Sentences with phrase «insects called»

MSV is transmitted amongst maize and other weed host plants by small insects called leafhoppers.

Newly discovered insects called Neotrogla are anatomically reversed: males have a vagina and the females a penis

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

One newly recognized form of deception, used by plant - eating insects called leafhoppers, was thought to have a whole different purpose.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT Insects called leafhoppers (Alnetoidia alneti shown) produce microscopic, antireflective spheres that the bugs rub onto their eggs to camouflage them.

Fun fact: Many red and pink candies use a «natural» food coloring made of insects called carmine — definitely not suitable for vegans!

Many red and pink candies use a «natural» food coloring made of insects called carmine — definitely not suitable for vegans!

The four FBI agents who came to Dr. Sanborn's home for the interview asked him a series of questions about insect calls in general and cicadas in particular.

Florida citrus growers have had to contend with citrus greening, a disease spread by a small invasive insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.

A damaging insect called the spotted lanternfly, once native to Asia, has now been found in New York and local experts are asking the public to help spot the invasive species.

One of the most intimate so - called mutualisms can be found inside a notorious enemy of the American farmer, an insect called the glassy - winged sharpshooter.

For years, she had heard talk of how eastern hemlocks, which are found from Georgia to Canada, were being killed by an invasive sap - sucking insect called the woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae).

So Patrik Nosil, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, turned to a stick insect called Timema cristinae.

To which insect family does the insect called a midge belong?

The Harvard Forest has already been invaded by an insect called the woolly adelgid that kills hemlock trees, and managers there fear a large die - off in coming years.

Not exact matches

Bacteria and insects will survive quite happily even if our so - called intelligence leads us to destroy ourselves.

The people calling me a gnostic can not understand that I am a psychologist, describing modes of psychical behaviour precisely like a biologist studying the instinctual activities of insects.

«For instance, our ancient predecessors were called the «Nutcracker Man» and are said to have survived on chufa and insects which is why they had a bigger brain.»

Because there is a detergent - like bitter coating on each quinoa seed, called saponin, which naturally protects the quinoa from birds and insects.

Moving in tightly, using natural light to achieve a kind of luminescent quality, he now works with what might be called commonplace objects of nature, creating abstract studies of the form and fabric of lichens, ice crystals, seeds, wind - blasted wood, insect - eaten leaves.

Listen for the call of birds, the croak of frogs, and the buzz of insects.

Plans call for Willowgate Square to have a butterfly garden or rows of colorful wildflowers planted to attract butterflies, other insects and hummingbirds, Quayle said.

For the past few years, Boston's Museum of Science (MOS) along with university researchers, tracked these amazing insects through a citizen science project called Firefly Watch.

The conversation was wide - ranging: we talked about the discovery of a new group of insects in which the females have what many are calling a «penis - like structure» (but which the researchers have labeled a gynosome), -LSB-...]

In the Middle Ages, people believed that insects were evil, born from mud in a process called spontaneous generation.

The Entomological Society of America is updating its master list of insect names to reflect decades of genetic and other evidence that termites belong in the cockroach order, called Blattodea.

Like ants and honeybees, beetles communicate via scented chemicals called pheromones, one of which warns the insects to stay away from particular trees.

To extract tasty insects from crevices, they craft a selection of hooks and long, barbed tapers called stepped - cut tools, made by intricately cutting a pandanus leaf with their beaks.

This so - called hexapod gap has long vexed paleontologists, given that insects today are found in almost every imaginable land habitat.

A FLOWER»S delicate fragrance is not just a come - hither call to insect pollinators.

Insect scientists, or entomologists, are being called upon with increasing frequency to apply their knowledge and expertise to criminal and civil proceedings.

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

There are very few flowers, and even those Darwin called «insignificant, ugly little flowers» — after all, the insects that generally spread seeds or pester mammals are largely absent as well (a nice bonus if you hate bug bites as much as I do).

The advantage derives from insects» compound eyes, which scoop up visual information through hundreds or thousands of visual receptors, called ommatidia, covering the eye's curved surface.

LONDON (Reuters)- The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Friday for pilot projects to test two experimental ways to curb Zika - carrying mosquitoes, including testing the release of genetically modified insects and bacteria that stop their eggs hatching.

Jurassic Cricket Biologists in Beijing determined the mating call of a 165 - million - year - old male katydid by measuring fossils of the noisemaking apparatus in the insect's wings.

C. kunmingensis belongs to a group of animals called fuxianhuiids, and was an early ancestor of modern arthropods — the diverse group that includes insects, spiders and crustaceans.

The mutation affected a regulatory system called «quorum sensing,» which allows bacteria to sense the size of their own population in the insect.

A team at Yale University, Rockefeller University in New York City, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta engineered a strain of the bacterium Rhodococcus rhodnii, which lives in the gut of the kissing bug, to produce an insect antibiotic called cecropin A.

Apart from the two new dung beetles, formally called Onthophagus clavijeroi and Onthophagus martinpierai, the present paper also provides theories about the current distributions of these insects across the Mexican mountains and their putative evolutive relationships.

Zoom in on the seemingly smooth curves of those facets and, in many insects — like the robber fly seen here — you'll find they're studded with an array of nanoscale protuberances called «corneal nipples.»

Their poop contains a chemical called histamine, part of the suite of pheromones that the insects excrete to attract others of their kind.

«We learned that the mutualism involves a third player: a species of scale insect that feeds on the tree sap and produces an excrement called honeydew, on which the ants also feed, and makes the ants a stronger mutualist.»

The researchers found that the so - called mushroom bodies, the lobes that underlie learning and memory in insects, were larger in dominant wasps than in their subordinate peers.

Carnivores that eat insects primarily or exclusively are called insectivores, while those that eat fish primarily or exclusively are called piscivores.

Dragonfly - like insects with foot - long wingspans buzzed in the humid air, and chunky primitive spiders called trigonotarbids, bearing thick black - tipped fangs, sat atop trees, says Smithsonian Institution paleobiologist Bill DiMichele.

When LepNet — as the project is being called — is complete, it will be one of the largest databases of insect data to date, opening centuries of scientific inquiry to the new world of data analytics.

Called odilorhabdins, or ODLs, the antibiotics are produced by symbiotic bacteria found in soil - dwelling nematode worms that colonize insects for food.

«Altruistic suicide,» as social - insect biologists call it.

Horticultural expert Mark Peacock's technique calls for a fertilizer blend of worm excrement to boost protective bacteria around the plant's roots and crushed insects to stimulate natural defense mechanisms.