Sentences with phrase «of small insects»

«The movement of small insects in the convective boundary layer: linking patterns to processes.»

The fossil bird's stomach contents also contained a few bits of small insects.

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.

If there are 90 % insects, and we consider them to be all very small, (which we know they are not), we could say that each pair, in order to fit on the «ARK» would need 4 square inches for two of them, plus their food for more than 40 days (Actually I think it was about a year, but we will go with about 40 days just to give the bible thumpers a chance, it supposably rained for 40 days).

Topher, I can certainly prove that Bats aren't birds, rabbits don't chew cud, insects don't have 4 legs, the mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds, there is no firmament, and that the earth was not formed before the sun.

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

But we have to set against this the fascination of the small, so that in itself, the size of insects doesn't explain much about human attitudes toward them.

I made the muffins «mini» due to the small amounts of edible insects that I was sent by Marx Pantry.

Insects and algae are currently smaller markets but growing rapidly as Asian and African markets seek more sustainable sources of protein.

While wintering in coffee farms, Black - throated Blue Warblers consume primarily small insects, many of which are coffee pests.

Finally, we analyse date labels on packaging, look at insects as a source of sustainable food production and speak to small farmers about cocoa crops and production.

Franz is extreme in his practices of fostering a diverse life of insects, small animals, and other organisms even in the world -LSB-...]

Earth & Skye Farm is a small CSA farm and an adventure in growing vibrant, healthy food and soil while exploring the spiritual and creative dimensions of farming; providing space to experience and honor the rhythms of seasonality in plant, insect and human life.

They helped their children notice birds, insects, plants and other wonders of the natural world when they were small, and then continued this focus even when the children decided, for a few years, to go to the local primary school.

It is most common in children under the age of 6 and begins when bacteria get into the skin after a small break in the skin like a scratch or insect bites.

The curious phenomenon of the cicada's periodical life cycle is the subject of much debate among scientists, who are limited to no small extent by the infrequency of the insect's visits to the surface.

One is a mouse - size marsupial that eats nothing but nectar, pollen, and small insects — the ecological equivalent of a flightless hummingbird.

Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.

The resulting tangled networks provided protective habitats for small animals, hundreds of insects, and smaller plants, which nestled themselves atop the beds of Pecopteris roots in their never - ending search for the sun.

Though an able flyer, it is one of only two species known to hunt exclusively on the ground, snatching up insects, small mammals, and reptiles with its sharp beak or stomping them to death with its strong feet.

The Vicon system uses infrared cameras to record the movement of 17 small reflectors (markers), which are attached to exoskeleton of the stick insect.

Light - emitting diode (LED) streetlights often draw moths and other insects into small areas at night, setting a buffet for nocturnal predators, but certain aspects of the lights themselves might be rendering insects vulnerable in even more sinister ways, new research suggests.

So far, the members of the 31st insect order, dubbed Mantophasmatodea, fall into two genera and three species, making this the smallest insect order on record.

A kind of symbiotic bacteria found in pea aphids (smaller ovals) help the insects resist parasitic wasps.

All blood - sucking insects have small arsenals of chemicals in their saliva — including blood vessel dilators and anticlotting agents — that help them guzzle blood.

Insects have not been considered as internal seed carriers before because due to the small size of their bodies and mandibles, it was thought that they chewed up the seeds.

The idea was that small amounts of these agents would be lethal to insects and harmless to people.

When an insect happens into the plant's trap zone, it triggers minuscule hairs that send a tiny electrical signal, causing small amounts of water to shift.

Lice are small insects about the size of a grain of rice that lay small whitish or brownish eggs called nits.

Animals equipped with these teeth can choose from a wide variety of foods — woody seeds, fruit, leaves, insects, or small animals.

A small oil pond could trap thousands of dragonflies when they are swarming, Horváth says, and nobody has studied yet what impact that would have on the insect population.

Ellis points out a clear example: the incredible number of species of insects, versus the relatively small number of species of mammals.

The old hypothesis hinged upon the fact that many of the early mammal fossils that had been found were from small, insect - eating animals — there didn't seem to be much in the way of diversity.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

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.

One of the notable differences in the characteristics of insect residues between coated and uncoated surfaces is the smaller area of the residue.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

And although many insect species are too small to be detected in Doppler radar data, researchers are finding new ways to extract the signals of insects and track their migrations as they happen.

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

While studying the insect collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, two American scientists uncovered a small, leaf - dwelling praying mantis with unique features collected from Madagascar in 2001.

«In fact, the miniature species are locally abundant and fairly common but they have probably been overlooked because of their extremely small size, secretive habitats and insect - like calls,» says Sonali Garg who undertook this study as part of her PhD research at University of Delhi.

The presence of bee - associated bacteria in bagged flowers suggests the bacteria may be transmitted to flowers via plant surfaces, the air or small insects, he said.

When the fish spot small insects on overhead branches and leaves, they spit a stream of water from their mouths that can dislodge that insect, causing it to fall onto the water's surface.

It was a piece of Albertonykus — a small, insect - eating dinosaur.

One day in the lab, Sweeney put two plants a few centimeters apart on the same Petri plate and made two small cuts on the leaf of one to simulate an insect's attack.

But when the scientists played the recorded vibrations into fresh blocks of identical size and offered them to a new group of termites, they discovered that the insects preferentially tunneled into samples with «small block» noises, even when the block was actually bigger.

«But even more striking is this insect filling the niche of small mammals.»

But despite their name most of these creatures are small and live quietly in silk - lined burrows, trapping nothing more impressive than the occasional insect.

Archerfish hunt by shooting jets of water at unsuspecting insects, spiders, or even small lizards on leaves or twigs above, knocking them into the water below before gobbling them up.

They were once thought to be exclusively small nocturnal insect - eaters, but fossil discoveries of the past decade — particularly from China and South America — have shown that they developed diverse adaptations for feeding and locomotion, including gliding, digging, and swimming.