Sentences with phrase «larvae use»

Therefore, the larvae use more energy than they are able to gain from feeding.

Preferred habitat: coastal woods, edges of streams, river bottomlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous with red and yellow fall colors + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 6 to 10 feet + + + + Wildlife value: flowers attract many pollinators and birds eat the fruit; Henry's Elfin Butterfly larvae and Spring Azurre Butterfly larvae use leaves as food source

The little larvae use their light to lure insects into their fishing lines.

The wasp larvae use various means to gain access to the nest, but these always involve using a foraging adult ant worker for transport.

Cobia larvae used in this study were produced from broodstock raised at the UM Experimental Hatchery.

The larva uses the fungus as its food source, but as it feeds it causes the fungus to grow into several different forms, which the authors call morphotypes.

«It turns out we can produce significant numbers of developing larvae using the thawed sperm and that those larvae actually settle,» said Mary Hagedorn, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute.

Recombinant feline interferon - ω is produced in silkworm larvae using a baculovirus vector.

Not exact matches

Ideally when wild larvae are used, it is by a passive capture system, such as where coastal lagoons are opened for entry of larvae during the spawning season and closed for the remainder of the production cycle.

Early industry development is in many ways analogous to that of the organic poultry industry, in that conventional fingerlings or spat (mollusc larvae) can be brought in to start the operation, maximum density may be controlled and there is a five per cent allowance for conventional feed to allow high nutrient foods (mainly fish oil) to be used.

Baier's experiments used adult fish, whereas most zebrafish screens use larvae.

Some moths use fruit of trees they pollinate as food for their larvae, but one East Asian moth matures within the fruit right until adulthood

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.

Zebrafish are commonly used to model human diseases, in part because their larvae are transparent, making it easy to see the effects of genetic mutations or drugs.

We, therefore, concluded that ergosterol was in fact being used by the larvae to produce molting hormone, which reinforces the dependency between these bees and the fungus.»

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

A fly (Apocephalus borealis) had inserted its eggs into the bees, using their bodies as a home for its developing larvae.

Future projects using ribbed mussels for nutrient remediation will need spat or larvae from another location or from hatchery production.

Because they are so small, multiple testing methods are used, including cross-polarized light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and PCR testing of the DNA of larvae in the water sample.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

Zebrafish larvae a few days old are frequently used in toxicology tests — e.g. to study the behavioural effects of drugs — in order to avoid experiments in mammals.

Using yogurt cups, the researchers scooped up the larvae they found and raised them in a laboratory.

Meet the supersoldiers The species collected in New York, Pheidole morrisi, normally has two types of worker ants, according to Abouheif: minor workers, which are responsible for foraging, nursing, feeding eggs and larvae, and taking care of the queen; and soldier ants, which defend the nest and use their big mandibles to crack seeds harvested by the minor workers.

Using a novel combination of technologies, including trio exome sequencing of patient / parental DNA and genetic studies in the tiny larvae of zebrafish, the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium found that mutations in the gene CHD2 are responsible for a subset of epilepsy patients with symptoms similar to Dravet syndrome — a severe form of childhood epilepsy that is in many patients resistant to currently available anti-epileptic drugs.

The female uses its exceptional hearing to locate the songs of male crickets, where it deposits its larvae.

Then he came across a wasp that stung caterpillars and used them as food for its own larvae in its nest of loam.

In the case of CHD2, scientists collaborating with the EuroEPINOMICS RES consortium used antisense technology to rapidly generate zebrafish larvae with a partial loss of function of this gene, and were then able to detect epileptic seizures in these animals using electrographic analysis (this method is very similar to electroencephalography, or EEG, which is used to analyze seizures in humans).

They identified a total of 164 barnacle larvae under a dissection microscope, extracted DNA from the larvae, and used standard techniques to sequence mitochondrial COI genes, often called a barcode sequence.

So Thailand's agriculture department has decided on a bold experiment — importing P. manihoti's own worst nightmare, a two - millimeter - long wasp from South America that uses the pest as a host for its larvae, thereby destroying the bugs.

Although a range of trees grow in the region, they only used the Cape laurel (Cryptocarya woodii), which repels insects — including malarial mosquitoes — and their larvae.

An international team of scientists led by Newcastle University, UK, and funded by the US Office of Naval Research, have shown for the first time that barnacle larvae release an oily droplet to clear the water from surfaces before sticking down using a phosphoprotein adhesive.

The cylindrical bodies of the larvae are oriented head down, and they use two breathing tubes to stay oxygenated below the surface.

Knowing these larvae respond to odors but not fully understanding the process by which they make decisions via olfactory cues, scientists at UC Santa Barbara are using this model organism to study brain function as it relates to behavior control.

The new study led by University of Bristol researchers has used a state - of - the - art computer model to trace the journeys of coral larvae transported at the whim of these currents.

But that changed when the team left them a log filled with inaccessible beetle larvae that could only be retrieved using tools.

The experiments were performed using Drosophila larvae.

Dams prevent lampreys from reaching mating grounds, chemical lampricides wipe out larvae, and officials use traps to pull lampreys out of the environment and kill them.

Using particle image velocimetry to quantify and subtract local flow, the researchers then tested the hypothesis that larvae respond to turbulence by increasing swimming speed, and that the increase varies with ontogeny.

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

He rolled the larvae between his fingers, rubbing its skin against a stick he used as a pestle, and then extracted its tissue in one of his special tools — an old giraffe or kudu knuckle bone, where he could mix it with the rest of the ingredients.

They took samples from several environments including forests, farms, roadside ditches and even populated areas using carbon dioxide - baited light traps and vacuums to collect adults and buckets to collect larvae.

Using Fannia spp. fly larvae, he examined whether the waste - foraging co-inhabitants of bee - eater nests contribute to nest sanitation with a positive effect on nestling development.

«We have found that the larva of a common insect, Galleria mellonella, is able to biodegrade one of the toughest, most resilient, and most used plastics: polyethylene,» says Federica Bertocchini of the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria in Spain.

In outdoor tests, the most successful of four tiny parasitic wasp species released in North America did what they're supposed to: Tetrastichus planipennisi doomed some beetle larvae in ash trees by using the youngsters as living food for baby wasps.

For their study, the Max Planck researchers used genetically modified fish larvae, in which the targeted muscle cells of the heart chamber were destroyed by the administration of a substance.

Using a microscope, Kathirithamby videotaped Strepsiptera larvae burrowing into katydid hosts.

«We know that the larvae of certain crustaceans can use their antennae to both swim and gather food.

«Is she remembering how many eggs she has laid, can she sense how much sperm she has used, or is there some sort of chemosensory cue telling her how many drone larvae are in the cells?»

In parallel, we use high throughput sequencing methods to obtain both deep phylogenetic rDNA / rRNA tag data and metagenomic and metatranscriptomic functional profiles from size fractions covering the entire plankton community from viruses to fish larvae (Figure 2B and 2C).