Moreover, spinning the thread costs the caterpillars but little; indeed, the loopers economise this thread so badly that most of them leave it behind them wherever they go.
The caterpillars of the Geometrinae are known by the name of loopers or geometers.
The larvæ of the Minores and Quadrifidæ are as a rule semi-loopers when adult and may be true loopers when young, although further observations on this point are wanted.
And we found it quite true that the loopers were not dead, but they were paralyzed!
For days and weeks together the wasp grub will nibble away on the helpless loopers until all five are eaten alive!
But why should the loopers be only paralyzed instead of killed?
And if the loopers were simply put in alive, not paralyzed, wouldn't their violent squirming in the hole surely crush the delicate egg or the more delicate newly hatched wasp grub?
If our guns are loaded with loopers that will not be difficult," said Pereira.
With loopers you would seldom kill a bird, mynheer," I replied, "for they come over from seventy to a hundred yards up.
Afterwards, however, one of my voor-loopers reported that he had seen two waggons yesterday afternoon trekking through the poort about five miles to the north there.
We heard her crying often, and one of the Kaffir voor-loopers of their two waggons told a Cape boy who was in our service that the old Baas would kill the little white thing one of these days.
He would undertake to deliver the letter, but he objected to the company of the coloured voor-loopers or the Kaffir driver.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loopers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
