Sentences with phrase «from tree bark»

In the same way that we couldn't believe our eyes with the wearable batman suit made from tree bark, the costumes of the «Moss Men» are just as incredible and surreal.

As part of this, she sources inspiration through her travels and from the simplest of surroundings, from tree bark and landscapes to roof tiles and crumbling walls.

The milky white sap is extracted from the tree bark, allowed to harden into a gum resin for several days, and then scraped off in tear - shaped droplets.2

Same thing with arabinogalactan (from tree bark).

In all species tested, the head horn is inserted under the opponent to pry him from the tree bark on which the beetles live, but the maneuvers are different.

Not exact matches

Most of the cork used in bottling wine, some 80 % of it, is harvested in Portugal and Spain from the bark of cork trees.

Each tree can replace its bark every 9 to 12 years and the very best quality corks come from a tree's second or third or subsequent harvest.

Napping may sound so simple an infant could excel at it, but according to an infographic from The Boston Globe, optimizing your afternoon sleep actually requires a bit of know - how (hat tip to Barking up the Wrong Tree for the pointer).

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

This assures you of a steady stream of traffic of ready - to - pay customers, and it prevents you from effectively barking up the wrong tree.

Another top tip to beat your laziness comes from super productive professor and author Cal Newport via blog Barking up the Wrong Tree.

When his father, Peter Dillon, wants to increase his selection of cocktail bitters, he scrapes bark from a walnut tree from a nearby winery.

Brahmins and their Nair supervisors, although living far away from the territory of Malayarayan tribes received, «trifling rents from the Arrians for their fruit - trees and cultivated land, and besides this, each headman had to furnish a certain quantity of honey for the raja's birthday, dig a few elephant pits, and help, with bark ropes, to conduct the animals, when trapped, into the taming cages.

One should be able to tell the age of a tree from its bark; in truth one can also tell a man's age in the Good by the intensity of his repentance.

Since I never looked it up, I turned to one of my fave instructional learning tools, @youtube, and we learned that cinnamon is made from the barks of trees, rolled up by people in a forest (well at least the people in a forest in the video we watched).

Cinnamon, a warming spice derived from the bark of the Cinnamomum tree, is highly praised (and ranked) for its protective antioxidant properties.

It can commonly be extracted from certain tree barks, corn husks, and mushrooms.

Originating in Sri Lanka, cinnamon comes from the inner bark of a tropical asian tree Cinnamomum zeylanicum.

We develop, manufacture and market natural extracts obtained only from forest biomass (recycling of residual tree bark from timber processing).

Angle for him from March to August with a red worm; afterwards with a butterfly and a green fly, and with a bait you find among green reeds, and a bait that breeds in the bark of a dead tree.

I watch her as she tells me the details of how she got up the tree, her legs are dangling and swinging freely, she is running her hands along the tree bark and picking at the moss and lichen, she reaches out to break a small twig from its branch.

Already the Chicago Park District has spent nearly $ 500,000 removing uprooted trees from the Oct. 2 storm and repairing those with stripped bark and downed limbs.

Use rocks as a medium for masterful chalk works of art and build mini cities from twigs, tree bark, and stones.

Essential oils are subtle, aromatic volatile liquids distilled from shrubs, flowers, trees, roots, bushes, barks, leaves, and seeds.

«A cancer drug like Taxol for instance is made from old yew trees, which naturally produce the substance in their bark.

He also knew that bark from Peruvian cinchona trees was the only source of quinine, which is why the medicine was costly and very difficult to obtain.

He's also been studying yohimbine, a prescription drug that can be extracted from the bark of a species of West African evergreen tree and sometimes appears in bodybuilding capsules.

«Our money is not in cutting trees,» Droń says as he pours a craft beer named after the bark beetle and brewed with spruce needles from Białowieża.

Water and mineral nutrients — the so - called sap flow — travel from the roots to the top of the tree within a layer of wood found under the bark.

Scientists think trees don't die from not taking in carbon, but rather it weakens the tree's defenses and makes trees more susceptible to predators like bark beetles.

The cedar's common name, arborvitae, which means «tree of life,» dates from the 16th century, when French explorer Jacques Cartier and his men brewed tea from its bark and leaves to overcome scurvy.

Tens of millions of ash trees across Europe are dying from the Hymenoscyphus fraxinea fungus — the most visible signs that a tree is infected with ash dieback fungus are cankers on the bark and dying leaves.

«Adhesives and composite materials made from Swiss tree bark.»

They have developed methods to extract tannins from native tree bark and tested their suitability in the production of adhesives for fibreboards and chipboards.

Studies conducted by the National Research Programme «Resource Wood» show that tannins extracted from native tree bark can be used to produce adhesives and composite materials.

Burning embers from the bark of trees were carried aloft by shifting winds and updrafts of the fire's own convection currents for up to 20 miles, jumping across roads, clearing fire breaks, and starting new blazes on the parched ground.

For instance, an insect hiding on tree bark might look very different from one that is hiding on a leaf.

However, when the Industrial Revolution occurred, soot from factories covered the birch trees» white bark, turning them black.

Dubbed «tree rat» by its detractors, the invader has made a pest of itself in its new land, where it is in the habit of eating flower bulbs and birds» eggs and stripping the bark from young birch trees.

Fringed and fuzzy, or as slick as a coat of paint, lichens are mosaics of fungi partnered with algae or cyanobacteria that speckle tree bark and dangle from the canopy -LRB-

She and Guido Pauli, professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy in the UIC College of Pharmacy, recently collaborated on another study that showed extract from the root bark of Chinese red pine trees has similar properties to the grape seed extract.

If you learned about malaria even briefly, you probably remember that quinine, extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree of the Andes, was its earliest cure.

However, the researchers also considered another possibility: If forests regenerate as mosaics of suitable trees on the landscape (based on size and density), though individual trees may come under attack by bark beetles, this variability might also protect the forest from broad - scale outbreaks.

At one site in Western Australia, the scientists gathered leaves, twigs, and bark from eucalyptus trees growing above a known gold deposit.

At the beginning of the second cold era, heavy rains and severe floods devastated agricultural production, and during the subsequent famine people were forced to eat tree bark and even seeds from the excrement of wild geese.

Similarly, birds from the genus Nyctibius, with bark - colored plumage, masquerade as tree stumps by sitting motionless during the day.

The most widely used drug for this purpose until now was the centuries - old quinine, derived from the bark of a South American tree; no modern drug had worked better.

Dr Kelly Vargas from the University of Bristol said: «It seems that, in trying to classify these fossils, we've previously been barking up the wrong branch of the animals family tree.»

The one - year grant funded the creation of Wild Pitch Yeast, LLC, a company that assists craft brewers and homebrewers with the extraction of brewer's yeasts from local sources such as berries, flowers and tree bark, offering the results for re-sale.

She says its teeth «are quite different» from the modern sap - eating monkeys that the team compared it with, and the long, thin lower jaw seems to her too weak for chomping on tree bark.