Sentence Examples

  • They fly about from July till October, living upon the sap of the vine, which is sucked up by the rostrum from the leaves or buds.
  • Its rostrum is unusually long, being five-sixths of the body length in the female, and slightly shorter in the male.
  • Rostrum free, not supported by either the prosternum or the basal segments of the appendages.
  • Within the groove of the rostrum two pairs of slender piercers - often barbed at the tip - work to and fro.
  • The point of the rostrum is pressed against the surface to be pierced; then the stylets come into play and the fluid food is believed to pass into the mouth by capillary attraction.
 
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