Sentences with phrase «colony of bats»

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy «Bat Tower» being built to draw the pest - fighting pollinators to the area.

Shadow Swarm compliments the Static Thrusters and allows Cole to turn into a colony of bats and quickly breeze over the bustling New Marais.

The puzzles really help to bring the level design along with such puzzles as removing a light bulb from one chain and placing it on the other to make the colony of bats flee their roost, so Baby can progress beyond the bats and having to use a particular mood to produce rain to raise the positioning of the boat in order for Baby to jump onto the boat.

A colony of bats inhabits a small section of the parkland behind Mudlo Street, flying out at dusk as 1000's of Rainbow Lorakeets return to roost in the palm trees at the Marina Mirage.

Whenever Mina becomes a vampire (forgiving first that she is overtly a vampire and next that she is ever anything besides a vampire), her transformation is inexplicably accompanied by a massive colony of bats; Dorian Gray is both immortal and invulnerable; although Captain Nemo dubs his invention of a roadster «an automobile,» everyone promptly calls it a «car;» and Mr. Hyde looks just like a small Welsh actor in a blow - up rubber suit.

Dressing up your favorite chocolate cake with a colony of bats is as easy as gluing knots of black satin ribbon to floral wire and adding dots of puff paint as eyes.

The only I know for sure regarding Ms. Bachmann is that every time she uses a microphone, an entire colony of bats flies off course — in Europe.

Colonies of bats, including the endangered lesser horseshoe bat, may also be observed here.

Not exact matches

Found mainly in tropical forests on the Indian subcontinent, this spectacular mammal usually resides in a treetop colony with hundreds or sometimes thousands of other bats.

However, they showed more of the behaviour when the call came from a bat of the same species but a different colony (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2010.03.025).

A lack of evidence that bats are key reservoirs of human disease has not prevented their vilification or efforts to exterminate bat colonies where threats are presumed to lurk.

Infrared camera footage of wild bat colonies showed that vertical plastic plates trick bats in more natural settings, too.

Thomas Kunz of Boston University and his team observed a captive colony of the Rodrigues fruit - eating bat (Pteropus rodricensis) in Gainesville, Florida.

Over a period of three hours, Kunz and his colleagues watched one of the female bats in their colony help another to give birth (Journal of Zoology, vol 232, p 691).

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

Also the species composition of bats seems to play a role: Colonies with vampire bats, feeding on other animal's blood, supply more nitrogen to the trees than those without vampire bats.

The deadly fungal disease known as white - nose syndrome has spread to bat colonies throughout eastern North America over the past seven years, causing bat populations to crash, with several species now at risk of extinction.

Over the course of the winter hibernation period, which can last more than five months, the infection spreads throughout the colony and on individual bats.

Infrared camera footage of wild bat colonies inhabited by M. myotis and two other bat species showed that vertical plastic plates trick bats in natural settings, as well.

As they report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, every bat colony showed signs of the rabies virus.

In these colonies, about 12 % of bats had been exposed to rabies, compared with some 7 % in colonies that were never culled.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 — 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

First noticed in North America in the winter of 2006 - 2007, the disease exterminated some whole colonies of hibernating bats on the East Coast, though some species have proved less susceptible.

The fungus can infect nearly every bat in a hibernating colony by the end of the winter.

According to the researchers, a single colony of 150 big brown bats in Indiana eat nearly 1.3 million insects a year — insects that could potentially be damaging to crops.

Then, you will be able to upload the location of a colony (Participate — Add a colony), and a count of the number of bats living in the colony (Participate — Add a count).

We are asking for the public's participation to help us identify bat colony sites and carry out counts of those colonies in order to monitor bat population trends.

Two of the most important things I can think of right off the bat are to continually load up your system with probiotics (to strengthen your gut flora colonies naturally), and also to maintain adequate levels of vitamin D from your diet and through daily sunshine (which is vitally important to your immune system).

Said Schwartzberg, «For me, the joy of doing this film is to be able to explore worlds that humans can't easily experience — bats sipping nectar in the middle of the desert at night, orchid bees expertly manipulated by a bucket orchid, exotic hummingbirds flying like airborne dancers, and a clustering monarch colony with millions of butterflies.

BARC does not respond to service requests for common wild animals found outside the living areas of homes, or for pest removal such as rodents or bat colony infestations.

Maintained by the National Park Service, it is currently home to a colony of rare Townsend's big - eared bats.

Passed the Raffles Hotel there is an avenue of towering trees, a home to a colony of giant fruit bats that live here and that you can see hanging at any time of the day.

From 1974 to 1988, no other Townsend's Big - eared Bats were seen on Santa Cruz Island, before Dr. Pat Brown of UCLA, in 1991, was made aware of a colony of Townsend's roosting in the bakery room of the Scorpion adobe building.

Ongoing monitoring efforts are measuring changes in amphibian and reptile population biology in response to pig removal on Santa Cruz Island, the number of bats occupying important maternity colonies on Santa Cruz, and mouse population dynamics as they relate to changes in fox numbers on San Miguel Island.

The maternity colonies consist of one or more small clusters, which rarely exceed 100 bats.

The Santa Cruz big - eared bat colony is one of only a handful known in the state of California.

Reproduction Winter hibernation colonies are comprised of males and females and range in size from a few individuals to several hundred bats.

The island itself has a lake at its centre and is home to a large colony of Fruit Bats, every evening at sunset these bats awake from their day of slumber and leave their small island in search of fBats, every evening at sunset these bats awake from their day of slumber and leave their small island in search of fbats awake from their day of slumber and leave their small island in search of food.

This underground river is surrounded by breathtaking rock formations and colonies of fruit bats that create an otherworldly atmosphere.

You can admire colonies of sleeping bats overhead as you traverse the amazing caverns.

Allied to this are the topside visual attractions of volcanoes and bat colonies, and you'll soon have enough reasons to plunge deep and explore the underwater tapestry of Sumbawa.

Chetwynd shifts between individual portraits of bats — portrayed heroically or forlornly before billowing skies — and swarming colonies.

Last season she wowed the crowds with her bee colony inspired collection, this season her work highlights the mystical twilight beauty of bats with a collection entitled Echolocation.

Along with being producers of honey, commercial bee colonies are important to agriculture as pollinators, along with some birds, bats and other insects.

A New York appellate court has considered whether a trial court had properly allowed to proceed to the jury a buyer's lawsuit involving the presence of a seasonal bat colony in the attic.