Sentences with phrase «by beetles in»

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.

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 201In 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 201in 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.

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!

«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.

Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire.

The «ladybug» taint is caused by alkyl - methoxypyrazines, which accumulate in wine both from grapes themselves and from remains of «ladybug» beetles in crushed grapes.

A native of rural Elmira Heights, New York, Wood became fascinated with forest insects when he noticed dead elms killed by a scourge of beetle - borne disease in his hometown.

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.

«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.

His work, particularly the 2001 paper, is among the most widely cited in research explaining the momentous devastation wrought by the mountain pine beetle.

At first, the tree's presence seemed to fly in the face of much of what was understood of the mountain pine beetle — called MPB by the experts — at the time.

In March 2016, Jan Szyszko, the minister of the environment at the time, tripled the amount of logging permitted in one of three districts managed by the Forest Service, ostensibly to speed up the campaign against the beetlIn March 2016, Jan Szyszko, the minister of the environment at the time, tripled the amount of logging permitted in one of three districts managed by the Forest Service, ostensibly to speed up the campaign against the beetlin one of three districts managed by the Forest Service, ostensibly to speed up the campaign against the beetle.

Death by gang attacks The answer, it turns out, lay within the beetle itself — in its cyclical pattern of birth, life, procreation and death.

For decades, an international research team, led by Dr Gonzalo Halffter, has studied dung beetles across the world, especially in Mexico.

While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican - Italian research team discovered three new dung beetle species in montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.

By observing groups of flour beetles in the laboratory, Melbourne and Alan Hastings, a mathematical ecologist at the University of California, Davis, demonstrated that random variations in sex ratios and physical differences, such as body size, greatly contribute to the overall threat of extinction.

An international study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the Universities of Okayama and Tsukuba in Japan investigated the complicated sexual conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus, the horned flour - beetle.

«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.

«Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical rainforests: Study looked at the impact of logging by examining its effect on forest dung beetles.»

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.

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.

Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.

McAlister honed her interest by doing fieldwork during her undergraduate years: She spent several months working at the now - defunct Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Dorset, where she studied the effects of climate change on heather beetles.

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.

It was not clear from previous studies whether water harvested by such beetles came from dew droplets, in addition to fog.

«So we think that those beetle hairs were acquired by the ticks in a feathered dinosaur nest,» says Pérez - de la Fuente.

Sapped by attacks from an exotic aphid, a moth, and two species of bark beetles, the spruce - fir zone in the Pinalenos was scrofulous and drier than normal.

And if you've hiked in the Rockies since 2009, you've likely hiked through a dead and dying forest, felled by a widespread outbreak of the mountain pine beetle.

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 fungIn 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 fungin the shells of molluscs, the exoskeletons of insects and the cell walls of fungi.

«Fire severity in southwestern Colorado unaffected by spruce beetle outbreak.»

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.

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).

The coldest night of the winter in this region has warmed by about 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years, creating favorable conditions for the southern pine beetle to increase its range.

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.

The ground beetle fauna in the Northeast is pretty well studied by people who are well - known entomologists — as far as entomologists go, says Kip Will, a graduate student at Cornell.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

By keeping the other 15 spiracles closed, the beetle may retain more moisture in the air it exhales.

A team of researchers led by Ralph Bock at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, in Potsdam, Germany, now reports that it has found a way to protect crops from the Colorado potato beetle with a new insecticidal tool: RNA interference, or RNAi (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1261680).

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

Forest Service scientists expect to see continued elevated levels of tree mortality during 2017 in dense forest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle activity.