0 a type of poison made from a plant with small white flowers and divided leaves, also called hemlock
1 a poisonous plant that has small white flowers
When the philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death, he was allowed to drink the poison hemlock in the company of his friends.
This was particularly true for females, with the incidence of supernumerary instars increasing from balsam fir (5%), toward eastern hemlock (40%) and sugar maple (90%).
On eastern hemlock, a similar pattern was observed for males of the island population, but 40% of the females made a fifth instar.
For males, larval development was significantly longer on sugar maple compared with the two coniferous species, but similar for balsam fir and eastern hemlock.
The hemlock looper is univoltine and overwinters in the egg stage.
His aim is simply to engage in some exercise and sheer fun by cutting down these hemlocks that he owns.
This redundancy enabled the hemlock to sprout a new 'trunk' when its first was destroyed.
Variation in the number of larval instars has been previously reported across the hemlock looper range.
