Sentences with phrase «beetle into»

The pair prodded beetles into spraying until no more defensive chemicals remained, and then fed defenseless beetles to toads.

Climate change could be throwing common tree killers called mountain pine beetles into a reproductive frenzy.

It grouped those beetles into families (the biological classification just above genera, which are groups of species) and then sorted them into bins of time that each lasted 25 million years.

Benardo was an air - cooled Volkswagen guy before he was an electric car guy; his childhood neighbor transformed VW Beetles into Meyers Manx - style dune buggies.

Evidently a daring foodie, he organized an insect - eating night on Valentine's Day this year that had people drinking cocktails out of cockroach - garnished glasses, dipping beetles into chocolate fondue, and savoring whipped cream that included the internal fluids of giant Thai water bugs, known for their sweet taste.

In order to complete my analysis, I divided the beetles into five marine oxygen isotope intevals, as Elias did in his paper.

Climate change could be throwing common tree killers called mountain pine beetles into a reproductive frenzy.

Not exact matches

They all lay their eggs inside borer eggs or larvae, killing them before they turn into wood - munching beetles.

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.

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

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....

These are speedy because they took about 30 minutes start to finish; they are rustic because I'm incapable of rolling dough into a perfect circle and I'm much better at rustic shapes that resemble VW beetles.

The standout moment of 2010 was the emergence of a gigantic beetle, which scuttled its way into the stadium and spent some time fussing with an oversized Jabulani.

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.

Moreover, beetles consume plant matter and carrion that are recycled into the soil.

He wasn't devoured by pressure beetles every time he stepped into the box.

The committee would not only look into ways to stop the beetles, but also instances where the different municipalities and organizations can work together.

«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.»

The beetles kill trees in the course of their reproductive cycle: Adult beetles bore into the trunk and carve out tunnels called galleries, where the females lay eggs.

Ambrosia beetles survive by boring into trees and growing fungi inside.

Some symbiotic bacteria living inside Colorado potato beetles can trick plants into reacting to a microbial attack rather than that of a chewing herbivore, according to a team of Penn State researchers who found that the beetles with bacteria were healthier and grew better.

Wood had discovered that male Ips beetles secrete a chemical into phloem that attracts potential mates.

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.

Hirotaka Sato and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore inserted electrodes into flower beetles (Mecynorrhina torquata) to stimulate specific leg muscle groups.

Tiny beetles hide from the sudden light, and pill bugs curl their bodies into defensive balls.»

Fifteen of the 16 beetles coughed up into daylight lived for at least 17 days, with one still going 562 days later.

Someone shines a flashlight right into the beetle's appendage - laden face.

Having established that equation, predicting the beetle's expansion into any particular region was just a matter of plugging in the IPCC's temperature projections and crunching the numbers.

And the beetles were spreading north, expanding into the boreal forests of Canada and exploding through central British Columbia.

Taking his idea to its logical conclusion, Schrödinger argued that it should be possible to read the «code - script» of an egg and know «whether the egg would develop, under suitable conditions, into a black cock or into a speckled hen, into a fly or a maize plant, a rhododendron, a beetle, a mouse or a woman.»

This little striped beetle was introduced into Europe accidentally at the end of the 19th century.

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

Then, he peers into the canvas, quickly counting a mass of tiny Diorhabda beetles already crawling up the fabric to escape.

Viewing the CT scans, the beetles» guts come into full view, showing their complex tracheal system and exoskeleton.

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.

After eight generations of range expansion, three distinct populations of the beetles were compared including those found at the core and at the edge of the structured landscapes, and those that were shuffled into new areas.

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.

Hundreds of young people trekked into the desert to create this giant scarab beetle near Cairo, Egypt.

Fine mist, he discovered, bounces off the valleys and sticks to the peaks, where it forms beads fat enough to roll against the wind, down the thirsty beetle's back, and into its mandibles.

Desert beetles survive by funneling fog along the dimpled back of its exoskeleton and into their mouths, providing a cool morning drink in an otherwise bone - dry environment.

The beetles bore into the woody stems of dead shrubs and trees.

Catheters and beetle penises have a common problem: finding a way into complicated spaces without breaking or collapsing.

«Bark beetle outbreaks transformed former production forests into a growing wilderness that offers great possibilities for the conservation of the barbastelle bat,» said Mareike Kortmann, lead author of the Animal Conservation study.

FOLD «EM Ladybird beetles, or ladybugs, are experts at packing a lot into their trunk.

A pair of burying beetles, one male and one female, claim the body and begin to dig away the soil beneath it, so that the corpse gradually sinks into the ground and eventually becomes covered in soil.

Instead, the biggest threats seemed to be grazing livestock, fires, and the longhorn beetle, which burrows into trees» bark, kills them, and leaves them as ready fuel for forest fires.

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

For example, beetles might burrow into the ground to stay cool during the hottest parts of the tropical day.

«The tree launches a scorched - earth defense against the beetle, but the beetle converts the tree's toxins into attractants, like an early version of jiujitsu,» says Raffa.

Even with more beetles munching on them, an increase of 2 °C — the current target cap for global warming — bumps the average mosquito's probability of survival into adulthood by 53 %.