Sentences with phrase «carrion flies»

If carrion flies have one enviable talent, it's finding animal carcasses in the wilderness, something they surpass even the most systematic and intrepid field biologists at doing.

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

One candidate is carrion flies.

Playing a girl who communicates with insects, thereby tracking a murderer across Switzerland with a carrion fly as her mini-bloodhound, would anyway test a Streep.

on Gates Foundation and carrion fly into Hartford as part of public education privatization effort

Not exact matches

That attracts its pollinators: carrion - eating beetles and flesh flies.

They likewise came across carrion - feeding flesh flies emerging from a dead rodent, two nearly microscopic hermit crabs trapped dozens of kilometers from the closest seashore and a larval - stage beaded lacewing, which immobilizes termites with a chemical released from its anus before eating them.

The smell attracts insects that usually go for carrion, like flies and beetles, and the flower uses them to help spread its pollen.