Sentences with phrase «for beetle»

Mind you, I was * looking hard * for beetle - killed trees, and I didn't see any obvious evidence of major bark - beetle infestations then.

It functions for the beetle as both home and source of food.

They work great for the beetle, and throwing or rolling bombs was quite enjoyable most of the time, but the bow and arrows and the clawshot were wildly imprecise.

Last year, when my character in the 3DS game Animal Crossing: New Leaf frequented Tortimer's island for beetle farming, she was met by the stereotype of the haggling island native.

I swear I didn't plan for the beetle and me to coordinate it just happened!

The crow's unique bill allows it to hold a tool tightly and see what it is doing as it forages for beetle grubs.

They found that avian predators did indeed pick off a lot of beetles: in the rainy season — peak time for beetle activity — borer infestation almost doubled when birds were excluded from foraging on coffee shrubs, rising from 4.6 % to 8.5 %.

«This is very puzzling,» says Rozen, «and [it] poses a clear challenge to the simple notion that bacteria are uniformly bad for beetle larvae.»

Hahaha I was going to say roaches but even typing it grossed me out too much, that's why I opted for beetles.

Thus, for these beetles, skiing across a pond at breakneck speeds costs a lot of energy and requires greater wing thrust than normal flying.

For these beetles to find a mate of the right species, timing is everything, according to research from a University of Arizona - led team.

«Climate change is creating more opportunity for beetles,» Turner says.

However, the new research shows that four current methods of estimation — dating from 2001 onwards — suggest much lower figures, namely a mean of 1.5 million for beetles (range 0.9 - 2.1 million) and 6.8 million for terrestrial arthropods (range 5.9 - 7.8 million).

When talking about whether theology has anything to learn from science, the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane used to quip that God must have «an inordinate fondness for beetles.»

Variables were introduced: open season on moles; reincarnation for beetles; and omnivorous diets for owls.

One of his best - known works is the 1967 album cover for The Beetles» Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Even if the landscape does not burn, the trees become so stressed they are easy prey for beetles.

On being asked what one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation, Haldane is said to have answered, «An inordinate fondness for beetles.

J.B.S.Haldane is said to have remarked that one thing we know about the supreme being is that if he exists he has «an inordinate fondness for beetles,» there being more than 350,000 species of them (beetles, that is), with the count still rising.

THanks for the beetling link - now my hubby is inspired to make some for kiddo's bithrday!

An Inordinate Fondess for Beetles = -.

Not exact matches

Asian lady beetles, known for their bite and...

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

In the remembrance of the late John Lenen of the beetles for his song «Imagine»... Wonder how was able to imagine what he had imagined when having a group like those in contol of life or was that the reason that pushed him to sing what he sang and maybe killed for??

I thank them for the information and tell them there are black beetles in my kitchen, washing soda in my laundry and coal in my cellar.

But there is one particularly interesting bug — the Namib desert beetle — whose water drinking habits are proving pretty interesting for entrepreneurs.

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

You ignorant nutters have to believe in a super duper double top secret magical hyper macroevolution to account for all these species of beetle!

And since you nutters claim that Noah would have one «kind» of beetle on the boat, that means that a brand new species of beetle had to evolve every 5 days for the past 4,000 years!

Under the bark of the trees, for instance, there are millions of beetles which, undisturbed, would destroy the trees.

For example, the Colorado potato beetle will feed on pepper, but it generally prefers the other Solanaceous vegetables, particularly potatoes and eggplants.

So on December 13, just four days before National Maple Syrup Day on December 17, the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association and Vermont state officials hosted a special pancake and maple syrup breakfast to thank partners for supporting the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) eradication program in Massachusetts.

Furthermore, this approach has demonstrated a better natural pest control for a rape pest (the rape pollen beetle) in Germany72 and for the cherry oak aphid in Sweden73.

You just might kick your beetle problem, baseball, but I have some bad news for you...

The earth as we know it, Arnett says, could not survive without beetles, which serve as food for fish, birds and other wildlife.

«Kids can watch for the bugs that help the process, like bess beetles, worms, ants and termites.»

checking, two times a day, for the tortoise beetle, potato beetle, and 3 - lined cucumber beetles that have already made their appearance.

Speaking of those helpers, I am particularly grateful for their help on hands and knees in the potato patch, where they can easily see under the plants to squash those eggs of the three lined potato beetle.

Should parents not be informed of the rather frequent recalls of infant formula products — the most recent for the presence of beetle parts in the formula?

For reference, other brands I've used: little beetle snaps, little beetle velcro, imse velcro and wool pull - ons (can't remember brand).

Her husband is starchitect Bernard Tschumi, who is responsible for the Lower East Side's Blue Condominium, which beetles over the Essex Crossing site.

New York state officials are asking swimming pool owners to look for a tree - killing invasive beetle when they clean their pool filters.

For example, it helped him see how, in his beetles, «sneaky» males that lack big horns and instead gain access to females by digging tunnels past the big - horned males guarding them could eventually make horns obsolete.

The beetles use recently scorched areas for mating.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

The bombardier beetle (Stenaptinus insignis), for example, produces the toxin benzoquinone and byproduct heat in a kind of internal combustion chamber, and then squirts it at any perceived threat.

Darwin's beautiful idea explains why there are hundreds of thousands of species of beetles and flowering plants, why birds» feathers are ideal for flight and insulation, and why a desert plant possesses hairy leaves to reduce water loss.

So for ambrosia beetles, the smell of ethanol isn't just a sign that a tree is stressed or dying.

It must be applied just before young beetles emerge in spring to search for new trees to colonize, and there is no foolproof way to know when that will happen.