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.
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Pyralis
Synonyms for "pyralis" (6 found)
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10 entriesappearance propertybiological taxoncolor descriptordescriptornomenclature labelpropertyqualitytaxonomic nametaxonomic rankvisual descriptor
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5 entriesPyralis farinalisfiery colorflame colororange huered hue
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12 entriesPyralis farinalisPyralis genusPyralis life cyclePyralis speciesmeal moth genuspyralis appearancepyralis colorpyralis emissionpyralis flamepyralis spectrumpyralis traitsnout moth genus
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2 entriesmore pyralismost pyralis
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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.
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When a pyralis female sees a flash of the appropriate characteristics, she waits 2 seconds and then emits her own half-second flash.
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This once happened in a hemp field destroyed by a pyralis, described by me in a special memoir.
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