Sentences with phrase «by beetle»

These mechanisms allow beetles to inhabit colder climates and may explain the anomalously low CMMT indicated by the beetle assemblage.

If you have a chance to play in nature, if you are sprayed by a beetle, if the color of a butterfly wing comes off on your fingers, if you watch a caterpillar spin it's cocoon - you come away with a sense of mystery and uncertainty.

«A weaker defense system may also be why we are seeing a strong preference now by the beetle for whitebark pine over lodgepole pine, which has long been its preferred host.»

It was originally started in 1989 by beetle - loving owner Sarah - Jane as VW Penfriends..

We conclude that the interaction between actively feeding P. marginata larvae and the substrate suppressed fungal growth through either consumption by the beetle larvae [47] of fungal biomass or through unknown chemical or combined chemical / mechanical mechanisms.

A study found that insectivorous birds cut infestations by the beetle Hypothenemus hampei by about half, saving a medium - sized coffee farm up to US$ 9,400 over a year's harvest — roughly equal to Costa Rica's average per - capita income.

For mountain pine beetles, the study found fire severity was high immediately after an outbreak, but over time as the number of trees killed by the beetle outbreak grew, fire severity leveled out.

Australia's cane fields were being ravaged by beetles.

«Stridulation, or chirping, sounds produced by the beetles have been reported with respect to mating and aggressive male behavior, and while previous studies proposed the mechanism and reported on some preliminary acoustic recording of the chirps, the chirp characteristics have not been examined extensively,» explained John Allen, a scientist at the University of Hawaii.

(The wild bees naturally nest in abandoned holes in trees created by beetles.)

The researchers noticed a number of Ambrosia beetles near the infected stands, leading them to theorize that the fungus, often carried through the forests by beetles, was involved in the tree deaths.

It is believed the fungus spreads through the environment by beetles boring into dead infected trees, generating disease - tainted frass [5] that is then spread via wind.

We compared bacterial communities in mice carcasses that were either fresh, prepared by beetles or unprepared but buried underground for the same length of time.

Harvey is represented in the UK by Beetles + Huxley, London.

Drawing on nature's design library has given birth to glue inspired by lizards, coatings inspired by beetles,

These include millions of trees killed in recent years by beetles that prefer warmer weather, and declines in spring soil moisture brought on by earlier snowmelt.

In the U.S., millions of acres of forest have been damaged by beetles, according to a report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

«In some case trees may be killed by drought, but in many cases they're being weakened by the drought and then being finished off by the beetles or other stresses,» Swann said.

Some of the fire scars stood adjacent to stands of lodgepole pine destroyed by beetles.

This comes in terms of the lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.

If making wildfires more dangerous and reducing the amount of carbon that is safely stored in these forests wasn't worrisome enough, now Katie Valentine at Think Progress notes another of the myriad ripple effects caused by these beetles: BEAR ATTACKS!

This is usually accompanied by an impaired ability to transport water to the leaves via the outer xylem (the sapwood), courtesy of blue stain fungi (e.g. Grosmannia or Ceratocystis spp.) carried and introduced by the beetles.

Created using 3D models and state - of - the - art materials and techniques, this large but extremely lightweight design is inspired by beetles.

In 2013 I got involved with a group of stakeholders in the community, including firefighters, forestry professionals, legislators, and the Colorado State University extension program, which is the funding body for a wood - chipping program that helps get rid of the trees felled by these beetles.

Not exact matches

Canfor Corp. and West Fraser Timber have also been constrained by the mountain pine beetle infestation in B.C. and environmental challenges in Quebec.

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.

In the forestry sector, warmer winter temperatures linked to climate change is the major factor contributing to the outbreak of the mountain pine beetle in Western Canada, which had reduced the economic value of over 18 million hectares of Canadian forest by 2012.

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.

It is no different than me asserting quite contrary to all available evidence, that the universe was created by a dung beetle named steve who lives in a glorious refuse heap in another dimension.

But no human being will ever be able to be enriched by the experience of hundreds of thousands of species of beetles.

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

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

The frog had been punctured, poisoned and drained by a giant water beetle.

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.

rumsfeldi are beetles, named by Republican bug - hugger fanboys who did not think about the fact these beetles eat slime mold.

The bats then deposit their waste which is processed once again by millions of beetles and decomposing micro-organisms.

I killed Japanese Beetles and sometimes even earth worms by accidentally maiming them with a trowel.

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

We've been greeted by the first pests of the season - the tortoise beetle and the three - lined potato beetle on some potato and tomatillo plants.

«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.»

For example, it helped him see how, in his beetles, «sneaky» males that lack big horns and instead gain access to females by digging tunnels past the big - horned males guarding them could eventually make horns obsolete.

Now this is a collection made by a lawyer called E. Y. Western who died in 1924, and he died leaving a collection — a private collection — of some 10 -LSB-, 000] or 12,000 beetles.

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

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

By 1966 Wood and Silverstein had identified a mixture of three chemicals that attracted Ips beetles.

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.

The morbid color, by now a staple of the Rockies, comes not from fire or some exotic disease but from an insect no larger than a grain of rice — the bark beetle.