Sentences with phrase «beetles use»

Some members of the team were in on last year's Ig Nobel Prize — winning paper «Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Navigation,» which appeared in the journal Current Biology.

Male seed beetles use sharp spikes on their penises to damage females during sex, but females are evolving thicker tissue to resist them

Scientists have even shown that dung beetles use the polarisation pattern of moonlight for orientation.

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.

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

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

The beetles use recently scorched areas for mating.

The beetle uses its mandibles to latch on to an army ant's rear, where it blends in while moving to a new nest together with the ants

His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation — the beetles maintained straight trajectories.

His research, recently published in the journal «Current Biology,» revealed that the dung beetle uses the Milky Way to navigate.

Inspired by a recent scientific study that revealed how the jewellike beetle uses the Milky Way for nocturnal orientation, Thater developed an entirely new kind of film and video installation to ponder the vastness of the universe and to convey aesthetically the sublime aspects of the cosmic imagination.

Not exact matches

Currently, I have an abundance that I am trying to use up before all of the Japanese beetles get to it all.

So, the spiralizer now gives us more creative ways to use raw zucchini, or zoodles, and raw beets, or beetles.

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 leafminers.

(Not that it couldn't use some TLC these days, what with beetles potentially infesting 5 million containers of Similac.)

A certain kind of beetle is crushed and boiled to extract juice, which his then used to color foods that need a pink, orange, or red hue.

For reference, other brands I've used: little beetle snaps, little beetle velcro, imse velcro and wool pull - ons (can't remember brand).

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

The researchers discovered that it was even able to shoot around a corner: Using two disk - shaped «reflectors» on either side of the nozzle, the beetle could deflect its spray to hit hard - to - reach spots, like the top of its own head.

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.

They then set up a camera with high - speed flash units and proceeded to bother the beetles: Using a forceps, they pinched various parts of the insects» bodies.

«More than two decades ago, neonicotinoids became widely used against the beetles, and that worked,» said Felton.

Bombardier beetles have two glands in their rear ends, one filled with hydrogen peroxide — used in rocket fuel — and phenol, the other with enzymes.

«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.

«By using chloroplast transformation we generated potato plants that accumulate high amounts of long stable dsRNAs targeting essential genes in the beetle,» says Ralph Bock.

Male horned beetles have enlarged lower jaws — or mandibles — used to fight rivals, and those with larger mandibles do have a mating advantage when there is direct male - male competition.

As in previous studies, the beetles were used to model ecological and evolutionary conditions because of their small size and their more rapid progression through subsequent generations.

Evolution is not easy to measure in a field setting, which is why Ruth Hufbauer, a professor in CSU's Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, and her colleagues Christopher Weiss - Lehman and Brett Melbourne, from CU's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum) to observe evolutionary processes in controlled environments.

Beetles can skate across water by decreasing the surface tension - now tiny engines made from droplets, nanopowder and laser light are using the same trick

A team of researchers at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu are using acoustics to help to understand this beetle, its habits and movements in order to protect the state's valuable natural resources.

Whether this information can be used in tracking or anticipating beetle movement or behavior remains to be seen.

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.

The researchers concluded that in the wild, the beetles weren't using individual stars, but the bright stripe of starlight from the Milky Way as a sort of compass.

In the Western U.S., pheromones are used to combat a longhorned beetle known as the California prionus that is a pest on hops, Mitchell said.

Using starlight, dung beetles travel relatively straight (lines inside top circle).

The experiment was conducted both outdoors under the night sky, and inside a planetarium where researchers could manipulate the starlight and hone in on the specific cues that the dung beetles were using.

Using pheromones can also reveal the presence of destructive invasive species such as the Asian longhorned beetle.

Longer than that, and they have to turn to the beetles and flies that take up residence in cadavers, using their age and natural succession to estimate the time of death.

Next they estimated how the specific red and black hues used by black widows appear to birds compared to how they might be seen by insects such as crickets, beetles and ants, which black widows catch in their sticky webs.

«Even though it is known that some beetle species use their fecal excretions to pass information to their conspecifics, we were surprised about how highly attractive even the smallest amounts of frass were to vinegar flies,» reports Ian Keesey, the first author of the study.

Greco and Neumann report in Nature Precedings that they were able to witness the entire battle between the bees and beetles play out in high - resolution 3 - D by using a «micro CT» scanner that took snapshots of a stingless bee hive every five minutes for an hour and a half.

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

But that changed when the team left them a log filled with inaccessible beetle larvae that could only be retrieved using tools.

«The Natural History Museum's beetle collection is one of the most important and extensive in the world, so I'm delighted that it has played such a fundamental part in this study that uses a novel approach to estimating how many species of beetle exist,» says Professor Owens.

Female burying beetles — which belong to the species Nicrophorus vespilloides — routinely fight over the carcasses of small birds and rodents, which they use to provide their young with food.

While some of the used poisons are derived from certain plants, others have been found to come from specific beetle species.

In outdoor tests, the most successful of four tiny parasitic wasp species released in North America did what they're supposed to: Tetrastichus planipennisi doomed some beetle larvae in ash trees by using the youngsters as living food for baby wasps.

The smell attracts insects that usually go for carrion, like flies and beetles, and the flower uses them to help spread its pollen.

Researchers grew three flower species — borage (pictured above), common comfrey, and cornflower — that farmers use to attract predatory and parasitic insects, including wasps, flies, lady beetles, and lacewings.