Sentences with phrase «entomologists knew»

The entomologist knows better.»

Not exact matches

Of course, any entomologist or gardener knows that the fuzzy insects make it into the air with great success; the model simply had it wrong.

Best known for his work in agriculture, García was also a keen entomologist.

For a sense of how much, one need only examine the story of Robert Russell — known as «Bobby Buggs» due to his off - the - field career as an entomologist — who made a killing as a bat doctor at the turn of the millennium.

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.

The ground beetle fauna in the Northeast is pretty well studied by people who are well - known entomologists — as far as entomologists go, says Kip Will, a graduate student at Cornell.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

Mark Greco and Peter Neumann, entomologists at the Swiss Bee Research Center in Bern, discovered that as soon as the beetles enter a hive, worker bees in the colony surround them and force them to immediately pull their legs under their carapaces, adopting what is known as the «turtle» protective posture.

A team led by entomologist Wangpeng Shi of China Agricultural University in Beijing noticed that migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria manilensis) infected by a microbe known as Paranosema locustae were less likely to aggregate into swarms than were their healthy counterparts.

July 19 - 27: National Moth Week's citizen science projects, identification parties and educational workshops should draw budding entomologists like moths to a... well, you know.

Entomologists Walter Leal and Zainulabeuddin Syed of the University of California, Davis, wanted to know what lures Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus, better known as the southern house mosquito.

In 1998, working with entomologist and geneticist Kenneth Ross of the University of Georgia in Athens, Keller showed that the two groups of fire ants had distinct versions of a gene known as Gp - 9.

Entomologists have long known that insects typically communicate using odors called pheromones, but they haven't been able to agree on what aggregation pheromones encourage pesky roaches to stick close to one another.

In fact, some entomologists say colony collapse disorder is no longer a major problem.

In research appearing March 2 in the Journal of Medical Entomology, lead author Matthew Frye, an urban entomologist with Cornell University's New York State Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Program, reported collecting more than 6,500 specimens of five well - known species of fleas, lice and mites from 133 rats.

In 1916, Arthur Lea, a well - known Australian entomologist, visited the island and described seeing as many as 68 stick insects in a single tree hollow.

In 2015, he published work with Dr. James R. Carey, a renown entomologist and distinguished professor at the University of California Davis and Berkeley, to prove a well - known population theory which has applications in age structure and aging in stationary populations.

Entomologists look at these scales in detail and know which kinds of species have which kinds of scales.

«I know people who claimed that they bought over-the-counter bed bug products, and spent over $ 3,000 in six months,» says entomologist Angela Tucker, PhD, manager of technical services at Terminix.

One of them is an entomologist, FFS; he knows about insects, not about aliens.

After three men are discovered hideously mutilated — their faces have been removed — and strung up among New York City's high - tension wires, Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) stumbles upon a link: Each of the men knew entomologist Remy (Alix Koromzay), a teacher at an inner - city high school.

Bug ID The Amateur Entomologists» Society, the junior division of the Amateur Entomologists» Society based in London, England, provides this easy - to - use interactive tool for determining the order of unknown (or known!)

In an interview this week, Kirby Stafford, the chief entomologist at the agriculture station, said there's no way to know how the fungus gained that foothold.

«The area it occurs in is infrequently visited by entomologists, and the species has long been ignored because it was thought that it was not actually a genuine species, but only a regional color variant of another well - known species.»

(05/14/2007) Known and unknown ailments have killed 20 to 40 percent of bee colonies across the United States this winter according to a leading entomologist.

They enlist the help of experts, including a forensic anthropologist and forensic entomologist (known as «the Bug Lady»).