Sentences with phrase «of dead insects»

In some populations of these European arachnids, females won't mate with males unless the suitors present a gift of dead insects wrapped in silk.

Plus, the bug zapper has a collection tray at its base that is removable and washable to keep the mess of dead insects contained!

Not exact matches

Oils will usually suffocate the insect but if you suspect the insect is already dead, you can try pouring a small amount of warm water into the ear canal to flush it out, according to Stanford Children's Health.

In the main reception area, on the ceiling, were piles of cobwebs with dead (and decaying) insects in them.

Dead wood harbors insects and disease and may cause the vine to rot, to say nothing of being unproductive and unsightly.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

1) FOSSIL RECORD: made of not only bone to stone fossils, but also amber, dehydrated corpses, footprints in mud / ash to stone fossils, leaf and insect imprints in various forms of stone, along with many other forms of preservation of dead animal / plant life from times long ago.

In March 2000, after two Lawndale Community Academy 4th graders vomited their lunch of turkey sandwiches and bananas, an inspector visited the kitchen and found dead water bugs, improperly exposed insect poison, rusted racks in the walk - in cooler, dirty floors, and food held at an unsafe temperature on the serving line.

Insects bind together nearly every ecosystem by pollinating 80 percent of food plants and recycling dead organic matter.

A safety gutter fully surrounds the electric grid, and a tray attached to the base of the bug zapper collects dead insects.

A native of rural Elmira Heights, New York, Wood became fascinated with forest insects when he noticed dead elms killed by a scourge of beetle - borne disease in his hometown.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

Jaenicke's 15 - year study found that more than a billion tons of bioaerosols — bits of proteins and cells, animal fur, dandruff, dead plants, and insects — are sloughed off into the atmosphere every year, an amount about 20 times greater than previously estimated.

The carpet beetles and book lice do much of the clearing up, scavenging dead insects, moulds and algae, as well as polishing off food crumbs and detritus from our own bodies, including nail clippings, hair and dead skin.

Following the asteroid hit, most of the plants and animals would have died, so the survivors probably fed on insects eating dead plants and animals.

Pitted dates, for example, are condemned only if 5 percent or more of each batch are contaminated by dead insects or their excreta.

Ants are also, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson, the premier turners of soil in the world, the chief predators of other insects, and the principal scavengers of small dead animals — all activities that ultimately benefit humans.

Dead or Alive Museum of Arts and Design, New York City Insects, chickens, and cows get a second life in this exhibit, but it's a life very different from their first.

Edging slowly toward a female, male nursery web spiders clutch in front of their bodies their version of courtship candy: a big dead insect wrapped in white silk.

The insects» strange genitals may be a by - product of where they live: barren caves with little food except dead bats and bat guano.

«The probable reason for this is that plenty of dead wood remains in place even after stem wood has been removed» the insect expert explains.

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.

The researchers placed varying numbers of live or dead stink bugs on grapes and measured the release of insect stress compounds as wine was produced from the fruits.

The researchers think the tools could have been used for breaking open nuts or tubers, bashing open dead logs to get at insects inside, or maybe something not yet thought of.

The adventurers made landfall and were able to take some photographs, including one of a recently dead Lord Howe Island stick insect.

The team thinks the tools could have been used for breaking open nuts or tubers, bashing open dead logs to get at insects inside, or something not yet thought of.

When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Lead author Sonia Harmand of the Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University and her team think that the tools could have been used for breaking open nuts or tubers, for bashing open dead logs to get at insects inside, and for other purposes.

Insects wriggling around on trees, predatory animals feeding on dead animals, and flowers blooming and withering also act as a recurring visual motif of the evolution of life.

Stories feature Crop circles and alien visitors Plasticized museum bodies A dead baby and a guest appearance from the protagonist of Mail Insect hunting with a ridiculous American exchange student who dresses like a stripper A ghost village A mummification service Working as professional mourners A -LSB-...]

Dead birds, manure, dog food, cups of tea, human food, bones, insects, grout, dirt... you name it.

Using the exact same designs for each insect type also was a problem as it makes it very difficult to tell if you are shooting an insect that is dead or alive, especially when facing hordes of giant ants.

For the exhibition, Filomeno enlists some of his regular characters — insects, dead philosophers, grotesque objects — and incorporates elements previously unseen in his works.

Among these will be «The Floor I (Studio - floor from Mosfellsbaer, Iceland)» from 1973 to 1992; a series of wall - mounted works form the 1980s comprised of such at - hand materials as toys, sweets, tools, refuse, and dead insects in plastic tubes; and key works from the «Tischtücher» series of paintings made in the late 1980s and early 1990s from used tablecloths.

Adams makes use of the tradition of Vanitas paintings to create delicate, symbolic images featuring found animal carcasses, dead insects and flora.

Insects, Feathers, Antlers, Shells, and Bones Given New Life as Unforgettable Works of Arts in Dead or Alive at MAD...

When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Most ominously, the combination of dead trees, insect infestation and fire on forest ecosystems will likely release carbon — perhaps more, in some places, than forests store.

- Population reduction control - Destruction of millions of forest acreage - Destruction of millions of farmland acreage - Creation of massive droughts & wildfires - creation of Mega-GigaTons of CO2 from dead & dying vegetations - promotion of massive health issues, including «death» for humans, animals, birds, bees, insects, all ocean life, all life forms.

That has triggered a variety of activities aimed at reducing the spread of insects infesting drought - weakened and standing dead trees, which are vulnerable to fire.

Sure, dead insects are everywhere — and chances are you've had a hand in a few of those casualties — but even if we just pretend to care about their humble little lives a moment longer, in a way it becomes hard not to.

It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.»

Recently, we've seen how designers have been creating new kinds of biologically inspired products, from jewelry built by larvae, to countertop incubators that cultivate insects for human consumption, to dead beetle bioplastic.

Start by having your trees pruned and evaluated regularly for signs of dead wood, insect damage and other problems.