Sentences with phrase «insects living»

Here's something you may not have known: increased temperatures have affected insects living in the forests on mountains.
The authors say they've combined «empirical fitness curves» with «projected geographical distribution of climate change for the next century» and have concluded that insects living in the tropics may suffer more from global warming than insects that live in cooler locales.
Otodectic mites tiny insects living in the ear canal and feeding by piercing the skin in the canal.
See if you can find any insects living in the nooks and crannies of the car.
Now, scientists have discovered that a gut parasite may be the key to keeping these insects living the single life, stopping them from swarming and keeping crops safe.
It uses its bill to forage on the forest floor, flipping leaves over and feeding on the insects living beneath them.
This harms fungi, bacteria, and insects living in the soil.
So if a population goes extinct, that will affect the insects living there.
Despite the common perception that bees are social insects living in large colonies, most bee species are solitary.
In addition to these benefits, which can reduce a product's reliance on canning and refrigeration, the technology can also be applied for disinfestation of insects living in fruit.
Even as he's evoking insect life in terms that recall the domesticity of The Wind in the Willows, he wants to write about the natural world as if he had access to it independently of our perception of it in human terms» as if he were capable of seeing the Insect - in - Itself instead of the insect as seen by a man.
Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»
And a stubborn and long - suffering minority of purists has meanwhile been borrowing from the drifters to prove that Steelhead, which have long been taken on flies in the warm, summer - run streams, can also be taken with them in the winter when they stay deep in the chill current and when insect life is nonexistent.
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.
You can also keep an eye out for bird and insect life.
Other trout and their food were not so fortunate and were left to dry out and die in the afternoon sun... These trout were wild, and consider the tremendous amount of insect life which support these trout that were also destroyed.
Informative captions offer fascinating facts about insect life.
The period when the insect lived, the Eocene, was one of the warmest in history, and lush tropical or subtropical rain forest surrounded the lake; the two - and - a-half-inch-long adult male most likely sat and snacked upon the leaves of plants from the laurel or the pea family.
«Does this wall painting symbolize an act of homage to the great goddess on a spring morning in the Konya Plain amid fields of flowers and humming insect life nearly eight thousand years ago,» Mellaart wrote, «or is this too fanciful an interpretation?»
One may think that the extreme north of Europe is low in insect life, except for the notorious blood - sucking flies.
The insects live an average of 45 to 60 days, but those raised in tubes containing Truvia (pictured)-- one of the best - selling sugar substitutes in the United States — lived for an average of only 5.8 days.
Through studies of these bugs, whose bodies match the leaves the insects live on, researchers have found that although groups of the bug have evolved similar appearances, they achieved that mostly via different changes in their DNA.
The resistant insects lived longer and produced more eggs than did those not resistant to the parasite, and after nine generations, some 70 % of the population was resistant.
Also working on a novel of a distant future where intelligent insect life has evolved and evidence that humans may have been intelligent shakes things up.
Insecticide sprays can kill many species and will impact the diversity of insect life and dependent species.
Many insects live in complex social groups, for instance, and they've had about 400 million years to cultivate their smarts.
A unique vision of insect life from French directors Thomas Szabo and Helene Giraud emerged as one of the most talked about films from the recent American Film Market.
Swick used the money to monitordifferent aspects of the river, including water quality, invasive plants, and animal and insect life.
Reading Passage with turn and talk 14 - 15 - Insect Example Interactive Notebook Directions and example 16 - Insect examples INB Foldable flap book 17 - Insect Information Reading Passage with turn and talk 18 - Parts of an Insect diagram 19 - Label parts of an insect 20 - Label parts of an insect answer key 21 - 22 - Main parts of an insect interactive notebook flap book directions and example 23 - Main parts of an insect interactive notebook foldable flap book 24 - Ladybugs Reading Passage with turn and talk 25 - Insect Life Cycle Diagram Example: Ladybugs 26 - Eggs Reading Passage with turn and talk 27 - Larva Reading Passage with turn and talk 28 - Pupa Reading Passage with turn and talk 29 - Adult Ladybug Reading Passage with turn and talk 30 - Insect life cycle reading comprehension fill in the blank 31 - Reading Comprehension answer key 32 - Interactive Notebook Insect Life Cycle Foldables Instructions 33 - Interactive Notebook Life Cycle Foldables 34 - 35 - Completed Interactive Notebook Life Cycle Example 36 - Ladybug Life Cycle Timeline 37 - Ladybug Life Cycle Timeline Answer Key 38 - Insects vs. Spiders Reading Passage with turn and talk 39 - Venn Diagram 40 - 42 - Venn Diagram INB instructions, example, and foldable 43 - Ladybug Life Cycle Sequence activity 44 - Sequence activity answer key 45 - Insect coloring page 46 - Cut, color, and past the insects into the habitat 47 - 48 - Insect sort and answer key 49 - Insect Observation Log 50 - 53 - Insect Life Cycle Assessment 54 - 57 - Insect Life Cycle Assessment Answer Key 58 - Credits
When they return to the classroom have them record in Notes if they met their goal and what they learned about insect life cycles.
These tiny little insects live in the coat of the dog, burrowing into the skin and causing severe itching.
According to Stephanie Boone of Wondercide, her company's flea and tick control products work to kill the insect life cycle from egg to larvae and adults and are formulated to stop itching and scratching.
Created by US scientists, who have been trying to analyze trees without touching the plant, animal and insect life on top of the limbs and trunks, canopy tours appeared as the ideal alternative.
Twitchers will love the coastal mangroves around Tortuguero, a huge national park comprising coast and jungle - fringed waterways teaming with bird and insect life.
This project looked at insect life cycles and agricultural systems, culminating in a «Living» sculpture constructed with live silkworms and the silk forms they spun.
«In my drawings and sculptural installations, lush, active plant and insect life sprawl unpredictably across the page or wall.
On the other hand, animal and insect life remains «red in tooth and claw» and of course there are regular aberrations within human societies.
Logged rainforests can support as much plant, animal and insect life as virgin forest within 15 years if properly managed, research at the University of Leeds has found.
What is even more frightening is how powerful this class of poison actually is: «The quantities required to destroy insect life are astonishingly small: by volume these poisons are 10,000 times as powerful as DDT.»
To a relentless assault on a U.S - size region rich in natural resources, but on which the planet's wellbeing depends for carbon sequestration, weather regulation, regional and global climate stability, and an array of plant, animal, bird and insect life found nowhere else.
Clear and maintain water features, and plant pond (oxygenating plants that live beneath the water) and marginal water plants (which provide food and habitat for animal and insect life, as well as providing colour and form to your pond or lake edge).

Not exact matches

Some blood - feeding insects, like lice and fleas, live on or near their hosts.
If there's one thing the city can guarantee, it's that there will be plenty of opportunities for new experiences to add to your life story: eat some insects from the Sunday Night Market, speak about life with a monk, watch some muay thai.
«Also, there are no birds, squirrels, insects or any other living creature indigenous to planet earth at the Masters.
With brilliant photographs of every imaginable type of creature — mammals and marine life, insects and birds — this book nearly has them all.
A Kickstarter project promises a remote control to control live insects (the RoboRoach).
Well it is true that some people seek sorcerers to implement Jinn that are satanic demons into mankind or his house or his business to finish him or make his life miserable or to stop flow of his business income... In such case it is either you are religious enough and say your prayers often then it becomes hard for this to harm you or otherwise you need to find some one who practice exorcism to remove this evil... But many are just pretending to be good at it and help you not but squeeze money out of you with tales and stories... There is another type of possessions and that is not through a sorcerer but directly by coincidence what man is at his weakest moments and those weakest moments for a possessions are when you come through a great fear or when cry or laugh loudly in hysteria, or during a certain moment of mating... or even when sneezing loudly... That's why there are prayers to be said on daily basis to guard you from such things and specially if passing haunted places such as deserted houses but most evil ones are residents of public toilets and market places... Some of them even would claim that you have made a wrong action by which you have killed a dear one to them and for that they have possessed you and that is mostly night time such as throwing a cigaret butt to a dark place or stepping killing an insect or even an animal at night which could have been one of them or possessed by one of them... So this is true thing happening to many who suffer unexplainable illnesses or sufferings which could look like mental illness that comes and goes as pleased...
You say the Bible is full of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.
I believe in many heavens being upon the insides all life's forms even insects to mammals and fishes and any other life forms even the plants.
«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»
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