Sentences with phrase «nonbiting midges»

It was formed, from the word midge «small fly» + - et, so that a midget is etymologically a «very small small fly».

Where does the word midge come from?

It was effectively tied by Buck O'Brien in 1911, except Chamberlain's ERA was rounded up from 0.375, and O'Brien's was 0.378, which is just a midge higher.

Visible bites are the most obvious sign of bed bug infestation, but unless you suffer an allergic reaction, you will likely attribute the bites to midges, mosquitoes, or even fleas.

The warm, wet weather is leading to the proliferation of the pesky insect known as a «midge» Thursday morning.

So far, researchers haven't even demonstrated that there's an odor luring in the midges.

The flower offers no nectar for the midges to collect.

Instead, flies not much bigger than a poppy seed, in the biting midge subfamily Forcipomyiinae, crawl up into the hoods and do — something.

Model of the 54 million - year - old biting midge: the vesicular structure is easy to see at the front edge of the right wing.

Notably, for biting flies (midges in the genus Culicoides, some species of which are vectors of wildlife disease), 80 percent were attracted to the filament lamp, 15 percent to the compact fluorescent and only 2 - 3 percent to each of the two different LED lamps.

«It is noticeable that the pheromone evaporators in the fossil are much more complex than in present - day biting midges,» says Prof. Jes Rust, who supervised the dissertation by Frauke Stebner.

The cube housed millipedes (some coiled so tightly in defensive postures that they're impossible to pick up), beetles, seeds, spiders, weevils, midges, leaves, and springtails (insects.04 to 0.2 inch long that catapult themselves over enormous distances).

Following extensive literature research, the scientists are certain: a biting midge with this kind of wing structure has never been described before.

New research by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed that domestic LED lights are much less attractive to nuisance insects such as biting midges than traditional filament lamps.

Present - day biting midges use attractants for their «blind dates» — however, they do not distribute the substances from their wings but instead from their abdomen.

Everyone is familiar with the tiny midges that pounce on you in swarms in a forest or in meadows and whose bites are incredibly painful.

Today's biting midges use significantly simpler attractant evaporators structures for pheromone release on their abdomen.

«Old» doesn't always have to mean «primitive»: paleontologists at the University of Bonn have discovered a tiny biting midge no larger than one millimeter in 54 million - year - old amber.

These bugs include specialized gall midges (in the Cecidomyiidae family) and a species that appears to be new to science, Hughes says.

Poinar suggested in the journal American Entomologist that the origins of this deadly disease, which today can infect animals ranging from humans and other mammals to birds and reptiles, may have begun in an insect such as the biting midge more than 100 million years ago.

Andy Reynolds from Rothamsted Research, UK, and colleagues at Stanford University, California, USA, modelled the effect of the attraction force, which resembles Newton's gravity force, acting towards the centre of a midge swarm to give cohesion to their group movement.

The only creatures found in every home were ants, carpet beetles, cobweb spiders and gall midges.

«Speed - dependent attraction governs what goes on at the heart of midge swarms: New study reveals swarm cohesion stems from an adaptive behavior, where the faster individual midges fly, the stronger the gravitational - like force they experience.»

Instead of building a model describing the microscale movement of individuals and confronting it with experimental data, the authors built a model of swarm behaviour that is consistent with experimental observations, in terms of swarm density, of individual midges» speed and acceleration.

Biologists have used Bookstein's methods to study a whole bestiary of animals: bats, fishes, midges, mice, coral, shrews, and even pinworms.

The team then used standard methods to date the layers and identify the species of algae and invertebrates, such as water fleas and midges, that inhabited the cold Arctic lakes.

Bluetongue virus, a ruminant virus spread by midges that was once confined to tropical areas, has reached as far as Norway.

Wotton started thinking about the importance of insect migration after 2011, when windblown midges carried an exotic virus into the southern United Kingdom that caused birth defects in cattle on his family's farm.

«Orange blossom midge has become a problem at this time of year on wheat, but 15 years ago, we had never heard of it.

It has survived another winter in northern Europe, and now farmers are vaccinating livestock in a race against the biting midges that carry the virus.

The mini-genome may be the result of strong natural selection that has helped the midge survive in the harsh cold (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms5611).

But these viruses seem to be dependent on midges to infect humans and are not known to be directly transmitted from infected farm animals.

Ants, spiders, carpet beetles and gall midges — otherwise known as gall gnats — were found in every single residence, and all but one contained book lice, which Trautwein describes as «cute» and «the friendly cousins of parasitic head lice.»

Midges are less likely to bite humans than mosquitoes, and there have been no reports of unusual human illnesses from farmers whose livestock is infected.

Trautwein likened such herbivores as gall midges and leafhoppers to «ill - fated tourists» that get lured in by light or shelter only to find that there's nothing to eat.

The virus appears to be transmitted by midges (Culicoides spp.), and infections likely occurred in summer and autumn of last year, but fetuses that were exposed to the virus in the womb are only now being born.

These viruses consist of three segments called S (short), M (middle), and L (long) and are mainly transmitted by mosquitoes and midges.

They create snares of mucus to trap midges, and their glowing tail is to lure their prey into the sticky trap.

The biting midge Culicoides (Trithecoides) anophelis Edwards is a predator of engorged mosquitoes, which was first described by Edwards in 1922 [1].

The breadth of the collections allows studies that require lots of samples, such as Steve Brooks» «midge thermometer».

We evaluate natural enemies as primary agents of diversifying selection on the phenotypes of an actively diverging lineage of gall midges on tall goldenrod.

Early studies of chironomids, a group of mosquito - like midges, found that ultraviolet light or RNAse targeted toward the front portion of embryos led to double - abdomen formation (two tail ends and no head), which suggested that localized RNA in the anterior egg might function as head determinant.

Through field studies, we show that fungal gall morphology, which is induced by midges (i.e., it is an extended phenotype) is under directional and diversifying selection by parasitoid enemies.

Food resources, in this system, are not limiting and there is little or no direct competition among the midges.

In this system, the gall of the midge consists of a biotrophic fungal symbiont that develops on host - plant leaves and forms distinctly variable protective carapaces over midge larvae.

These results imply that predators are driving the evolution of phenotypic diversity in symbiotic defense traits in this system, and that divergence in defensive morphology may provide ecological opportunities that help to fuel the adaptive radiation of this genus of midges on goldenrods.

They identified a gene, found only in one specific group of midge flies, which determines the patterning of the head and tail in developing embryos.

Even more interesting is that natural selection by these parasitic wasps on gall form is ongoing and still very strong, providing both a window into past processes of diversification and a divination of future adaptive diversification in this gall midge lineage.

The gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) forms fungal galls on the leaves of tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima).

A researcher has recently published a description of eight new non-biting midge species, but has found many more.