Sentences with phrase «hungry insects»

It's hard to think of plants as being good listeners, but they do respond to sound waves, especially when hungry insects are involved.

Here you battle in 4 different environments using a combination of three different characters as you defend a stockpile of food from an onslaught of hungry insect enemies.

Researchers pinpoint an area in the drosophila brain that can trick hungry insects into believing they are full, offering hope for new weight - loss remedies in humans

Ecologists who study plant defenses have long predicted that while mature leaves can rely on physical toughness to thwart hungry insects and other animals, tender young leaves need something extra to protect themselves.

Jander lab members investigate the chemical defenses that young corn plants use to fight off simultaneous attacks from hungry insects.

Braam's team then probed whether hungry insects could tell the difference.

Farmers use these chemicals on their crops to keep away hungry insects that could destroy their plants.

The great imagery continues as the camera burrows into the green lawn and finds hungry insects beneath - a metaphor for the surface and buried lives of the town.

Ever since insects developed a taste for vegetation, plants have faced the same dilemma: use limited resources to out - compete their neighbors for light to grow, or, invest directly in defense against hungry insects.

The summer's unusual heat and abundance of hungry insects had promised an iffy tomato season anyway, but, needless to say, by the end of September, it was clear I would miss out on my yearly homegrown tomato activities: no weekends of steamy kitchen windows with boiling pots of canned sauce featuring my prized Cherokee Purples; no homemade, slow - simmered San Marzano tomato paste; no sheet pans lining the counters with roasted black cherry tomatoes (the best tomato flavor on this earth, ever).

The plants produce that insect repellent at the time of day when hungry insects are most likely to stop by.

Professor Acda said the material, made of compressed cement and chicken feathers, could be widely used for housing, replacing boards now made with wood chips, which are easily ruined by hungry insects.

I'm totally torn between wanting fresh grown cherry tomatoes at the ready, and fear of being a snack for some hungry insect.

They deprived the flies of food for one night, and exposed the hungry insects to two different odors the next day.

Some of the chemicals young plants use to fend off hungry insects may be useful as drugs.

Ian Baldwin will discuss his studies of how plants use chemical signals to fend off hungry insects or attract helpful pollinators

Heat, light, and moisture levels must be kept just so; hungry insects must be fended off; ever more space must be found to accommodate new growth.