Sentences with phrase «when beetle»

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.

But when the beetle approached a hornworm caterpillar, it got attacked and shoved away.

When beetle larvae emerge, they feed on the tree's tissues before flying off to colonize another tree and restart the cycle.

When beetles take flight, the forewings lift and the flying wings unfurl.

When the beetles consume the eggs, these develop into the juvenile, egg - like stage that is extracted from dead beetles and sold to customers following sterilisation.

The Colorado potato beetle suppresses the plants chewing response only when the beetles feed on tomatoes or potatoes, not when they feed on other members of the nightshade family like eggplants or peppers.

The insects create ripples in the water, which generates drag at speeds greater than 0.23 meters per second (more drag than when the beetles just fly through air).

If you ask the question that way, you're dating yourself back to when beetles and squarebacks and such really were cheap.

«With cold temperatures and a short growing season, when beetles actually did make it up there, they took more than one year to develop - in fact, often two years,» she said.

When the beetles attack, the trees fall to the forest floor and that provides fuel for forest fires.

«When the beetles are flying in the air, they're looking for green grass in a time of year when the grass is usually not green.

Not exact matches

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

In the remembrance of the late John Lenen of the beetles for his song «Imagine»... Wonder how was able to imagine what he had imagined when having a group like those in contol of life or was that the reason that pushed him to sing what he sang and maybe killed for??

While you're at it explain ANY of Noah and how Polar Bears and Elephants coexisted on 1 400 foot wooden arch and how even two of each of the 150,000 species of BEETLE made it onboard and oh what they all ate when the waters receded.

Starting with full rich human experience, imagine what it is that is lost when we descend to the level of apes, then rabbits, then beetles, then amoebae, then viruses.

Even when the flavors come from «natural sources,» they may be derived from things you'd rather not ingest — like ground - up beetles.

It's a relic from another era, a time when a pitcher threw until beetles crawled out of their arms and scuttled into the crowd.

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.

New York state officials are asking swimming pool owners to look for a tree - killing invasive beetle when they clean their pool filters.

When an animal lightens its load, dung beetles race to the scene.

Unlike the many insects whose wings are always exposed, beetles keep their flying wings safely tucked under their protective forewings when not in flight.

It must be applied just before young beetles emerge in spring to search for new trees to colonize, and there is no foolproof way to know when that will happen.

That changed abruptly in 1998, when mountain pine and western pine beetles began a vicious attack on evergreens from British Columbia to Baja California.

A native of rural Elmira Heights, New York, Wood became fascinated with forest insects when he noticed dead elms killed by a scourge of beetle - borne disease in his hometown.

When provoked, the beetles mix two substances inside their abdomens that react explosively, then shoot this cocktail out of their bodies in a noxious stream that can reach around 100 ° Celsius.

When he climbs aboard and tries to mate, beetles cling to his underside, seen here.

A whirligig beetle seeps white goo when pestered, and that slow ooze — instead of a big squirt — gives the beetle a chance in a life - or - death contest inside a fish's mouth, say Cornell University researchers.

After the nineteenth century's great age of biological collecting, when collectors filled museums to bursting with stuffed birds and pinned beetles, the twentieth and twenty - first centuries have proved to be an age of connecting.

The self - inflicted brain damage could temporarily paralyze the beetle just when the newly vulnerable wasp larva needs protection.

When a species of nightshade is injured by hungry beetles, it produces sugary nectar at the wound site.

«So I was really surprised when I discovered three dung beetle species.»

When temperatures pass a certain threshold, however, the beetles lose their ability to synchronize and begin emerging sporadically.

When a fly, beetle or even a small frog crawls across its specially adapted leaves, these spring together with surprising force, sandwiching the unsuspecting prey and blocking its escape.

But when coauthor Timo van Eldijk, also at Utrecht, compared the newly found insect scales with those from silverfish, beetles and other scaly insects, modern scales of a big branch of the moth - butterfly lineage proved the best match.

When thirsty, the beetle simply tilts up its backside, allowing accumulated water droplets to fall into its mouth.

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.

Unpublished work by Thomas's team shows that when this is taken into account for one species of beetle, it disappears even faster than in cruder models.

Farrell analyzed highly conserved DNA sequences from 115 species of the herbivorous beetle subfamilies, sampling up to six species from each, to create a phylogenetic tree showing the likely evolutionary relationships of today's beetles and when they diverged from common ancestors.

The researchers found the order of insect that includes butterflies and the order that includes beetles to be the most likely to be infected when they are larvae.

They also fed on the adult beetles only on the plots of short grass, even when there were lots of beetles in the long grass.

His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation — the beetles maintained straight trajectories.

But when the night sky is hidden, the beetles had much more difficulty keeping a straight path to the periphery (bott

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 analyzed the microbes present, they realized the slime selectively killed some microbes, including fungi, but promoted the growth of others, perhaps to keep bacteria dangerous to the beetles or their larvae from settling on the carcass or to help the larvae better digest the meat.

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.

When researchers scrounged through the grass of the city of Helston in the United Kingdom, they discovered that creatures such as ants, beetles, and daddy longlegs were far more likely to congregate in spots where the glow from street lights was brightest.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

The findings, published in the 14 July issue of Science, help push back the time when a group of beetles called leaf beetles evolved their great diversity and demonstrate just how faithful some species can be to their favorite foods.

«When [small hive beetles] invade a colony, their larval feeding and the spoilage that ensues converts the comb and honey into this lavalike substance.

The acacias and other plants attract insects: When the researchers set up sticky traps to collect beetles, flies, and other bugs, the side of each trap that faced the mound - collected 40 % more insects than the side facing away.