Sentences with phrase «by insect larvae»

Generally this refers to the consumption and digestion of the seed, but also includes the parasitization of seeds by insect larvae.

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The chemical works by interfering with the hormones that help insect larvae hatch, which doesn't happen in humans.

The archaeologist smiled just as broadly, if perhaps a bit more mischievously, when pointing out his two secret weapons to keep the timbers still in the tanks from being damaged by bacteria, fungi or insect larvae.

According to the Shellac & Forest Products Export Promotion Council: «Lac cultivation is done by putting sticks of lac encrustations (broodlac) which contain mature female (gravid) insects, which are about to give birth to young larvae, on suitably prepared specific host plants.

Their carcasses are then ground up by a microscopic disassembly line: a chain of insect larvae that thrive in the pitcher pool, cooperating to feed themselves — and the plant.

The fish learned to steer toward one of these objects by being rewarded with insect larvae.

That hole at the bottom is big enough for a royal larva to fall through, confirms insect physiologist Steven Cook at the honeybee research lab in Beltsville, Md., run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

Researchers look into the mechanisms by which insects preserve and provision food for their larvae in competitive environments...

By the time he came to us, the wounds were infected and filled with insect larvae.

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Use one that contains the insect growth regulator methoprene, a hormone that works by interrupting the flea's life cycle at the stage between larva and adult.

Ingesting infected tissue of a transport host - By eating rodents, birds, or insects (transport hosts) that have larvae in their tissues, your cat may become infected with roundworm.

The microfilariae must be taken up by biting mosquitoes, and transform into infective larvae over a two - week period inside the insect.

Thirdly, Catego contains Pyriproxyfen which is an insect development inhibitor, technically robbing the flea of any capability to reproduce by altering the growth and development of eggs and larvae.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Similarly, one usually doesn't think of insects when it comes to jewelry, but for almost three decades now, French artist Hubert Duprat has made stunning precious pieces that are actually created by the natural building behaviour of the Caddisfly larvae (Trichoptera).

Recently, we've seen how designers have been creating new kinds of biologically inspired products, from jewelry built by larvae, to countertop incubators that cultivate insects for human consumption, to dead beetle bioplastic.