Sentences with phrase «grasshopper species»

Hundreds of other grasshopper species thriveddespite, or even because of, these habitat changes.

Because grasshoppers often share habitats with a number of other grasshopper species, natural selection has driven each to stand out from the others when calling.

Not exact matches

Mockingbirds, pyrrhuloxia (Mexican cardinals), and other species readily ate the pods as they turned red, but the real damage to the entire plant was caused by grasshoppers.

And beside these roads, grasshoppers are becoming the study species of choice.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

While working on a rare little known group of Oriental wasps that most likely parasitise the eggs of grasshoppers, locusts or crickets, not only did a team of four entomologists discover four previously unknown species, but they also found that another four species within the same genus (Habroteleia) were in fact all one and the same — a fifth species discovered more than a century ago.

But late in the Triassic period — between 210 million and 220 million years ago, when oxygen levels were similar to those of today — one species closely related to today's grasshoppers had wings ranging from 15 to 18 cm long, he notes.

This species lives in nests, with up to 1000 individuals, mostly females, spinning dense, meter - sized webs capable of snaring 15 - centimeter - long grasshoppers.

The study finds that the region's Swallowtail Butterfly, which can't be found anywhere else in the UK, is at risk — along with three quarters of bumblebee, grasshopper and moth species.

Of the approximately 8,000 species of grasshoppers, only about 10 of them are likely to morph into swarming locusts, Burrows says.

Hyde — like changes in at least one species of grasshopper — the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria).

Bomar suggests these other species, especially thered - legged grasshopper and the migratory grasshopper, are stepping intothe niche the Rocky Mountain locust vacated.

Today we see convergent evolution in species as diverse as: shark and camels, shrimps and grasshoppers, flamingos and spoonbills, marsupial and placental mammals and bioluminescent sea creatures.

Other species were also identified, like earthworms, ants, termites, centipedes, beetles, grasshoppers, cockroaches and woodlice, which may also be called «ecosystem engineers» (specifically earthworms, termites and some ants) because their activities modify the soil, enriching its productivity.

From grasshoppers to rabbits a much more pleasant species.

Humanity as a species has a funny tendency of grasshoppering until the first blizzard hits.

Why species need to be mobile or flying, such as spiders, grasshoppers, and snails; learn about his «Green Roof Process - Correlation Model»;