Sentences with phrase «camel crickets»

Among the homes surveyed, 28 % of those in eastern states reported camel cricket presence, compared with 7 % for those in western states.
To learn the distribution of camel crickets in American homes, researchers conducted a citizen science campaign through online surveys and solicited photographs and specimens.
They found large numbers of greenhouse camel crickets, with higher numbers being found in the areas of the yards closest to homes.
To date, their network of keen citizen observers has reported a preponderance of camel crickets in their basements, garages and garden sheds.
Instead, the researchers found that it is now far more common than native camel crickets in and near homes east of the Mississippi.
And now research from North Carolina State University finds that non-native camel cricket species have spread into homes across the eastern United States.
«Asian camel crickets now common in U.S. homes.»
Based on more than 2000 responses from 39 states and the District of Columbia, they found that more camel crickets lived in states east of Colorado than in western states.
«Parasitic plants rely on unusual method to spread their seeds: Convergent evolution of internal seed dispersal by camel crickets
The researcher captured camel crickets, checked whether they were excreting the seeds whole, and found many intact seeds.
Three species of non-photosynthetic plants rely mainly on camel crickets to disperse their seeds, according to new research from Project Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science).
The researchers stress that homeowners shouldn't panic if they find camel crickets in their homes.
«The good news is that camel crickets don't bite or pose any kind of threat to humans,» says Dr. Mary Jane Epps, a postdoctoral researcher at NC State and lead author of a paper about the research.
Some interesting patterns in cricket distribution have emerged, and the researchers have learned that a Japanese camel cricket is way more common in the US than previously thought.
The most common species reported, by more than 90 percent of respondents, was the greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora).
Too big to be noticed: cryptic invasion of Asian camel crickets in North American houses.
The Your Wild Life team needs citizen scientists to share observations and photos of camel crickets
One common household insect is the camel cricket, a harmless, spiderlike omnivorous scavenger named for its humpback.
They also found that greenhouse camel crickets, an invasive Asian species shown in the above picture, have replaced native species as the most common camel crickets in eastern homes.
As many as 700 million camel crickets could be living in eastern U.S. homes alone, the team reports online today in PeerJ, more than the number of people there.
He identified the camel cricket as their main seed disperser, the first evidence of camel crickets being used for seed dispersal in the flowering plants.
Meanwhile, invertebrates, especially the camel crickets regularly ate the fruits.
With their long, spiky legs and their propensity for eating anything, including each other, camel crickets are the stuff of nightmares.
The researchers asked the public whether they had camel crickets (also known as cave crickets) in their homes and, if so, to send in photos or mail in physical specimens.
«We know remarkably little about these camel crickets, such as their biology or how they interact with other species,» Menninger says.
«Because they are scavengers, camel crickets may actually provide an important service in our basements or garages, eating the dead stuff that accumulates there,» says Dr. Holly Menninger, director of public science in the Your Wild Life lab at NC State and co-author of the paper.
«We don't know what kind of impact this species has on local ecosystems though it's possible that the greenhouse camel cricket could be driving out native camel cricket species in homes,» Epps says.
Greenhouse camel crickets (Diestrammena asynamora), like the one seen here, are native to Asia but are now more common than domestic camel cricket species in homes in the eastern United States.
They started with arthropods, measuring mercury concentrations in wolf spiders, camel crickets and pill bugs.
The researchers report that the vast majority of pictures shared with them starred a camel cricket native to Japan, not North America: Diestrammena asynamora.
Meanwhile, invertebrates, especially the camel crickets regularly ate the fruits (figure 3).
Possums, snakes, spiders, and camel crickets have kept me company in the dank, musty underworlds that so many people live above.
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