Sentences with phrase «for scale insects»

We thought that if warming gives scales such a powerful boost in the city, global warming could do the same thing for scale insects in rural forests.

Not exact matches

By evaluating the scale insect remains attached to each specimen, Youngsteadt estimated scale population density and compared it to the average August temperature for the year and place where the specimen was collected.

Three - including sterile insect technique, vector traps and toxic sugar baits to attract and kill mosquitoes - were still too experimental to consider for scaled - up pilot projects, the WHO said.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

This deposit is famous for its intricate fossil preservation, and the moth specimen was so exquisite that Yale University paleontologist Maria McNamara and colleagues were able to zoom in on the insect's wings to detect the fine details of tiny scales.

They also pose natural and economic threats, competing with native ants and pollinators, and protecting plant pests such as aphids and scales in return for the sweet honeydew secretions that these insects produce.

But for targeted control on the scale of towns and small cities, the modified insects could prove to be a useful tool.

Depending on the species, cichlids may scrape algae from rocks, feed on plankton, crack open snail shells, forage for insect larvae, or prey on other fish, including their eggs or scales.

Insect outbreaks such as this represent an important mechanism by which climate change may undermine the ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon, and such impacts should be accounted for in large - scale modelling analyses.

After careful trials, the first ever recorded introduction into Galapagos of a species for the purpose of biological control took place when the Australian ladybug Rodolia cardinalis was released to combat the scale insect.

Regina Silveira Mundus Admirabilis, a large - scale site - specific graphic vinyl installation engaging the façade of SITE's building, courtyard, and mezzanine, will depict a of insects that become an allegory for global corruption and environmental degradation.

This team is the first to account for large scale insect outbreaks in an analysis of forest carbon balances - and to show the positive feedback loop between climate change and warmth loving insect pests.