In the immense class of insects the sexes sometimes differ in their locomotive-organs, and often in their sense-organs, as in the pectinated and beautifully plumose antennae of the males of many species.
As stated in a previous chapter, similar observations have been made on the hairs of the antennae of gnats.
Mayer has recently ascertained that the hairs on the antennae of the male vibrate in unison with the notes of a tuning-fork, within the range of the sounds emitted by the female.
In some of the lower crustaceans, the right anterior antenna of the male differs greatly in structure from the left, the latter resembling in its simple tapering joints the antennae of the female.
In another family the inferior or posterior antennaeare "curiously zigzagged" in the males alone.
National Museum, the female on a tag, the antennae and a caudal leg on a slide.
National Museum, the females on tags, a fore wing and an antennae on a slide.
The club is usually single, the antennae 11-jointed, tapering-filiform.
An ingenious writer would even have us believe that ants possess a scent-language of their own, and emit various odours from their antennae which the other ants perceive with theirs, and recognise as distinct in meaning.
The message goes quickly round from post to post, each sentry making passes with his antennae to the next picket, and so sending on the news to the main body in the rear.
They rush about wildly, inquiring of one another with their antennaewhether this is really Doomsday, and whether the whole course of nature has been suddenly revolutionised.
Wings without tails, the anterior externally dentated, the posterior short and rounded, the margin scolloped; Antennae long.
Antennae cylindrical, thickening from the base: the tip truncate.
Antennae filiform, thickened in the middle; posterior wings with long pointed tails.
Wings coppery: the male with two discoid black dots on the anterior, and one on the posterior wings: club of the antennae elongated and fusiform.
Antennae with a lengthened club, either cylindrical or compressed.
Antennae with the club abrupt, and more or less compressed anterior wings trigonal, posterior rounded; Palpi as in Colias, but the scales intermixed with hairs.
Such antennae also receive more readily those signals which come from the direction away from which they are pointing.
Then, antennae can be so constructed that messages can be received with most readiness from one particular direction.
Antennae made with a short vertical part and a long horizontal part radiate best in the direction away from which their horizontal part points.
Their antennaewaved wildly, and the infrequent wounded one, limping back toward the city, was instantly and repeatedly challenged by the advancing insects.
The long, whiplike antennae lay upon the carpet of mold and rust, and the fiercely toothed legs were drawn close against the body.
Burl was their leader, and was distinguished solely by two three-foot stumps of the feathery, golden antennae of a night-flying moth he had bound to his forehead.
The slender antennae spread out and wavered gently in the warm air.
Twin taperingantennae appeared, and then a monster beetle lurched into the open space, its horrible, gaping jaws stretched wide.
Instead of telling them in his usual vainglorious fashion of the adventures he had undergone, he merely cast down the two long and tapering antennae from the flying beetle that he had torn from its dead body.
Burl stood still, drooping in discouragement upon his spear, the feathery moth's antennae bound upon his forehead shadowed darkly against the graying sky.
Presently an ant drew near and extended inquisitive antennae at the helpless monster wounded to death.
They crossed their antennae upon his, and required thorough evidence that he was of the proper city before allowing him to proceed.
He squatted upon the ground in the dim radiance of the shining toadstool, his moth-wing cloak wrapped about him, his spear in his hand, and his twin golden plumes of the moth's antennae bound to his forehead.
The earth crumbled, and fell into an invisible opening, then a dark chasm appeared, and two slender, threadlike antennae peered out.
He set off at random, with the leg of the huge insect flung over his shoulder and the long antennae clasped in his hand with his spear.
As if they had given some reassuring sign, two slender antennae followed, then bulging eyes, and then a small black body which had bright-red scalloped markings upon the wing-cases.
A second and third warrior came from the inside of the ant-hill, and ran with tiny clickings about the hillock, waving their antennae restlessly, searching, ever searching for a menace to their city.
They ran hither and thither in the greatest terror, striking their antennae one against the other.
Piccolissima had hardly uttered these words, when the fly, whoseantennae were longer than usual, and were turned towards the little prattler, gave such a leap that Mademoiselle Tom Thumb trembled.
The ant, clinging to the earth with his hind legs, stood up straight, and threw out his antennae with a terrible expression.
They had oval eyes, with a network over them; a protruding jaw; antennae of twelve olive scales, terminated by a button.
She immediately regained her place, and tried to understand what important and terrible news was being communicated from antennae to antennae, drawing together such a number of insects, with their frightful jaws all opened.
The antennaeare long and have white markings upon them.
The very arched body is characteristic of Armadillidium, and so is the groove into which the basal joints of the antennae fit when the creatures curl up.
Flagellum with 2 joints; antennae folded together over the thorax when the animal is rolled up into a ball Cylisticus.
Flagellum with 2 joints; antennae hidden or carried at the sides of the head when the animal is rolled up into a ball Armadillidium.
The genus Ligia agrees with Ligidium alone, in that the flagellum of the larger antennae has more than ten joints.
In Trichoniscus vividus the antennae lack the bristles which characterise those of the other species in the genus.
Woodlice dropped into this weak spirit become gradually narcotised and die, and they remain limp enough for purposes of examination or to allow, of their legs and antennae being set out during the process of mounting.
The antennae are fairly long and while the two joints of the flagellum are nearly equal they are together not so long as the last peduncular joint.
The species can roll itself up into a very perfect sphere, and when it assumes this form its antennae are hidden beneath the much expanded lateral plates of the first thoracic segment.
Consequently the species which we are considering does not produce a perfect sphere, and the antennae are not hidden when it rolls up.
The larger antennae are customarily bent at certain points, and we can distinguish a terminal part, or flagellum, and a basal part, the peduncle (fig.
Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii is small and white and the edges of its side plates are toothed, but it is oval in shape, possesses no eyes, and its stout antennae have but a single joint to the flagellum instead of four.
The broad body, which is much flattened, and the very thick antennaedistinguish Platyarthrus from the other small woodlice (Trichoniscidae).
It was upon this that the swiftly moving car caught signals from antennae stretched across the hall.
I've got his location approximately, but in the neighborhood where he should be I haven't been able to locate any antennae to indicate the presence of a radio station.
In the first place, the antennae are short and thick; if they protruded forward to a great length, as in Longicornes, they would seriously impede the freedom of action, which is the life and joy of this nimble fellow.
Each wing case is marked with dotted lines, the breast is dingy yellow, and the antennae and organs of the mouth dull red.
The antennae have a flattened, scale-like exopodite, probably of use for keeping the animal balanced in swimming.
The antennules are very large, unbranched and composed of numerous segments; theantennae are much smaller.
The latter are held out stiffly while the animal swims by rapid movements of the antennae and mouth parts, making occasional sudden leaps by means of its oar-like feet.
It has the antennae shorter than in Ligia, and the flagellum is composed of only three segments.
The antennaehave no exopodite, although in a few other Isopods a minute vestige is present.
It is dependent on its antennaefor guiding it in safe places.
In these the carapace fuses with all the thoracic somites, the eyes are stalked, the antennules have two flagella, and the antennae have a broad scale.
It is interesting to notice that the antennae and mandibles, which in the adult animal are so widely different that it is difficult to trace any resemblance between them, are in the nauplius almost identical in form.
There are two pairs of swimming limbs, each with endopodite and exopodite, and the short antennules and antennae are seen on either side of the rostrum.
But ants from different nests, deprived of their antennae only as far as the sixth joint, straightway start to fighting like cats and dogs; and never leave off till they are all killed or disabled.
On the other hand, ants from different nests, which have lost the whole of their antennae down to the fourth joint, live together in perfect peace and harmony.
Huber has related an account of some interesting experiments of his on a hive of bees, which strikingly proves that the antennae are really organs for the transmission of intelligence.
But it must not be supposed that all antennae are similar in form, or there would be a risk of their being continually mistaken by the reader for some other organ.
From these and the preceding remarks, it becomes manifest, that, next to the organs of sight, the antennae are most important and useful appendages to the body of the insect.
That the antennae are the organs by which this knowledge of coming events with regard to the weather is obtained by the insects, appears probable.
All who have paid any attention to the motions of insects must have seen the antennae actually employed as it were in exploring the number or nature of objects immediately around.
The powerful antennae of the Eiffel Tower, of Ireland, of Germany, of Italy, or of Constantinople dominate with their noisy throats the feeble whispers.
The head and antennae fit exactly between the closed upper wings so as not to interfere with the outline, which has just that amount of irregular curvature that is seen in dry and withered leaves.
Branchipus stagnalis, which had always been considered to belong to a different genus on account of differences in the form of the antennae and of the posterior segments of the body (see Fig.
In one of these groups, the antennae are formed of at least six joints, and the palpi of four or five: these are called Nemocera.
The Empusa, which forms another genus of Mantidae, has the antennae indented like a comb in the males, thread-like in the females.
The antennae are more or less swollen out in the middle or before their extremities, and, independently of that, sometimes prismatic, sometimes cylindrical, sometimes pectinated or indented.
The genus Cerambyx has the antennae very long; they exceed in some of the species two or three times the length of the body.
Latreille having torn the antennae from an ant, saw another approach the poor wounded one, and pour, with its tongue, a few drops of a yellow liquid on the bleeding wound.
The male is smaller; its wings are tinged with grey, its antennae blackish; it moves about, beats its wings together, and is lively and petulant.
It is only three or four lines in length, of a golden green, with the palpi ferruginous, antennae brown, and feet black.
It then passed to a third, which it cajoled as it had the preceding ones, giving it many little strokes with its antennae near the hinder extremity of its body; the liquid came out immediately, and the ant picked it up.
In the next group of the Brachycera the sucker is composed of four bristles, and the antennae generally terminate in a point which appears to be rather a development than an appendage.
If, some days before the transformation of the caterpillar into a chrysalis, it is dissected, the rudiments of wings and antennae may be discovered.
The antennaeare short, with a globular second articulation, and a small terminal hair.
We give as examples the antennaeof two beetles, one of the genus Asida, the other of the genus Zygia (Figs.
One recognises the head, which is then resting on the thorax; the two eyes and the antennae (Fig.
For answer the lieutenant pointed her antennae straight ahead.
Then he saw that the antennae served a very real purpose.
The mind possesses antennae which perceive at a distance before consciousness is able to touch and consider the object.
And the finest of all antennae are those of vanity.
Adenara, is of peculiar interest, since in the absence of coxal pores, and the length and multi-articulation of the antennae and tarsal segments, it approaches more nearly to Scutigera than does any other pleurostigmous Chilopod.
The legs and antennaein the adult are extremely long and many jointed.
There are no eyes, and the antennae consist invariably of fourteen segments.
The antennae are many-jointed, and there is a single ocellus or a cluster of ocelli on each side of the head.
The antennae consist of a number of segments varying from seventeen to about thirty, and usually differing in the individuals of a species.
Head as long as broad; antennaewith all the joints flattened, serrated on each side; 11-jointed, third to 9th joints widest.
This differs from Australica in having the thorax narrower, and the antennae longer and less thickened at the end.
Head black, face and orbits of the eyes white, antennae and palpi black.
Head, thorax, and abdomen grey above, whitish below; antennae black, ringed with white.
Antennae elongate, with a fusiform club much hooked at the extremity.
In figure 4a are well seen the beautifully pectinated lamellae of the antennae in this genus.
Some were walking slowly about, others were brushing theirantennae with their forefeet; but the drollest sight was their cleaning one another.
This led to his being denounced as dangerous to society; one night his door was broken open and his papers were examined, but nothing more incriminating was found than his works on the antennae of insects and the roots of words.
By the time he was eighteen he was so accomplished a naturalist that he brought out a work on the antennaeof insects and their organs of hearing.
Burl was now a still more curious sight as a gayly colored object with a cloak shining in iridescent colors, the golden antennae of a great moth rising from his forehead, and the hideous bulk of a gray spider for a burden.
By thousands and millions, myriads upon myriads, they were foraging the country, clambering upon every eminence, descending into every depression, their antennae waving restlessly and their mandibles forever threateningly extended.
Feathery antennae of the finest lace spread out before the head of the peacock moth, and its body was softest, richest velvet.
It lay helpless upon the earth, only the stumps of its antennae moving restlessly, and its abdomen pulsating slowly as it drew pain-racked breaths.
An angry, foot-long ant stood before him, its mandibles extended threateningly, while its antennaewaved wildly in the air.
At last, above the crest of the last hillock he had surmounted, two tiny antennae appeared, then the black glistening head of an army ant, the forerunner of its horde.
Through the scuttle of the roof he came, making his way over to the chimney to which the wireless antennae were fastened.
Far overhead, on the cliff over the falls, were the antennae of the wireless.
The antennae of the male are pectinated; those of the female simple.
Their hind wings are generally paler than the front pair, and less distinctly marked; and the antennae of the males are pectinated.
The male is much inferior in size, and its antennae are very strongly pectinated.
The antennae are red, short, and beautifully curved; but, unlike the two preceding species, the legs are almost white.
Their wings are more or less angulated; and theantennae are generally pectinated in the males.
The antennae of the males are pectinated, and those of the females simple; and in three cases the latter sex is wingless.
Similar observations have led many naturalists to suppose that the antennae are the seat of various senses, such as those of touch, hearing, and smell.
Plate XII, and the female may be distinguished from it by her simple antennae and larger body.
Their antennae are thickened toward the end, but terminate in a small curved bristle.
The antennae proceed from two points close to the upper borders of the eyes.
In moths the antennae are sometimes long, slender, and pointed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antennae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
