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Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert has a bone to pick with the Ohio Supreme Court over its ruling in a boneless chicken wing case.
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Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024
End-Triassic sediments also contain an abundance of insect remains—pieces of legs, butterfly wing scales, and a lot of beetle wing cases.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
This fly is a riot of strike triggers—the twin, pointy tails; the tapered, finely segmented, softly shiny abdomen; the fuzzy iridescent peacock herl thorax; the prominent hard wing case; the banded, wavy hackle fibers, and the bead itself.
—Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
This oddball strategy seems to work for the jewel beetle (Sternocera aequisignata), a super-sparkly insect famous for the dazzling, emerald-toned wing case that adorns its exterior.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
Birds were up to three times less likely to find worms in the iridescent wing cases than in the noniridescent ones, the team reports today in Current Biology.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
To find out, researchers filled nearly 900 jewel beetle wing cases, some naturally iridescent (above) and some painted with plain colors, with worms.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
Humans had trouble too: People in the park were up to six times less likely to find the iridescent wing cases than the plain ones—and the glossier the leaves, the harder the task.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
So too are the birds-head earrings and the gown embroidered with iridescent beetle-wing cases.
—Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
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Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024
End-Triassic sediments also contain an abundance of insect remains—pieces of legs, butterfly wing scales, and a lot of beetle wing cases.
—Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2023
This fly is a riot of strike triggers—the twin, pointy tails; the tapered, finely segmented, softly shiny abdomen; the fuzzy iridescent peacock herl thorax; the prominent hard wing case; the banded, wavy hackle fibers, and the bead itself.
—Field & Stream, 13 Oct. 2020
This oddball strategy seems to work for the jewel beetle (Sternocera aequisignata), a super-sparkly insect famous for the dazzling, emerald-toned wing case that adorns its exterior.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2020
Birds were up to three times less likely to find worms in the iridescent wing cases than in the noniridescent ones, the team reports today in Current Biology.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
To find out, researchers filled nearly 900 jewel beetle wing cases, some naturally iridescent (above) and some painted with plain colors, with worms.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
Humans had trouble too: People in the park were up to six times less likely to find the iridescent wing cases than the plain ones—and the glossier the leaves, the harder the task.
—Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
So too are the birds-head earrings and the gown embroidered with iridescent beetle-wing cases.
—Susan Delson, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
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“Wing case.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wing%20case. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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