Sentences with phrase «collected by the beetles»
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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.
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The beetle survives by collecting condensation from the ocean breeze on the hardened shell of its wings.
He discovered the only known beetles collected by the famed 19th century explorer, Dr. David Livingstone, in a dusty old box.
Scientists funded by the NSF are studying a Namibian beetle, whose backside is a patchwork of hydrophobic and hydrophilic areas that help to collect and disperse water as needed.
Scientists knew that the beetles collected fog by facing into a stiff morning breeze and tilting their bodies forward, but didn't understand how this trapped drinking water.
Earlier this century churches sponsored campaigns to control the beetles by paying people to collect bugs.
Apart from the genera and species new to science, the entomologists report the first case of reproduction by live birth in this rarely collected group of beetles.