Sentences with phrase «of dung beetles»

Belying the humble status of dung beetles — insects that burrow their broods in balls of animal excrement — Thater's video enlarges the beetles» scale and flips them skyward.

Different types of dung beetles have evolved diverse ways of eating, living in and laying their eggs in animal feces.

Byrne studies insects, particularly the behavior of dung beetles: how they cool down, walk, and navigate.

Of the dung beetles living in Northern Europe, most spend their entire lives within the dung pats.

«As expected, the overall number and diversity of dung beetles, dung flies and parasitoid wasps decreased as the ivermectin concentration increased,» explains Blanckenhorn.

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.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.

Simple science text and dramatic illustrations give a close - up view of the fascinating world of the dung beetle.

But we liked the look of a dung beetle attached to a ball, bouncing around.»

For her latest show at David Zwirner, «Science Fiction,» Thater — who will be receiving a survey at LACMA this fall — is presenting her most enveloping environment to date: «involving an enclosed video projection, ceiling screen, and light, as well as two new video walls,» the installation will be an operatic examination of the internal navigation system of the dung beetle, the only animal that guides itself by its relative position to the Milky Way.

Not exact matches

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

The biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles, focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.

With at least 58 % of the area of Mexico occupied with livestock farming, dung beetles are essential in cleaning up.

A group of animals that has woken up a special interest for studies in Mexico is the so - called «dung beetles».

Apart from the two new dung beetles, formally called Onthophagus clavijeroi and Onthophagus martinpierai, the present paper also provides theories about the current distributions of these insects across the Mexican mountains and their putative evolutive relationships.

These are the males of the new dung beetles Onthophagus clavijeroi (left) and Onthophagus martinpierai (right).

For context, the activity of almost 5,000 dung beetles from 53 species was recorded within the largest logging concession in the Brazilian Amazon, covering 544,000 hectares of native forest — an area 3.5 times that of London.

«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.

«Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical rainforests: Study looked at the impact of logging by examining its effect on forest dung beetles.»

We have also seen them as a source of inspiration: The Egyptians symbolized their sun god, Ra, as a great scarab beetle rolling the sun like a ball of dung across the heavens.

Scientists have even shown that dung beetles use the polarisation pattern of moonlight for orientation.

In a tour - de-force investigation of beetle breathing, scientists have discovered that dung beetles came up with an unexpected strategy: They breathe out of only one body opening while at rest.

Like all insects, dung beetles breathe through a set of tiny holes called spiracles.

Often thought of as nature's garbage collectors, the important ecosystem service offered by dung beetle helps recycle nutrients, reduces parasites, and can even help seeds germinate.

To give their young a start in life, female dung beetles — which have much larger horns than males — make balls of dung, called brood balls, from cowpats and bury them underground.

The life of a female dung beetle is highly competitive.

Nicola Watson and Leigh Simmons of the University of Western Australia, Perth, pitted female dung beetles (Onthophagus sagittarius) against each other in a race for dung — a valuable resource that provides nutrients for their eggs.

The toxicity of new livestock medications therefore needs to be verified in ecotoxicological tests with individual animal species such as the common yellow dung fly, the barn fly or a dung beetle.

Researchers studying plants, ants, birds, dung beetles and orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon have found clear evidence that deforestation causes drastic loss of tropical forest biodiversity.

Some members of the team were in on last year's Ig Nobel Prize — winning paper «Dung Beetles Use the Milky Way for Navigation,» which appeared in the journal Current Biology.

Dung beetles, too, contribute to the economy: without them, bovine dung festers on rangeland, increasing the number of pests and reducing the available forage for the catDung beetles, too, contribute to the economy: without them, bovine dung festers on rangeland, increasing the number of pests and reducing the available forage for the catdung festers on rangeland, increasing the number of pests and reducing the available forage for the cattle.

So they trapped airborne dung beetles in a Swaziland savanna by hanging up a transparent sheet and selected one individual from each of 10 species to dissect.

They've covered dung beetles, the lifesaving secrets of slime and the animal world's true vampires.

Birds of the Gods Available on DVD and Blu - ray You could have David Attenborough narrate a movie about dung beetles and it could almost trick you into thinking you were watching the most interesting film in the world.

Illustrated in ruddy, earth - toned illustrations, this collection of poems catalogs the animal residents of the African savanna, from the diminutive dung beetle to the massive elephant and titular wildebeest.

Or in this upscale neighborhood, watched various illegal aliens hustle like dung beetles back and forth across the thick St. Augustine lawns through scattershot swarms of gnats.

And lest you look down upon this lowly poop - eating insect, know that the dung beetle is the only member of the animal kingdom to master navigation by the starlight of the Milky Way.

Marvel at the sight of humpback whales as they spout and gambol close to the shoreline and experience a close - up encounter with Africa's spectacular wildlife, from the mighty elephant to the captivating dung beetle.

RPG's of this ilk usually have you reading text boxes forever and a day but here, your dung beetle guide Puku keeps things short, saying only what's necessary and delivers the occasional joke.

Often times in the deserts of the Wildspire Waste it may not seem odd to see a dung beetle or two strolling about, rolling a giant ball of dung about.

«The trailer showcases some of the abilities that newly appointed postmaster, Yoku the dung beetle, will discover as he flips and bumps around Mokumana island using a unique blend of pinball mechanics in his noble quest to save the island... and deliver the mail!

Yoku's Island Express has the unusual feature of combining open world exploration with pinball mechanics, thanks to the games dung beetle protagonist!

Yoku the dung beetle has arrived on Mokumana Island to take over the role of postmaster and he's ready for the easy life, soaking up the sun and delivering parcels on a tropical paradise!

Yoku the dung beetle has arrived on Mokumana Island to take over the role of postmaster and...

Players will take on the role of Yoku, a dung beetle who lands a job as a post master, and quickly finds himself on an adventure to save the island.

In the brief time I had with the game, I met a number of characters with tasks for my postman dung beetle.

Yoku's Island Express is a pinball - based platformer, based around the adventures of a postman dung beetle.

Sasamoto takes that shit bit to heart in her recent exhibition at SculptureCenter, Delicate Cycle, which likens human existence to the mound of excrement a dung beetle balls up and pushes around its entire life.

Long interested in the mysteries of the night sky and the natural world, internationally - recognized artist Diana Thater is fascinated by the dung beetle and its relationship to our galaxy.