No need to sweep up
dead insects from the floor!
Not exact matches
1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and
insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of
dead animal / plant life
from times long ago.
The salamanders use their tongues to catch
insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their
dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches
from the mouth like an arrow
from a bow.
The carpet beetles and book lice do much of the clearing up, scavenging
dead insects, moulds and algae, as well as polishing off food crumbs and detritus
from our own bodies, including nail clippings, hair and
dead skin.
Dead or Alive Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
Insects, chickens, and cows get a second life in this exhibit, but it's a life very different
from their first.
When scientists setup an artificial ecosystem in the lab, complete with ladybugs, parasites, and lacewings,
insects that like to make a meal of wasp cocoons, they found that when the cocoons were between the legs of a living ladybug, only 35 % were killed by predators, compared with 85 % if the cocoon was attached to a
dead ladybug, and nearly 100 % if it was free
from any ladybug.
The researchers placed varying numbers of live or
dead stink bugs on grapes and measured the release of
insect stress compounds as wine was produced
from the fruits.
Stories feature Crop circles and alien visitors Plasticized museum bodies A
dead baby and a guest appearance
from the protagonist of Mail
Insect hunting with a ridiculous American exchange student who dresses like a stripper A ghost village A mummification service Working as professional mourners A -LSB-...]
Aside
from seeing the actual bed bug on your pet (it may be hard to find since many pets like ferrets, rabbits, rats, and cats are so meticulous when they groom themselves) you may see bites, your pet itching themselves, or
dead insects in your pet's cage or around the house.
In Palmer's studio, leaves and petals that have been gathered
from her garden are pressed, wings are collected
from dead insects, and mushrooms are gathered to make spore prints.
With chief curator David McFadden, she co-organized the inaugural exhibition, «Second Lives,» showing art made
from discarded or commonplace objects such as combs and pistol triggers, and the recent show «
Dead or Alive,» which featured works made with organic materials such as
insects and bones.
Among these will be «The Floor I (Studio - floor
from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland)»
from 1973 to 1992; a series of wall - mounted works form the 1980s comprised of such at - hand materials as toys, sweets, tools, refuse, and
dead insects in plastic tubes; and key works
from the «Tischtücher» series of paintings made in the late 1980s and early 1990s
from used tablecloths.
- Population reduction control - Destruction of millions of forest acreage - Destruction of millions of farmland acreage - Creation of massive droughts & wildfires - creation of Mega-GigaTons of CO2
from dead & dying vegetations - promotion of massive health issues, including «death» for humans, animals, birds, bees,
insects, all ocean life, all life forms.
Recently, we've seen how designers have been creating new kinds of biologically inspired products,
from jewelry built by larvae, to countertop incubators that cultivate
insects for human consumption, to
dead beetle bioplastic.