Sentences with phrase «beetles collected»

The team considered more than 5500 fossils of beetles collected at more than 200 sites worldwide (including the 45 - million - year - old fossil of a weevil unearthed in Colorado, shown).

From beetles collected at 27 sites in Alberta and British Columbia, they looked for any patterns amongst their catalog of 1536 mutations (single - nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs).

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.

He discovered the only known beetles collected by the famed 19th century explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, in a dusty old box.

Find out how the black dune beetle collects and then drinks the benefits of the Atlantic fog.

Not exact matches

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.

The beetle survives by collecting condensation from the ocean breeze on the hardened shell of its wings.

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.

They bred hundreds of thousands of Ips beetles in the lab and collected the shavings they left behind — a combination of phloem and excrement.

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.

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.

Scientists funded by the NSF are studying a Namibian beetle, whose backside is a patchwork of hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas that help to collect and disperse water as needed.

To copy the beetle's water - collecting design, materials scientist Michael Rubner, chemical engineer Robert Cohen, and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge created a rough coating so water repelling — or hydrophobic — that water sprayed onto it stood up in nearly spherical droplets.

As a young man, his main interests were collecting beetles and studying geology in the countryside, occasionally skipping out on his classes at the University of Edinburgh Medical School to do so.

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.

According to Poinar, the reason may lie in the beetles» secretive behavior, which makes it difficult to collect data about them.

This desire led you to Brazil to collect birds, butterflies and beetles to try to discover what drives the evolution of new species.

Prof Perissinotto and his NMMU colleague Dr Matthew Bird, together with water beetle specialist Prof David Bilton (Plymouth University), collected specimens ranging from 1 mm to almost 5 cm in length (the tadpole eaters).

Earlier this century churches sponsored campaigns to control the beetles by paying people to collect bugs.

Apart from the genera and species new to science, the entomologists report the first case of reproduction by live birth in this rarely collected group of beetles.

My father said you could collect beetles and save souls at the same time.

«We studied the diversity of the rarely collected wingless long - horned beetles from Borneo, which is one of the major biodiversity hotspots in the world,» says main author and PhD student Radim Gabriš.

Tiny droplets collect on the beetle's bumpy back.

Long after tourists left the forest trails in central Japan, the Kobe University biologist collected bombardier beetles, along with their natural predators, the sticky - tongued toads, to see which bugs were best suited for survival.

Beetles are often conspicuous, shiny, beautiful, and varied — qualities which meant that 19th - century naturalists like Charles Darwin collected them for sport, and eagerly compared the size of their collections.

And it is another thing to be handed a net and told to go out and collect the beetles yourself.

Recognizing his ticket to fame and fortune, Oswald heads to Africa and collects some beetle powder, compounding a pill that has the world's most rich and famous men of a certain age willing to pay anything for a dose.

On his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin traveled around the world, from the Cocos - Keeling Islands of the Indian Ocean to Australia, Patagonia, Brazil and Chile, collecting fossil bones, fish preserved in spirits of wine, rocks, plants, carcasses of dead animals, and beetles.

Now why would a dung - beetle possibly be wanting to collect fruit, aside from looking like a boss collecting it?

Should you include only those interests relevant to consulting work (ex: investing, journalism, pro bono work, etc.) or interests that are unique and serve to catch the eye of the reader (ex: I'm member of a local interpretive dance troupe and enjoy collecting water beetles)