Sentences with phrase «about insects as»

I heard about insects as a more environmentally friendly form of nutrition.

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Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

Even as he's evoking insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by insect as seen by a man.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

Finally, we analyse date labels on packaging, look at insects as a source of sustainable food production and speak to small farmers about cocoa crops and production.

Christine Spliid, founder of CROBAR, talks to us about the insect protein trend and her own brand story to date, including the challenges of changing consumer perception towards insects as food.

vegetarian times had an article about all this stuff a while back and the red thing kills me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal — notice that it's used as a «natural food coloring» because it's derived from a «natural source»... insects.

As children feed him insect - shaped puzzle pieces, they will also learn about shapes.

The wonder they experience is amazing, as they learn about plants and animals and insects and weather and seasons.

In addition, the order asked the health department to provide «all documents reflecting complaints of unsafe, unsanitary, or unhealthy conditions in NYCHA Public Housing or DHS Homeless Shelters,» including any complaints about leaks, water damage, lead paint, rodents or insects, as well as any documents showing whether or not any city or state agency responded to, investigated, or evaluated the complaints.

But remove all the insects, which comprise about 75 percent of species in the animal kingdom, and the world as we know it could not exist.

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

As a professor of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley, George studied insects and their parasites, traveling to amber hot spots like the Dominican Republic, Canada, Mexico and northern Europe to collect and describe just about anything trapped in resin, from feathers to frogs.

«What these researchers are uncovering about the agronomics of cup plant, as well as the insects that affect them, will help us decide how they can be integrated into a bioenergy cropping system,» said Vance Owens, director of the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center.

People want to see their own ideas played out in insects, and insects cheerfully shatter our preconceptions about gender roles just as they do for many other things.

As Jamison peers into his insect net, he's not worried about getting an exact count.

As of November 2, about 14,500 insects — spanning 14 generations — have been bred at the zoo.

Dossey's company, which will produce about 25,000 pounds of cricket powder this year, has received research grants for several projects related to using insects as food, including how it can alleviate childhood malnutrition.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

If insects have feelings, it would have tremendous implications for the way we think about these creatures, including how we attempt to control them as pests.

Recent studies in Jamaica's «high mountain» coffee farms suggest that introducing insect - eating warblers such as the black - throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens, inset, about to snag a coffee berry borer) onto plantations can keep the pests in check.

However, opponents, such as GeneWatch UK, say there are unanswered questions about the insects, whether they will spread unpredictably, for example.

As Christoph Grüter of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, who was not involved in the work, points out, this study highlights how much is still unknown about insect warfare and how it evolved.

She was curious about whether zebra stripes were attractive to tabanids, a family of insects that includes tsetse flies and horseflies — notorious pests that can transmit illnesses such as sleeping sickness and Chagas disease.

These movements require that the insect successfully make predictions about the motion of its prey as well as its own body.

New details about the protein's function could help fight parasitic diseases, such as malaria, and boost efforts to control insect pests.

«Termites appeared some 150 million years ago while the social Hymenoptera appeared about 100 million years ago, so this discovery of a hydrocarbon as a royal - recognition pheromone in termites appears to predate its use in social insects,» Schal said.

Think about manufacturing some new kind of instrument or device that's as incredibly complicated and carefully orchestrated as a fly or an insect.

These ants sound super interesting, but as the researchers point out in the study, there's still lots to learn about these insects.

By Chris Clarke, KCET With the recent declines in numbers of monarch butterflies leading to the popular insect becoming a candidate for listing as an endangered species, more and more gardeners are thinking about growing milkweed.

this article is very helpful in knowing the benefits of certain fruits and herb and vegetable that we take for granted, it also helps us to know the healing process is always through the right food and not pharmacuticals, because i have been going to the philopinnes every year for a eight week holiday for almost nineteen years and my doctor kept insisting that i take malaria tablets for the mosquito's so about eight years ago i looked at what food the local people consumed that keeps the mosquito's away, and found that many of them eat a kind of vegatable called a bitter melon or gourd which is called karela in india, from the ampaylaya bush and it contains massive amounts of varying types of vitamin b so i started to eat a lot of it uncooked with a morning and evening salad, over the next month i noticed that was not beeing bitten by any insects, so i concluded that my body ferrymones and general odour had changed and acted as a reppelant, but it would only stay that way as long as i used very little deoderant.i also felt a lot better because most malaria tablets contain too much quinine and that can only do you a lot of harm.

Hence, even chimpanzees consume about 5 % of their calories from animal food, mostly insects but sometimes small mammals as well (incidentally, that matches with the 95 % plant - based figure from the cited paper).

The customers of biotechnology companies are farmers (whose customers are food processing corporations etc.), and most of them don't care about the end consumer either: they want a product that can fight (kill) insects, as well as other natural organisms — called names like weeds etc..

Topeka, KS About Blog Learn more about insects and rodents in Kansas City and the midwest as well as prevention tips and pest control services availAbout Blog Learn more about insects and rodents in Kansas City and the midwest as well as prevention tips and pest control services availabout insects and rodents in Kansas City and the midwest as well as prevention tips and pest control services available.

Letts, a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble and a Pulitzer Prize winner for August: Osage County, launched his career as a playwright with Killer Joe, about a sadistic Dallas cop who moonlights as a hit man, and followed it with Bug, chronicling the romance between a lonely middle - aged woman and a paranoid schizophrenic who believes his skin is crawling with insects.

«Our current public discourse about children and filmed entertainment — the debates about the proper doling out of» screen time» at different ages, etc. — starts from the assumption that they naturally occupy this larval position, and that it's our job as — the adult insects?

A unique vision of insect life from French directors Thomas Szabo and Helene Giraud emerged as one of the most talked about films from the recent American Film Market.

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Pill Bug can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech about it.

During the unit on insects, the children might watch «The Giant Bug Invasion» episode of the PBS Kids show Kratts» Creatures to learn about «exotic bugs such as scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas, and many others.»

The insect trading cards and report writing bundle supports students as they read and learn about insects.

Users can view and rotate the molecule in 3D as they learn about molecules of minerals and gems, biochemicals, ions and elements, medicines, insects, plants, and space.

Scientists have identified about 1 million different species of insects, and some experts believe that as many as 10 million insect species actually might inhabit Earth.

Record things you see on this plant that make it unique, such as if an insect comes to it while you are there, or something interesting about where it is growing.

Yolen's skills as an innovative verse - maker are on full display as she plumbs nature's depths in poems about hidden rivers, percolating volcanoes and busy insect colonies.

Perfect for elementary science classrooms everywhere, as well as budding entomologists, this collection of 29 original short poems about bugs (both spiders and insects) is informative and entertaining.

«As a decorated Viet - Nam vet and now an old Scoutmaster, I use insect characters to tell stories about universal truth, loyalty and honor, even if the heroes and villains are very small folk.»

The best kind to get would be those of a lemon eucalyptus oil base, as these contain about 85 percent citronella — a fragrant and natural oil that repels mosquitos and other insects.

They only eat insects, so their diet isn't complicated like other reptiles such as bearded dragons Learn about bearded dragons., and they are very docile and can be handled without worrying about aggression.

As a loving cat owner, take the time to educate yourself about the risks of different insects.