Sentences with word «lacewing»

Male leopard lacewings sport flashy orange designs, which may signal to females that for such a conspicuous target to still be alive, he must have good genes.
Chinese paleontologists reported a new lacewing species that can mimic liverworts, which is a rare camouflage in both modern and fossil ecosystems.
The leopard lacewing exhibits sexual dimorphism, which means that females aren't nearly as showy.
Although thin and transparent, the tents are strong enough to protect the nymphs from predatory lacewing larvae, says Fletcher (Australian Journal of Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00813.x).
They likewise came across carrion - feeding flesh flies emerging from a dead rodent, two nearly microscopic hermit crabs trapped dozens of kilometers from the closest seashore and a larval - stage beaded lacewing, which immobilizes termites with a chemical released from its anus before eating them.
Romeis J, Dutton A and Bigler F (2004) Bacillus thuringiensis toxin (Cry1Ab) has no direct effect on larvae of the green lacewing Chrysoperla carnea (Stephens)(Neuroptera: Chrysopidae).
CryIAb Poses Negligible Risk for Lacewing Predator.
«Poor preservation of lacewing fossils had always stymied attempts to conduct a detailed morphological and ecological examination of the kalligrammatid,» says paleobotanist David Dilcher, a co-author on the study that identifies the insects.
The notion that the moth mouthparts arose before a big floral takeover sounds plausible to paleoecologist Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Drinking - straw mouthparts had evolved in at least three other big insect groups (dipteran flies, lacewings and scorpionflies) somewhat before the full floral evolutionary extravaganza.
Wu and his colleagues determined that reduced spraying resulted in less collateral damage to other insect species, particularly beneficial predators like spiders, ladybugs, and lacewings.
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.
Researchers grew three flower species — borage (pictured above), common comfrey, and cornflower — that farmers use to attract predatory and parasitic insects, including wasps, flies, lady beetles, and lacewings.
Published in Nature, it showed a halving of the use of pesticides while the level of beneficial insects such as ladybirds and lacewings had doubled.
Nov. 1, 2014: Indianapolis Writing Conference Indianapolis, IN Attending agents to pitch: Jen Karsbeak (Fuse / Foreword Literary); Laura Crockett (Triada US); Whitley Abell (Inklings Literary); and Andrew Scott (editor, Lacewing / Engine Books).
Lacewings are great to have around your Palm trees because they like to feed on those irritating red palm mites, too.
Neuroptera: Lacewings and antlions 15.
Being free from pesticide use, the winery makes use of many fighter bugs like ladybugs and lacewings.
And among those fossils were a number of extinct «lacewing» insects of the genus kalligrammatid — what scientists are calling Jurassic «butterflies.»
Lacewing and Pagoda have been given a luxurious finish on velvet.
Birds and predator insects like ladybugs, lacewings and praying mantises will take care of pests.
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