Sentences with phrase «larvae also»

The larvae also become sexually mature and produce microfilariae of their own, which are available in the dog's blood to other mosquitoes.

These larvae also are commonly used as a food for pets and some lab animals, including chickens and fish.

The larvae also could more easily make new tunnels in food that had already been burrowed.

Finally, we measured the duration of the L3 as a proxy of the duration of the feeding period in those animals, since when growth rate is reduced due to reduced IIS activity, larvae also extend the duration of the feeding period [12,27,28].

Infected aphids that rejected a wasp larvae also produced more offspring as adults than uninfected aphids that rejected a wasp larvae.

The fly larvae also occasionally dine on the fungus.

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All of the released mosquitoes would be male, and when they mate with native females their offspring would also die without tetracycline while they are still larvae or pupae.

Significant technical limitations inhibit the more rapid expansion of organic aquaculture, especially access to organic food sources, but also production of larvae, protection from parasites such as sea - lice and removal of competition from unwanted species in open cages.

This is a really effective formula that kills not only fleas but also their eggs and larvae.

Disrupting a population could also produce ripple effects in other corners of the ecosystem, for example taking a food source from aquatic predators that feed on mosquito larvae.

The tiny swimming larvae of these sea creatures, also known as moss animals, may live up to a week, long enough to settle in to a new habitat.

Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers.

The team also found that N - methyl -2-pyrrolidone (NMP)-- an inert, or inactive, chemical commonly used as a pesticide additive — is highly toxic to honeybee larvae.

The researchers also investigated the effects of NMP on honeybee larvae by adding seven concentrations of the chemical to a pollen - derived, royal jelly diet.

They also performed DNA analyses of water samples to identify larvae of vent animals and stable - isotope analysis to assess food supplies at each vent field.

Toxic versions of the fungus also grew more when the bugs were around than when they weren't, the researchers report today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. And the fungus made more toxins when larvae were around than when they weren't.

Study co-author Federica Bertocchini, a biologist at Spain's Institute of Biomedicine & Biotechnology of Cantabria, says the larvae's ability to break down their dietary staple — beeswax — also allows them to degrade plastic.

As the predator cues of the backswimmer also have an impact on their targets» immune system, the cocktail weakens the mosquitoes and larvae that it fails to kill.

Why, then, shouldn't metamorphosis also change the animal's personality, so that strengths in larvae don't become flaws in adults?

Since the plant responds to injury by surrounding the wound with protective cells that also happen to be highly nutritious, the larvae trick their host into providing them with a choice meal.

In addition to the fungicidal fungi, scientists have also seen small bugs laying their eggs in the infected ant corpse, where their larvae can then eat the growing fungus.

Along the way, the researchers also kept an eye on ticks, as white - footed mice are a reservoir of the Lyme disease spirochete, which they transmit to tick larvae.

The sluggish pace of these «floating islands» may also have made it easier for some species to reproduce and for their larvae to attach to the debris.

At the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Perry is also assessing the damage by collecting, identifying and measuring larvae and juveniles of various species and recording their numbers.

While miRNAs are generally negative regulators of gene expression in eukaryotes, they also negatively regulate larval development when honeybee larvae consume beebread / pollen and take up plant miRNAs.

Generally this refers to the consumption and digestion of the seed, but also includes the parasitization of seeds by insect larvae.

Sunny weather also increases the likelihood of finding tasty weevil larvae — which infest unripe fruit and develop faster when temperatures are higher.

Scientists also found larvae of unusual species such as Pacific pompano, which normally spawns in the southern California Current in the spring and summer.

In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

The study results also suggest that some fungicides, which have led to the mortality of honey bee larvae in lab studies, could have toxic effects on colony survival in the field.

The OIST Marine Biophysics Unit to which Dr. Nakamura belongs also studies ocean currents, which have considerable impact on the spread of benthic larvae.

They start begging more if one of the parents (more often the male) abandons them, and they also beg more if there are many larvae in the brood.

Oysters — sedentary organisms particularly susceptible to harm from oil and dispersant exposure — were also directly affected, with decreased recruitment of oyster larvae throughout the northern Gulf in 2010, 2011 and the fall of 2012.

We can also develop and test mutant strains of Cryptococcus in these larvae.

The larvae are also permeable to small molecules, which will allow scientists to batch - test different drug compounds against the infection relatively quickly and easily, said co-author David Tobin, Ph.D., assistant professor in molecular genetics and microbiology and immunology at Duke.

We also fed the predators in these compartments with larvae so that they produced chemical signals indicative of predation which could be detected by the larvae in the experiment,» Orizaola explains.

They also are used for more routine tasks, such as digging nests or tending to eggs and larvae.

Each tiny, free - swimming larva — also known as a planula — heads off and installs itself on a rock, which is carefully selected to allow it to hang head - down in the shade, and develops into a polyp.

When the caterpillars emerged from their cocoons as moths, they also avoided the odors, showing that they had learned their larva lesson.

A previous study (doi: 10.1021 / es504038a) has shown that Plodia interpunctella wax worms, the larvae of dian mealmoths, can also digest plastic.

Larvae that had to cope with less nutrients also survived and were able to heal their injuries, but were unable to fully regenerate their bodies.

These bodies in turn attract meat eaters like spiders, which also consume the moth larvae while they're noshing.

Nurse bees feed larvae destined to be workers not only royal jelly, which queen - destined larvae are fed, but also beebread, or processed pollen (seen here).

Bird nests are home not only to the bird parents and their offspring but also to other inhabitants, such as insect larvae, which take advantage of the favorable climatic conditions and abundant supply of food in the nests.

They also have been seen making piles of mushroom bits in their dens, chewing the pieces into a kind of fermented paste for both workers and larvae.

Concerned over the long - term effects Elin Sørhus has investigated the short term effects of oil pollution on haddock roe and larva, but there are indications that the long - term effects also are very serious.

Have detected the mechanism behind the injuries Elin Sørhus has also conducted thorough studies of the genetics and the molecular biology behind the haddock larvae's injuries.

Yet they also found miticide - treated hives had more honeycomb cells devoted to larva than untreated hives.

The larvae can also enter the eyes, however, causing blindness.

Larvae of Acropora digitifera was used in the study because it is a common species around Okinawan coral reefs and also the most commonly used species in studies on the effects of acidified seawater on several early life stages in coral.