flesh out-add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation. elaborate, expatiate, expound, lucubrate, dilate, exposit, enlarge, expand.
Cecropia caterpillars grow into one of the largest moths in the state of New York. The larvae consume a variety of shrubs and trees, including ash, beech, birch, cherry, dogwood and maple. When fully grown, cecropia caterpillars get as long as 1.5 inches.
The Butterflies of Massachusetts. 15 Bronze Copper Lycaena hyllus (Cramer, 1775) Host Plants and Habitat Relative Abundance Today State Distribution and Locations Broods and Flight Time Outlook. Bronze Copper was described in 1775 by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Cramer, from a female specimen now lost. But the original watercolor drawings of Cramerâs type specimen were recently re-examined by John Calhoun, who deduces that the specimen was collected by a Thomas James around 1766, probably in Brooklyn, New York, on Long Island--- a habitat long since lost to urban sprawl (Calhoun 2010b).