| Carmen made us pause in our conversation to look at the moon, a perfect orange lantern cradled in the arms of a cecropia tree. |
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| Another tree species on Saint Lucia is bois canon, or cecropia, whose large, palm-like leaves decay very slowly when they fall to the ground. |
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| The strategy is a bit like that of northern cecropia moth pupae, which do not stir unless previously chilled for a sufficiently long time. |
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| The cecropia moth, for example, produces a peptide that attacks many kinds of bacteria. |
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| Included among these are the cecropins, a family of peptides typically 33-39 amino acids in length first isolated from the silk moth, Hyalophora cecropia. |
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| In the jungles of French Guiana, Azteca andreae lives symbiotically with the trumpet tree, called Cecropia obtusa, which hosts colonies of the insects in its hollow stems. |
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