Infrared Moonset on Universe Today « luna noctiluca Says. From Wordnik.com. [Infrared Moonset | Universe Today] Reference
There are these little single celled organisms called noctiluca. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
Shrimp eat noctiluca, so they evolved the ability, giving away the shrimp's position so that cuttlefish and other predators could catch them. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
The fish and other animals that swim in these waters at night aggitate the noctiluca and the waters glow with what look like the ghosts of fish. From Wordnik.com. [nessus Diary Entry] Reference
In 2007, an invasion of mauve stingers Pelagia noctiluca. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Ouch! Blog] Reference
'It is already known that Pelagia noctiluca and similar jellyfish reproduce more quickly in warmer waters. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The mauve stingers - or Pelagia noctiluca - are tiny but can cover hundreds of thousands of square miles in a single 'bloom'. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The lethal mauve stingers - Pelagia noctiluca in Latin - are tiny but can cover hundreds of thousands of square miles in one "bloom". From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
While people bathing in the waters off the UK coast are in no serious danger yet from the Pelagia noctiluca, fish farms and other businesses could be affected. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
'Climate driven changes in sea surface currents could carry more Pelagia noctiluca into coastal seas where food resources are higher, promoting jellyfish blooms. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Dr Kirby said: 'By studying plankton samples we have shown that the warm-water jellyfish called Pelagia noctiluca appears to be the main species present in our samples when large blooms of jellyfish occur in the north east Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
Lampyris italica, L. noctiluca.) is in Italy and in all the south of Europe, but the picturesque effect it produces cannot be compared to those innumerable, scattered, and moving lights, which embellish the nights of the torrid zone, and seem to repeat on the earth, along the vast extent of the savannahs, the brilliancy of the starry vault of heaven. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
Lampyris noctiluca. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
Switzerland, we find among them, mingled with genera now wholly foreign to Europe, some very familiar forms, such as the common glowworm, Lampyris noctiluca, Linn., the dung-beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, Linn., the ladybird, Coccinella septempunctata. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
Each time, each turning, his own blood and heart are stroked, beaten, brought jubilantly high, and triggered to the icy noctiluca, to flare and fusing Thermite as he begins to expand, an uncontainable light, as the walls of the chamber turn a blood glow, orange, then white and begin to slip, to flow like wax, what there is of labyrinth collapsing in rings outward, hero and horror, engineer and Ariadne consumed, molten inside the light of himself, the mad exploding of himself. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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