Sentences with phrase «insects by a lab»

Out of curiosity, she once did similar fat analysis with oil that was left over after protein extraction of insects by a lab colleague.

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The US Food and Drug Administration issued a «preliminary finding» that the genetically modified insects, produced by Oxitec at its labs in Oxford, England, and shipped as eggs to Florida, would have essentially «no significant impact» on human health, animal health, or the ecosystem.

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

When scientists setup an artificial ecosystem in the lab, complete with ladybugs, parasites, and lacewings, insects that like to make a meal of wasp cocoons, they found that when the cocoons were between the legs of a living ladybug, only 35 % were killed by predators, compared with 85 % if the cocoon was attached to a dead ladybug, and nearly 100 % if it was free from any ladybug.

That hole at the bottom is big enough for a royal larva to fall through, confirms insect physiologist Steven Cook at the honeybee research lab in Beltsville, Md., run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.

The emergence of resistant pink bollworm in India provided the researchers an opportunity to test the hypothesis that insects in the field would evolve resistance to Bt toxin by the same genetic mechanism found previously in the lab.

«Our experiments with fipronil and bifenthrin sprays indicate that the overall kill of these insecticides on Argentine ant colonies is substantially improved — by 57 to 142 percent — by incorporating (Z)-9-hexadecenal in the sprays,» said Dong - Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology and the research project leader, whose lab focuses on urban entomology, insect behavior and chemical ecology.

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski, a former postdoctoral fellow in Whitesides» Harvard lab, have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing and walking.

Hadany and her colleagues are in the process of testing their theory in the lab by evaluating how antibiotics affect the behavior of social insects.

How about gin made with ants... Distillery adds new dimension to insect potential By Rachel Arthur +, 20 - May - 2015 «A UK craft distiller and a Danish food lab have collaborated to produce Anty Gin: a product using the essence of red wood ants and botanicals.»