Sentences with phrase «eating beetle»

Consider the cane toad in Australia, first introduced from Hawaii in an attempt to control pesky crop - eating beetle populations.

Our favorite resident: a fish - eating beetle.

Three volunteers in China have just spent three months eating beetle larvae as part of a project to test life - support systems for deep - space travel.

They brought in cane toads to eat the beetles.

The United Nations suggests entomophagy, or eating beetles, wasps and worms, as a partial solution.

But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.

They then tested how these altered plants fared in the presence of flower - eating beetles and crickets.

The findings lend support to a theory proposed by Harvard insect evolutionist Brian D. Farrell, who thinks most plant - eating beetles likely evolved in parallel to flowering plants and therefore were quite diverse during the dinosaur's heyday (Science, 24 July 1998, p. 555).

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

To quantify the benefit birds provide to plantations, the researchers first calculated coffee bean yield — the amount of healthy, beetle - free beans that could be harvested — of infected plants that were housed in bird - proof cages versus yield from infected plants in the open, where birds were eating the beetles.

Based on reports of cane toad introduction helping to increase yields in Hawaiian sugar cane crops by eating beetles, Reginald Mungomery organized the import of toads.

Initially, cane toads reached Australia because of direct human assistance; the Queensland agricultural scientists brought them in to eat the beetles that threatened the cane crop.

Dogs that catch and eat beetles, cockroaches, mice, even earthworms, all of which may be hosts for roundworms, should periodically be given anthelmintics (wormers) as a routine control measure.

Not exact matches

«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper after his kind» (Leviticus 11:21,22).

Lev 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Lev 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

The beetle never can be intended here, as that insect never was eaten by man, perhaps, in any country of the universe.

While you're at it explain ANY of Noah and how Polar Bears and Elephants coexisted on 1 400 foot wooden arch and how even two of each of the 150,000 species of BEETLE made it onboard and oh what they all ate when the waters receded.

This part the bible got right — from dust you came and to dust you will return — ergo your body will decompose, be eaten by worms and beetles then they will crap you out as new dirt — thus completing the circle of life.

rumsfeldi are beetles, named by Republican bug - hugger fanboys who did not think about the fact these beetles eat slime mold.

Val — More Than Burnt Toast, Taryn — Have Kitchen Will Feed, Susan — The Spice Garden, Heather — girlichef, Miranda — Mangoes and Chutney, Jeanette — Healthy Living Mary — One Perfect Bite, Kathleen — Bake Away with Me, Sue — The View from Great Island Barbara — Movable Feasts, Linda A — There and Back Again, Nancy — Picadillo Mireya — My Healthy Eating Habits, Veronica — My Catholic Kitchen Annie — Most Lovely Things, Claudia — Journey of an Italian Cook, Alyce — More Time at the Table, Amrita — Beetles Kitchen Escapades

Val — More Than Burnt Toast, Taryn — Have Kitchen Will Feed, Susan — The Spice Garden Heather — girlichef, Miranda — Mangoes and Chutney, Amrita — Beetles Kitchen Escapades Mary — One Perfect Bite, Sue — The View from Great Island, Barbara — Movable Feasts Linda A — There and Back Again, Nancy — Picadillo, Mireya — My Healthy Eating Habits Veronica — My Catholic Kitchen, Annie — Most Lovely Things, Jeanette — Healthy Living Claudia — Journey of an Italian Cook, Alyce — More Time at the Table Kathy — Bakeaway with Me, Martha — Simple Nourished Living, Jill — Saucy Cooks ~ ~ ~

The mother beetle eats the meat and regurgitates it to feed her larvae who crowd around her begging.

This high - flying acrobat lives in the forested areas of eastern North America and prefers to eat moths and beetles.

Adult ground beetles of the genus Calosoma fit the bill perfectly as they eat a variety of caterpillar species in the wild and take down prey bigger than themselves.

They found very little overlap between prey and pollinator — checkered beetles and sweat bees, for example, were almost never eaten.

Hide beetles (Omorgus suberosus), each just 1 centimetre long, are eating their way through the stock of eggs and hatchlings.

And in more temperate regions, bugs could even benefit: As the pine beetles eating their way through the vast boreal forests of western North America prove, changes in climatic patterns can help insect pests by allowing them to survive through the winter.

In separate chambers, they also assessed how many mosquitoes the larval beetles would eat at various temperatures.

Warming temperatures may both speed up the development of the insects and increase the rate at which other predators — such as the larval beetle — eat them.

They found that beetle - eating birds were most common at sites with lots of stretches of forest nearby, and that beetle infestations were slightly more severe at sites that were not surrounded by abundant forest.

Tinder Snub Another hot winter helped forest - eating southern pine beetles settle New England.

Especially during mating season, great bustards (Otis tarda) eat certain toxic species of blister beetles to prove how tough and healthy they are.

For example, say every beetle in the world eats the leaves of two tree species.

Erwin's equation requires figures such as how many tree species are in the world, what proportion of bugs are beetles, and what proportion of beetles eat plants.

This indicated they were eating different things with Morganucodon favouring harder, crunchier food items such as beetles while Kuehneotherium selected softer foods such as scorpion flies which were common at the time.

The ants carry the beetle, dropping it off in the brood chamber, where it eats eggs and larvae.

The latest finding from these researchers suggests that the birds are returning the favor to farmers by eating an aggressive coffee bean pest, the borer beetle, thereby improving coffee bean yields by hundreds of dollars per hectare.

Attached to the ticks are tiny hairs that can be attributed to beetle larvae — specifically skin beetles (dermestids), which we know can be found in bird nests today, eating feathers and skin debris.

Different types of dung beetles have evolved diverse ways of eating, living in and laying their eggs in animal feces.

Elisa Cabrera - Gusman (a graduate student with TEAM BUFO) found that water beetles and water bugs love to eat cane toad tadpoles, and are not affected by the toads» poison.

Scientists have discovered a 52 - million - year - old piece of amber containing the fossil of a beetle that not only tricked ants to gain access to colonies, but also leeched off them and ate their eggs.

The larvae, being quite the thirsty predators even if they can't fly yet, eat slugs and earthworms until they pupate the following spring as beetles (or fireflies) who fly, flash and mate, and the cycle continues.

In some places and at certain times in the summer they can get nearly all of their calories eating the insects in mass congregations (army cut worm moth, ladybird beetles, etc).

Flea beetles — these eat the leaves of root crops like beets, radishes and turnips.

Pasture - raised turkey enjoy eating acorns, beechnuts, pine seeds, grasses, grass seeds, sedges, farbs, tubers, bulbs, crabgrass, wild berries, alfalfa, clovers, beetles, grasshoppers, and leafhoppers.

In this pond grows jade - green algae, which is eaten by a mayfly nymph, which is eaten by a diving beetle, and so on until Anna hears a coyote stalking a raccoon.

The bumblebees ate the biscuits, the butterflies ate the butter and bread, and the beetles ate the beets.

Spiders, ants, ground beetles, frogs, lizards and snakes all EAT fleas.

Snakes, ants, beetles, spiders, frogs and lizards eat fleas and worms eat flea eggs.

(Cats do not eat worms and beetles, but birds and rodents do and this is how prey also becomes infested).