Sentences with phrase «now by the beetle»

«A weaker defense system may also be why we are seeing a strong preference now by the beetle for whitebark pine over lodgepole pine, which has long been its preferred host.»

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Now this is a collection made by a lawyer called E. Y. Western who died in 1924, and he died leaving a collection — a private collection — of some 10 -LSB-, 000] or 12,000 beetles.

The morbid color, by now a staple of the Rockies, comes not from fire or some exotic disease but from an insect no larger than a grain of rice — the bark beetle.

Beetles are now wiping out trees, even whole forests, at an unprecedented pace; they ravaged 9.2 million acres of forest in the western United States in 2010, according to the Forest Service, three times as much as that destroyed by fire.

Now, research from Florida State University has illuminated the piecemeal patterns of recolonization among a hardy species of beetle regularly affected by these managed burns.

Beetles can skate across water by decreasing the surface tension - now tiny engines made from droplets, nanopowder and laser light are using the same trick

McAlister honed her interest by doing fieldwork during her undergraduate years: She spent several months working at the now - defunct Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Dorset, where she studied the effects of climate change on heather beetles.

One of the largest and most important groups of dung beetles in the world evolved from a single common ancestor and relationships among the various lineages are now known, according to new research by an entomologist from Western Kentucky University.

A team of researchers led by Ralph Bock at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, in Potsdam, Germany, now reports that it has found a way to protect crops from the Colorado potato beetle with a new insecticidal tool: RNA interference, or RNAi (Science 2015, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1261680).

Listed as of November • Ventura Marsh milk vetch (California) • White abalone (California) * • Ohlone tiger beetle (California) • Spalding's catchfly (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington) • Scaleshell mussel (Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, S. Dakota) • Holmgren milk vetch and Shivwitz milk vetch (Arizona, Utah) Delisted • Aleutian Canada goose (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington) emergency listings being processed now • Tumbling Creek cavesnail (Missouri) • Pygmy rabbit (Washington) • Carson wandering skipper (California, Nevada)(* listed by National Marine Fisheries Service)

I don't wear it often, but that might have to change now that I've scored this beetle - print shirt by Tory Burch.

If making wildfires more dangerous and reducing the amount of carbon that is safely stored in these forests wasn't worrisome enough, now Katie Valentine at Think Progress notes another of the myriad ripple effects caused by these beetles: BEAR ATTACKS!

However, even then, large forested areas can eventually be overwhelmed by sheer beetle numbers, as is now happening in many places.

Note: This is the first of two or more articles on the extensive tree mortality now being caused by bark beetles in western North America.