus ?"