10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPECKLED WOOD»
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speckled wood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
speckled wood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hearing in the
Speckled Wood Butterfly, Pararge Aegeria ...
Research on butterfly communication has focused primarily on vision and chemoreception, while the role of hearing remains largely unexplored.
Shannon J. Mahony, ProQuest Co, Carleton University. Dissertation. Biology, 2007
Nick Davies, of the Edward Grey Institute in Oxford was able to provide a
beautiful example of the bourgeois strategy. Davies studied the speckled wood
butterfly, quite plentiful in the Oxfordshire woods. Sun filtering through the trees
creates a ...
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Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight
The speckled wood butterfly, Pararge aegeria (L.), is such a species. The
underlying working hypothesis is that the observed links between morphology
and mate location behavior reflect variation in morphological adaptedness to the
different ...
Carol L. Boggs, Ward B. Watt, Paul R. Ehrlich, 2003
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Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and Conservation: The ...
Two resident species, the small heath (Figure 10.1) and speckled wood, can also
be seen during much of the spring, summer and autumn. Both of these butterflies
have complex life cycles with overlapping generations. They are able to ...
E. Pollard, T.J. Yates, 1994
Some invertebrates such as butterflies, moths and flies favour clearings, for
example, the speckled wood (Species Box 3.11). Even some of the true
woodland invertebrates require nectar for the adult stages so gaps can be
important to them.
Mark Frater, Helen J. Read, 2005
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Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language
Let a single howler male approach, however, and the whole family will begin
roaring and rattling the branches. Across the Atlantic Ocean, another turf war is
raging, in the forests of northern Europe. The speckled wood butterfly is a species
that ...
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Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern ...
Morong SPECKLED WOOD LILY Liliaceae (Lily family) Description: Perennial
herb with 2–5 (usually 3) basal leaves from 6 to 12 in. long, elliptic to ovate with
long hairs on leaf margins. Flowers with similar petals and sepals (3 each), white
...
As it turned out, Davies' conclusions regarding uncorrelated asymmetries in the
speckled wood butterfly have been largely overturned over the last several
decades, as more information has accumulated on the dynamics of territorial ...
Ian C. W. Hardy, Mark Briffa, 2013
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The armorial bearings of the several incorporated companies ...
On Easter Tuesday, 1673, " Whereas complaint was made of some of the
company for speckling of wood to make it looke like reall speckled wood, and to
place it in worke by them made, making the Kings subjects believe the same to
be reall, ...
James Walker (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.), Moses Aaron Richardson, 1824
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The armorial bearings of the ... incorporated companies of ...
On Easter Tuesday, 1673, " Whereas complaint was made of some of the
company for speckling of wood to make it looke like reall speckled wood, and to
place it in worke by them made, making the Kings subjects believe the same to
be reall, ...
James Walker, Moses Aaron Richardson, 1824
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPECKLED WOOD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
speckled wood is used in the context of the following news items.
The Big Butterfly Count: Spend your summer among beautiful …
Other attractive insect species that can also be spotted on coastal walks include the marbled white, speckled wood, gatekeeper, six-spot burnet and the common ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
Free guided walk with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust
"Hopefully, species which walkers can expect to see during the walk include the distinctive brimstone butterfly, speckled wood and holly blue." The walk is part of ... «Staff Newsletter, Jul 15»
Simon's Blog - Big Butterfly Count 2015
... the Speckled Wood was up 28 per cent and the Small Tortoiseshell had risen by 22 per cent. Last summer was also good for the Peacock, which was the most ... «ITV News, Jul 15»
Butterflies at home in the Wood
A speckled wood. A well-named butterfly because it loves dappled woodland. It was a male. I knew this because only the males indulge in these territorial fights ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
Amanda Scott: In search of the bee-fly on the Lizard
A speckled wood butterfly mobbed me single-handedly as I walked through its patch while its gentler small white cousins looked on. The ox-eye daisies were ... «Western Morning News, Jul 15»
Another Life: Our ash tree is now firewood to warm us. Let's hope the …
Here in south Mayo I had to wait until June 10th for a first speckled wood, the one reliable butterfly on our increasingly shadowy acre. In southern Britain just ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
One in the eye for the attacker
“So Wall Brown and Speckled Wood have the best array of false eyes, and in response to that they are quite often the most cut up by near miss bird attacks. «East Lothian News, Jun 15»
What plants will atttract butterflies to the garden?
Grasses:Several garden butterflies (small and large skipper, meadow brown, gatekeeper and speckled wood) eat wild grasses. If you leave long grass, there's a ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Faugheen turns Punchestown Champion Hurdle into a procession
Gavin Cromwell's pride and joy pinged the last and the 8-1 chance held off the late rally of Speckled Wood, with Burn And Turn one-paced back in third. «Irish Times, May 15»
Inspector'ssuggestionsfor woodland
A campaign group says it is celebrating after a Government Planning Inspector recommended that the area of Speckled Wood in the Ore Valley be designated ... «Hastings and St. Leonards Observer, Mar 15»
