Sentences with phrase «by insects»

Babies tend to get bitten by insects more frequently than adults.

There's a long list of dangerous diseases that are caused by insect bites, making them not only a nuisance but a serious threat to your dog's health and longevity.

Each year, many pets are diagnosed with diseases carried by insects and parasites.

It is the main fuel used by insects in flight.

Not to mention, taking precautions can help protect you from scary diseases that may be spread by insects.

Increased incidence of infectious diseases, such as those transmitted by insects and rodents, may become more common in regions where these diseases are not currently prevalent.

They are naturally occurring compounds that act as a natural pesticide in the plant to reduce damage by insects.

The spider will capture and eat by itself insect prey that are smaller than it is.

They make their way into the bamboo through a small opening, possibly made by insects.

Which is where my second confession comes in: I love, and am deeply fascinated by insects.......

Finally, trees killed by insects provide more fuel for wildfires, which release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, reinforcing the cycle of destruction.

Control weeds around the garden area because many disease organisms survive on weeds and can be transferred to peppers by insects and wind.

The pollen must be transferred, usually by insects, from the flower of another plant.

Just before the rash started, she remembered being bitten by an insect at the base of her neck.

It is also beloved by insects and other critters.

Thankfully, these gifts tend to be less disgusting than those given by our insect counterparts.

We were very satisfied with our stay, however in the extra room I was bitten on my face by an insect the or spider in the night.

Plants also give off chemicals into the air to warn adjacent plants that they are being attacked by insects.

Increased incidence of infectious diseases, such as those transmitted by insects and rodents, may become more common in regions where these diseases are not currently prevalent.

They may also become injured in a fall, hit by a car, or bit by an insect.

A research paper doesn't talk about increased crop damage by insects.

Find out what to do and when to be concerned if your baby is bitten or stung by an insect such as a flea or mosquito.

A new study shows that pollination by the insects increases the quality and shelf life of strawberries, saving hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.

The Penstemon genus is largely pollinated by insects such as bees and wasps (hymenoptera pollination), but there have been repeated independent transitions to pollination by hummingbirds.

A third of the total human diet depends on plants pollinated by insects, predominantly honeybees.

So too are infestations by insects such as the Colorado and rapeseed beetle.

The scientists found that application of dicamba inhibited or delayed flowering in common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), resulting in significantly reduced visitation by insect species, including honeybees (pollinators) and syrphid flies (natural enemies).

What's more, using sensors on its skin the butterflyfish can detect tiny waves in the water produced by insects moving around on the surface, allowing it to work out how far away they are and in which direction.

Forests experience plenty of natural disturbances: fire, weather variations, competition between plant species, and attacks by insect pests and pathogens.

The researchers applied a range of sub-lethal doses of dicamba to the plants, then tracked flowering and floral visitation by insect species.

The songbird (Machaeropterus deliciosus) uses these feathers for stridulation, a rubbing mechanism commonly used by insects such as crickets.

Viruses are transmitted from plant to plant by insects, or by the grower handling infected plants.

Apply the sunscreen first, followed by the insect repellent.

But ants panicked by insect repellent crowded around one exit and ignored the other.

The term pheromone was coined in 1959 to describe chemicals released by insects to trigger hard - wired behaviours in other members of the same...

Building on earlier work modeling a camera on the shape of a human eye, Rogers and his team recently unveiled a camera inspired by an insect's compound eye.

This would explain why leaves and trunks look much alike, whereas flowers, which «compete» to be visited by insects and hummingbirds, are stunningly conspicuous and variable.

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

Comparative study of polystyrene and polyethylene degradation by insect larvae.

«I've spent a lot of time looking for pathogens that are vectored by insects in amber,» he said.

«We succeeded in visualizing the dynamic signal processing of intracellular calcium as a secondary messenger which is elicited by insect feeding and transmitted systemically to unattacked areas of the plant,» Axel Mithöfer, the leader of the project group «Physiology of Plant Defense» in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, summarizes the results of the study.

Bottom Line: Birds are killed by destruction of habitat and millions of pounds of pesticides every year, but no one wants to stop development or see our lawns and golf courses devoured by insects.

This initially leaves it stranded inside the decaying host, so it has to protect itself, perhaps for years, against adverse environmental conditions such as heat, ultraviolet radiation and drought, until it is once again ingested by an insect.

In the new study Hedrich and his team found that a specific number of touches by the insect makes the plant close its trap; and then again, a certain number of movements inspire the plant to begin the next process.

There are several factors that have led to the rise in diseases carried by insects over this time period, including growing populations of the creatures that transmit them, known as «vectors,» and more foreign exposure by travelers who then unknowingly bring diseases back into the United States, according to the CDC.