Sentences with phrase «beetles do»

Research published by Veblen and Clark University's Dominik Kulakowski in 2015 found that «the best available science indicates that outbreaks of bark beetles do not increase the risk of high - severity fires in lodgepole pine and spruce - fir forests of the Rocky Mountains.»

My point here is that in sense you can get a bit too clever — what's going on might just be what beetles do around rulers.

Pine beetles do have several predators (go, woodpeckers!)

How much proof of a connection between CO2 and pine bark beetles do we need before we become legitimately alarmed, rather than have concerns dismissed as needlessly «alarmist»?

«Because temperatures are warmer, the beetles don't die off in the winter, and beetles are able to expand their range, impacting trees that are less well - adapted to defending themselves from attack.»

These tiny beetles don't look very interesting from afar, but a close view from above reveals a beautiful intricate pattern that looks more like art than an insect exoskeleton.

With their tough exoskeleton, and no obvious sign of wings, beetles don't look like they're even capable of flight.

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Beetles did not realise at the time of writing their song All you need is love, they they were making a prophetic statement to the world.

I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice.»

Indeed, with their wings raised, the dead beetles did attract mates — live males were seen having necrophiliac sex with zombie females (Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, doi.org/b7tx).

If the beetle does evolve to resist an RNA molecule, he says, geneticists could easily launch a new assault: just «slide the sequence over» by a few letters or target several genes at once.

How's the bark beetle doing in Oregon nowadays?

If I remember right, the author stated that when the beetle did eventually make the ascension over the Rockies, their numbers were so vast that you could see the «cloud» from satellites.

Not exact matches

Yes now she can babble mindlessly about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....

rumsfeldi are beetles, named by Republican bug - hugger fanboys who did not think about the fact these beetles eat slime mold.

Arnett, who has worked at the Smithsonian and taught at Catholic University and at Purdue (where he bucked heads with the dean, Earl Butz, who didn't want him going out of Indiana to collect), got involved in beetles when he was a sophomore at Cornell 38 years ago.

Did you know beetles make up about 40 % of insect species?

But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.

Until recently there was virtually nothing landowners could do to protect even small parcels of forest from bark beetles.

DO N'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT Toads can swallow all kinds of stuff but that yummy looking insect — a bombardier beetle — could be a surprising mistake.

The virus replicates rapidly but for unknown reasons doesn't spread to the beetle's brain until just before the larva emerges from her belly.

It's official (in the horned beetle world at least), females prefer courtship over competitiveness — and it doesn't matter about the size of your mandibles either.

Male horned beetles have enlarged lower jaws — or mandibles — used to fight rivals, and those with larger mandibles do have a mating advantage when there is direct male - male competition.

You get all these beetles following the smell, and they congregate and have a big party and have a ton of sex and lay eggs all over the tree, and then go do it again somewhere else,» Jamison says.

Scientists think trees don't die from not taking in carbon, but rather it weakens the tree's defenses and makes trees more susceptible to predators like bark beetles.

The carpet beetles and book lice do much of the clearing up, scavenging dead insects, moulds and algae, as well as polishing off food crumbs and detritus from our own bodies, including nail clippings, hair and dead skin.

Scientists knew that the beetles collected fog by facing into a stiff morning breeze and tilting their bodies forward, but didn't understand how this trapped drinking water.

But it does indeed attract helpers — in this case, ants that then serve as sugar - paid mercenaries in the fight against beetle larvae.

As a young man, his main interests were collecting beetles and studying geology in the countryside, occasionally skipping out on his classes at the University of Edinburgh Medical School to do so.

McAlister honed her interest by doing fieldwork during her undergraduate years: She spent several months working at the now - defunct Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Dorset, where she studied the effects of climate change on heather beetles.

This, the team hopes, can be done by improving the water yield of human - made dew condensers that mimick the nanostructure on the beetle's back.

Not so, according to a field study led by CU - Boulder researchers, who found that higher levels of spruce beetle infestation did not lead to more ecologically severe fires.

The George W. Bush beetle What do you do when you have 65 new species of slime - mold beetles to name?

When she and Duarte raised the burying beetle larvae with germ - free mice, which lack any gut bacteria, the young did not grow as large as those buried with regular mice.

Then they moved on to characters in popular culture: Darth Vader, who resembles a beetle, and Pocahontas, who does not.

Previous attempts probably didn't work well because the cytoplasm within plant cells has machinery that metabolizes double - stranded RNA before pests such as the Colorado potato beetle can consume it.

However, certain beetles are known to pollinate plants as well, and new fossil evidence indicates that they were doing so 20 million years ago.

To isolate the invaders, honeybees construct small chambers around the beetles, but do not seal them off completely.

«My paper points out that beetles may play a more important role in pollinating orchids than originally thought, and that they have been doing so for some 20 million years,» Poinar said.

Do severe wildfires make forests in the western United States more susceptible to future bark beetle outbreaks?

The beetle collection trips were done over a 16 - month period and revealed 68 species of predaceous water beetles alone, termed more formally as the «Hydradephaga.»

They found that avian predators did indeed pick off a lot of beetles: in the rainy season — peak time for beetle activity — borer infestation almost doubled when birds were excluded from foraging on coffee shrubs, rising from 4.6 % to 8.5 %.

«There are some species that are very important, and for the species that are really important, people will do it... but I have a hard time imagining how we would apply it to all the beetles and the microbes, the vast majority of biodiversity.

In outdoor tests, the most successful of four tiny parasitic wasp species released in North America did what they're supposed to: Tetrastichus planipennisi doomed some beetle larvae in ash trees by using the youngsters as living food for baby wasps.

To do this, a beetle approaches an ant and taps on it with its front legs and antennae.

When he showed it to entomologist Joseph Parker of Columbia University, «my jaw hit the floor,» Parker recalls, because he didn't think the ant - beetle relationship could be so old.

Whether it is harvesting water, doing origami or hitching free rides on termite backs, the sheer diversity of beetle behaviour is the key to their success

The crow's unique bill allows it to hold a tool tightly and see what it is doing as it forages for beetle grubs.