atropos

Is atropos like those witches in that cartoon Hercules movie?

Spin. Measure. Cut. RUN! Jessica Hagy 2007

Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never dampt with the necessity of oblivion.

Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

"That's Acherontia atropos and Papilio codrus medon, " interrupted Madame Goody.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

"Clotho velum retinet, Lachesis net, et atropos occit."

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

In the regions where the hideous death's-head sphinx, the acherontia atropos, abounds, they construct little pillars of wax at the entrance of the hive, so restricting the dimension as to prevent the passage of the nocturnal marauder's enormous abdomen.

The Life of the Bee Maurice Maeterlinck 1905

Huber, in his _Observations on the Natural History of Bees_, avers that the moth called the _Sphynx atropos_ invades and plunders with impunity a hive containing thousands of bees, notwithstanding the watchfulness, pugnacity, and formidable weapons of those insects.

Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

If the _sphinx atropos_, or death's head moth, forces its way into the hive, the bees are well known, after having killed it with their stings, to embalm the dead body with wax -- their reason for this is, that the body was too large for them to remove through the passage by which it entered, and they would avoid the unpleasant smell of the carcass.

Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820

Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never dampt with the necessity of oblivion.

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643

Congratulations on your sighting of a Death's Head Hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, the moth that was featured in the book and movie Silence of the Lambs.

What's That Bug? 2009

The insect, Acherontia atropos, is named after one of the three Greek goddesses of fate,

unknown title 2008