Sentences with phrase «as beetles»

The larvae, being quite the thirsty predators even if they can't fly yet, eat slugs and earthworms until they pupate the following spring as beetles (or fireflies) who fly, flash and mate, and the cycle continues.

This indicated they were eating different things with Morganucodon favouring harder, crunchier food items such as beetles while Kuehneotherium selected softer foods such as scorpion flies which were common at the time.

The team says its toxin selectively attacks the central nervous systems of common agricultural pests, such as beetles and aphids, while leaving honey bees unharmed.

Rather, the ants scared away other bugs such as beetles that typically prey on treehoppers.

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

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.

«Hairy» adhesives in other organisms such as beetles, spiders, and geckos were postulated to work the same way.

Pine trees are hardly passive victims — as soon as beetles begin to burrow beneath the tree's bark, the unwilling host attacks with secretions of sap, attempting to drown the invader.

A stock Honda Jazz can only run or have same speed as the beetle or the golf.

It's all very dreamscapey... actually, more nightmarescape, I guess, as your beetle tries to blast giant demon skulls out of the sky.

However, once removed from their original context, concepts such as the beetle, the heart, or the flower are distilled into elemental signs and symbols which read clearly across different times and places and attest to the universality of human culture.

Not exact matches

The results of the latest beetle surge are writ plain across the North American landscape, as award - winning Calgary journalist Nikiforuk details.

Each wasp will zero in on a target by feeling out the vibrations the beetle larva causes as it roots through the tree.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

As seen in the video, it took Bananasaurus Rex a few tries before getting through the whole level, which is peppered with lots of Super Mario - sized threats, including bombs, carnivorous plants and Buzzy Beetles.

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 beetle never can be intended here, as that insect never was eaten by man, perhaps, in any country of the universe.

Under the dome - sky oneness translucent and unincarnate as thought, blank as unburnt light, the hope of thisness chokes in nebulae of beetles, sand grains, hydrogen atoms.Gnosis blurs, pits the achilded One against the unfathered Many.

Faith can't be preserved, as if it were strawberries in jam or an unlucky beetle in ancient amber.

Once, the First Secretary of the Regional Communist Party insisted that the «black beetles» vote in town rather than at the monastery as a way of teaching «the atavistic deviant non-working-class element of society» a lesson.

This part the bible got right — from dust you came and to dust you will return — ergo your body will decompose, be eaten by worms and beetles then they will crap you out as new dirt — thus completing the circle of life.

Food is as appealing as ever, with Grylls trying Longhorn beetle and raw crab, as well as termites and vine snake, though he says the worst he's ever tasted is «Raw frozen yak eye balls; camel's intestine juice; raw goat's testicles; live, raw snake; maggots as big as a hand, pulsating with yellow pus and giant live spiders.»

A true Moroccan recipe would also include those shiny green cantharide beetles known as Spanish Fly.

Pre-shipment: An overseas country has an official requirement to have the export of wheat fumigated with methyl bromide as a phytosanitary precaution against the introduction of unspecified stored product pests, such as red flour beetle or rice weevil - any fumigation must take place within 21 days of export.

As an example of using organic mechanisms to control pests, one of Organic Crop Protectant's products, Eco Oil, attracts natural predators such as lady beetles to attack plant pests such as scale, aphids, mites and leafminerAs an example of using organic mechanisms to control pests, one of Organic Crop Protectant's products, Eco Oil, attracts natural predators such as lady beetles to attack plant pests such as scale, aphids, mites and leafmineras lady beetles to attack plant pests such as scale, aphids, mites and leafmineras scale, aphids, mites and leafminers.

Weeds influence the diversity and abundance of arthropods (e.g. beetles, ants and spiders), acting as natural food resource and shelter.

The earth as we know it, Arnett says, could not survive without beetles, which serve as food for fish, birds and other wildlife.

Though it once counted among its residents King Charles I and his court as protection from the plague in 1625, today it's home to mostly deer and beetles.

He referred, as he has previously, to the town's removing trees on private property to combat pine - beetle infestation.

«While some items have been misidentified as being bedbugs, including lint and dust and, in the most recent accusation by the Comptroller's Office of a bedbug sighting in the Family Court Building, a beetle, additional cases have been confirmed in recent weeks with the insects» having been brought into the building by our clients, and in two cases, our employees.»

Now, in the main collection here we have, as I said, about 260 or 270,000 species represented of beetles.

Use the included magnifying lens and book to study tiny creatures such as scorpions, beetles, and bumblebees.

Jewel beetles have sensors that detect infrared radiation from forest fires as far as 50 miles away.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

As with celluloid, Bakelite was invented to replace a scarce natural substance: shellac, a product of the sticky excretions of the female lac beetle.

With 350,000 known species, and scientific estimates that millions more have yet to be identified, the beetle's abundance is as indisputable as is its variety.

The United Nations suggests entomophagy, or eating beetles, wasps and worms, as a partial solution.

As part of his research, Wood drove two hours east to the Sierra Nevada pine forests to study trees ravaged by the bark beetle Ips paraconfusus.

Catnip For Bark Beetles In 1957 Wood ground up some tree tissue, known as phloem, and took it back to his lab.

Times were hard during the Nazi occupation, but as a boy, Bartke found pleasure in gathering beetles and displaying his collection in a glass case.

Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire.

Entomologists soon discovered that beetles use verbenone as a no - vacancy sign in occupied trees.

But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in southeastern Turkey that hold «great promise,» von Wettberg says, as a source of new genes for traits like drought - resistance, resistance to pod - boring beetles, and heat tolerance.

As a college student Darwin collected beetles.

The pollen's structure suggests that the plants were pollinated by insects: most likely beetles, as bees would not evolve for another 100 million years.

They were as amazed by my enthusiasm for a long - dead collector of beetles, butterflies and birds as I was by their admission that, really, they had no idea who he was.

Adult ground beetles of the genus Calosoma fit the bill perfectly as they eat a variety of caterpillar species in the wild and take down prey bigger than themselves.

«We wanted to know how these beetles recolonize within burn units as well as how the neighborhood in which a burn unit occurs affects recolonization rates,» said Jessie Mutz, an FSU graduate student in the Department of Biological Science and the study's lead author.

In species with biparental care, such as burying beetles, most birds and humans, our results indicate that males are followers not leaders in the evolution of family life.

«I was carrying out sampling for my Masters Degree studies, but I had no idea that new dung beetles could be found in a forest that is disturbed by human activities, such as livestock grazing and land - use change,» recalls Moctezuma.