| 单词 | pronuba moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspronuba moth 2. In full pronuba moth. Any of several small, white, North American moths of the former genus Pronuba (now Tegeticula, family Incurvariidae or Prodoxidae), which pollinate yucca plants; esp. the yucca moth, T. yuccasella. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of genus Pronuba or Tegeticula (yucca-moth) pronuba1872 yucca-moth1892 1872 Nature 26 Sept. 444/1 The larva of Pronuba eats through the Yucca capsule in which it fed, enters the ground and hibernates there. 1905 V. L. Kellogg Amer. Insects xvi. 577 (caption) Pronuba-moth depositing eggs in ovary of Yucca. 1929 W. J. Robbins & H. W. Rickett Botany xxvi. 437 Without the Pronuba moth the Yucca would not produce seeds. 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) ii. 24 The smoky little Pronuba moths..come to the blossoms, mate there, hover and hide and perform small extraordinary rites without which no Joshua tree would stand and brandish arms at heaven. 2002 Fort Collins Coloradoan (Nexis) 6 Dec. 11 e He..first described the role of the pronuba moth in pollinating yuccas. < as lemmas |
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