Sentences with phrase «insects feed»

Smaller insects feed the birds we love to see in our yard and trees.

These insects feed on your pet's blood and can cause health problems ranging from allergic reactions (dermatitis) to serious tick - borne illnesses (Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, and others).

As these insects feed on your dog they not only affect his or her health, but they can also alter your pet's behavior.

These tiny insects feed off your fluffy friends blood, causing very itchy and sometimes painful bites.

These tiny insects feed off the blood of your pet and can cause intense itching and discomfort for him as well as for you.

These bloodsucking insects feed on mammals and lay eggs in their fur.

Cochineal insects feed on a certain type of cactus native to South America and Mexico.

Frogs are exposed to flame retardants through dirt, plants and insects they feed upon.

The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, reproduces in the human liver before jumping to mosquitoes when the insects feed on human blood.

For over a hundred years, the scientific literature has accepted that these insects feed exclusively on blood.

«Dandelion uses latex to protect its roots against insect feeding: Single chemical compound in latex sap of plant deters cockchafer larvae.»

In 2001, scientists climbing Ball's Pyramid, a treacherous rocky outcrop southeast of Lord Howe Island, discovered three stick insects feeding on a lone bush.

«We succeeded in visualizing the dynamic signal processing of intracellular calcium as a secondary messenger which is elicited by insect feeding and transmitted systemically to unattacked areas of the plant,» Axel Mithöfer, the leader of the project group «Physiology of Plant Defense» in the Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, summarizes the results of the study.

In the UF / IFAS study, scientists wanted to know how and why some butterflies survive wildfires and prescribed burns, particularly where the insect feeds and lays eggs on fire - adapted plants.

We therefore wanted to know whether dodder can transmit insect feeding - induced signals among different hosts and whether these signals can even activate defenses against insects,» explains Jianqiang Wu, who worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology as a PhD student and later a project leader, and who is now heading a Max Planck Partner Group in China.

[11] Insects fed on the spores of early Devonian plants, and the Rhynie chert also provides evidence that organisms fed on plants using a «pierce and suck» technique.

Some specialized diets, such as ectoparasitism (insects feeding on vertebrate hosts), evolve rarely and act as evolutionary traps, from which other diets do not easily evolve, whilst others, such as predation and fungivory, evolve frequently and readily give rise to other dietary types.

Later studies suggested that respiration by plant leaves can be an important source of error in the calculation of insect feed intake using gravimetric methods [45] and can cause major errors in energy budget studies of plant - feeding insects [46].

Crickets — Crickets are probably the most popular insect fed to leopard geckos.

When mosquitoes feed off an infected mammal, they pick up baby heartworms called microfilaria which grow and develop into infectious larvae in the mosquito until the insect feeds again, this time on your pet.

The idea of tiny insects feeding on the blood of your cat may make you shudder, but fleas are a very common problem.

'' Problem insects can affect the vigor of plants and landscapes, either through disease, insect feeding or other destructive activities.

Not exact matches

Some blood - feeding insects, like lice and fleas, live on or near their hosts.

It also approved of introducing insects into animal feed — a move that brings bugs a step closer to human consumption.

Feeding the developing world — with insects.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

For four years now, not a single pair has been able to feed its young due to lack of insects in the area....

These agriculturalists of the insect world feed exclusively on certain kinds of fungi which they cultivate in subterranean «gardens» on especially collected pieces of leaves and other plant parts.

Separating symptoms caused by mosaic diseases from those caused by abnormal pH, herbicide injury, nutritional deficiencies, feeding damage by mites or insects, and so forth may be difficult.

Webs would indicate spiders, which don't feed on chiles but rather the insects infesting them.

Semolina (sooji), all purpose flour (maida) and whole pulses like moong dal are always prone to tiny insects and many ladies are fed up those.

Insect - based ingredients (e.g. flours), snacks and animal feeds that draw on crickets, meal worms, locusts and ants.

Many bird species feed on insects, and an abundant presence may thus also contribute to a better natural pest control.

There is logic in this: the rivers contain little feed during the cold months, and even in the summertime the coastal streams of the Northwest lack the heavy insect life and big fly hatches of more easterly waters.

Not long afterward, Gordon settled in the Catskills and then devoted the rest of his life to fishing for trout, studying the insects upon which they feed, tying flies professionally and writing articles for the Fishing Gazette in England and Forest and Stream in this country.

As children feed him insect - shaped puzzle pieces, they will also learn about shapes.

With the Buds Outdoor Organics Mozzie Clear Lotion you can let your little adventurer enjoy the great outdoors, or the playground without feeding the local insects.

Considering other species, biological limitations have not prevented fathers among insects, birds and mammals to become intensely involved in the task of feeding.

This mostly relies on pollen becoming stuck to the bodies of bees and other insects when they feed on flowers, and then being deposited on the next plant they visit.

To find out what was happening inside the tower, the researchers fed half their ants a liquid laced with radioactive iodide and then filmed the insects using a camera that captured X-rays.

«And certainly, implications for ecosystem for ecosystem function, particularly for forest health, since these bats feed primarily on insects, and the insects are a major part of these forests.

When it's feeding time at the spider lab, Marshall uses tweezers to seize a cricket hopping around the food terrarium, opens a tarantula container, and drops in the insect.

The scientists are now planning further experiments study the co-evolution of dandelions and their root herbivores in order of find out whether the presence of root - feeding insects has shaped the plant defensive chemistry in the course of evolution and whether the insects show adaptations to dandelion defenses.

«If you want to feed a lot of people, insects are the best choice in terms of getting the biggest bang for your buck.»

The Latin American insects are named after their habit of night time feeding on the face of the victim, often spreading the deadly Chagas disease.

Both birds nest on cliffs and feed on grazed land, but the choughs eat insects while the ravens feed on carrion.

There are some exceptions for fishmeal and fish feed, but as the law currently stands, insect meal is a non-starter.

«Consumer insight, such as provided by this study, is important for a successful positioning and marketing of insects or insect protein in Western societies, either as a food for human consumption or as a protein source in animal feed.

They found that five of the insects contained human DNA, indicating they had bitten a person, and two of those insects had fed on two different people.

Meanwhile, insects in the soils fed on the bones, leaving behind tell - tale burrow marks.