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Black with bright yellow legs, the flying insect would hover at the hive entrance, capture a flying honeybee and butcher it before darting off with the bee’s thorax, the meatiest bit.
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Hannah Hoag, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
The heart gets not one but two bags: a tough outer fibrous pericardium and a serous pericardium, protecting the heart and fixing it firmly in place in our constantly moving thorax.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2023
While many beetles may look similar, Japanese beetles are known for their metallic green thoraxes, the section of the body between the head and abdomen, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
In a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its thorax.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
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Hannah Hoag, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
The heart gets not one but two bags: a tough outer fibrous pericardium and a serous pericardium, protecting the heart and fixing it firmly in place in our constantly moving thorax.
—Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2023
While many beetles may look similar, Japanese beetles are known for their metallic green thoraxes, the section of the body between the head and abdomen, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
—Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
In a new summer exhibit to celebrate cicadas at the Bess Bower Dunn Museum of Lake County, Hurley pointed to a mural of a ghostly white cicada shedding its exoskeleton with two black spots on its thorax.
—Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2024
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“Thorax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thorax. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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