Sentences with phrase «horned beetle»

This absorbing entry in the Scientists in the Field series discusses the Asian long - horned beetle's invasive presence in New England and the efforts of scientists to stop the destruction of trees and forests.

Hanging from the washer fluid line was a horned beetle.

This is a male specimen of the new long - horned beetle species Borneostyrax cristatus gen. et sp. nov..

«The first long - horned beetle giving birth to live young discovered in Borneo.»

It's official (in the horned beetle world at least), females prefer courtship over competitiveness — and it doesn't matter about the size of your mandibles either.

Male horned beetles have enlarged lower jaws — or mandibles — used to fight rivals, and those with larger mandibles do have a mating advantage when there is direct male - male competition.

«We studied the diversity of the rarely collected wingless long - horned beetles from Borneo, which is one of the major biodiversity hotspots in the world,» says main author and PhD student Radim Gabriš.

The long - horned beetles are a family, called Cerambycidae, comprising about 35,000 known species and forming one of the largest beetle groups.

A remarkably high diversity of the wingless long - horned beetles in the mountains of northern Borneo is reported by three Czech researchers from the Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.

She knows her horned beetles and dragonflies, which I dare say is more than can be said for most filmmakers.

On both sides are «cards» — random images of lizards, horned beetles, deep - sea fish, and angry tomatoes.

In addition to ticks, other invasive pests like winter moth, Asian long - horned beetles and emerald ash borers are finding Maine's climate more hospitable, which presents challenges to the state's forestry sector, says Small Woodlot Owners of Maine Director Tom Doak.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

An international study by scientists at the University of Exeter and the Universities of Okayama and Tsukuba in Japan investigated the complicated sexual conflict over mating in Gnatocerus cornutus, the horned flour - beetle.

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

Adjusted for body size, the disproportionately supersized sperm outdoes such exuberant body parts as pheasant display feathers, deer antlers, scarab beetle horns and the forward - grasping forceps of earwigs.

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.

But in the epic battle for dung, it's female beetles that have resorted to horned aggression.

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

• The beetles pictured in our article on genetic inheritance were stag beetles, not broad - horned flour beetles as the article...

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Not to toot my own horn, but I was awesome at spotting Beetles from afar.

Prongs bolted onto the structures like Stag beetle horns or metallic joint replacements, cracked wishbones, buffed nuts and bolts like the undersides of new car chassis.