Sentences with phrase «beetles find»

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.

Officials surmise that the beetle found in Buffalo Grove recently hitched to the gas station on a car or one of the many landscaping and construction trucks that visit the Speedway each day.

«A kingdom of cave beetles found in Southern China.»

This is a fossil ptilodactyline beetle found in amber from Mexico.

Although Trigonopterus chewbacca was only one of the four black new weevil beetles found during the expedition, it stood out with its curious scales, which made the authors think of Han Solo's loyal companion.

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

One study suggests arthropod diversity alone — wasps, beetles, spiders, ants — found on a single tree species in shade - grown coffee plantations approximates that found under similar conditions in undisturbed tropical forest.

The girls come out with me and dig in their designated areas, finding worms and beetles, slugs and spiders.

New York environmental officials say a beetle that poses a significant threat to pine forests has been found in Albany, the farthest north it has been detected in the Northeast.

Already, infestations of the beetle have been found at Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley and areas of Brookhaven Town near the Patchogue River, Mr. Calarco said.

He found that beetles and tree frogs avoided ponds containing fish, unless the fish were pirate perch (The American Naturalist, doi.org/ks8).

To find out why, researchers took a closer to look at the black stem borer (pictured), an ambrosia beetle native to Asia that has become a tree - boring pest in North America.

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.

The researchers allowed beetle larva to feast on antibiotic - treated leaves and natural leaves and found that on the antibiotic - treated leaves, the beetles suffered from the plant's anti-herbivore defense, but on the natural leaves the larva gained more weight and thrived.

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.

The biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles, focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.

All of these strategies paid off: None of the 25 beetles tested was successful in killing a single caterpillar, the team found.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132,000 to 110,000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period, before agriculture, from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago).

They found very little overlap between prey and pollinator — checkered beetles and sweat bees, for example, were almost never eaten.

«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.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that sexual conflict over mating impacts the parental care behavior and reproductive productivity of burying beetles.

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.

«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.

Beetles might precede blowflies (not vice versa, as forensic entomology has long suggested), a finding that could change time of death and other calculations made by crime - scene investigators

The survey found 579 species, mainly insects, spiders, beetles, mites, flies and ants, in 50 detached houses in the leafy suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina.

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.

The only creatures found in every home were ants, carpet beetles, cobweb spiders and gall midges.

A team led by UBC Botany Prof. Patrick Keeling sequenced the genome of Helicosporidium — an intracellular parasite that can kill juvenile blackflies, caterpillars, beetles and mosquitoes — and found it evolved from algae like another notorious pathogen: malaria.

It may not seem as though tracking and finding black beetles that can grow to three inches in length would be a challenge.

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.

By JANE SEYMOUR An entomologist trying to identify a rare beetle turns to a national collection only to find that the specimen in question is damaged beyond repair.

In addition, the team found that some of the beetle species that used the same pheromone stayed true to their species by segregating their mating activity by season of the year.

What they found was that the dung beetles rolled in straight paths and made it to the periphery quickly using natural light from the moon or a moonless starry sky.

«We found that beetles that produce the same pheromone are active at different times of day — and that beetles that are active at the same time of day produce different pheromones,» said lead author Robert F. Mitchell, a UA research associate in the department of neuroscience and the Center for Insect Science.

For these beetles to find a mate of the right species, timing is everything, according to research from a University of Arizona - led team.

The findings help researchers understand how the beetle manages to make love without breaking itself, but could also improve the design of medical devices such as catheters, which can lead to complications from inexact tip placement and line buckling, NPR reports.

Insects are full of marvels — and this is certainly the case with a beetle from the Tenebrionind family, found in the extreme conditions of the Namib desert.

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

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

In nature, the Cyphochilus beetle, which is native to Southeast Asia, produces its ultra-white colouring not through pigments, but by exploiting the geometry of a dense network of chitin — a molecule which is also found in the shells of molluscs, the exoskeletons of insects and the cell walls of fungi.

For example, maternity colonies of B. barbastellus were found beneath bark of beetle - killed spruces.

Not so, according to a field study led by CU - Boulder researchers, who found that higher levels of spruce beetle infestation did not lead to more ecologically severe fires.

The findings lend support to a theory proposed by Harvard insect evolutionist Brian D. Farrell, who thinks most plant - eating beetles likely evolved in parallel to flowering plants and therefore were quite diverse during the dinosaur's heyday (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 555).

Some present - day beetles use orchids for nectar, but no fossil evidence has ever been found showing beetles in the evolutionary past pollinating orchids — until now.

The first specimen was a hidden - snout beetle (subfamily Cryptorhynchinae) found in amber from the Dominican Republic.

A team of Japanese scientists found and described a new species of scarab beetle from Cambodia.

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.

Scouting out other museum collections and boggy areas, Will found that the new beetle ranged from Maine to Maryland, and from Ontario to Ohio.