Meaning of pyralis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A species of firefly, Photinus pyralis
2. A moth of the genus Pyralis.

Examples

“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 ?”

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