Sentences with phrase «of tiny insects»

The idea of tiny insects feeding on the blood of your cat may make you shudder, but fleas are a very common problem.

The vet will be able to to check the presence of these tiny insects under the microscope.

Every summer the larvae of a tiny insect known as the European corn borer (right) wreak havoc on American corn crops, costing farmers nearly a billion dollars annually.

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Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

They do not even like it that their children gets dirty or gets bitten by a tiny insect, what more if they see their poor child suffering from pain because of an illness?

The flat, wingless insects are tiny (between one and two millimeters long — less than a tenth of an inch), suck on human blood, and cement their eggs, or nits, to our hair.

A new dye industry finally arose in the late Middle Ages, allowing Catholic cardinals to cloak themselves in scarlet drawn from the shells of tiny kermes insects and tapestry makers to weave with vivid reds from dyewood trees native to India and Brazil.

James Cook University researchers in Australia are creating a buzz in bee research, gluing tiny transmitters to the backs of the insects for the first time.

By sticking tiny cannons on the backs of cockroaches to see how their recoil jars the insects» balance, researchers have added firepower to a new mathematical model that explains how roaches move so nimbly.

With tiny brains and force of numbers, social insects have achieved most of the things we consider quintessentially human — farming, warfare, air conditioning — and have taken over the world.

The tiny insects perceive this wide range of chemical cues through a diverse set of olfactory sensory neurons along their antennae.

Tiny red fire ants in Argentina target fearsome caimans, with as many as one in four of the crocodilian's babies falling prey to insect attackers.

By watching videos of caterpillars at 300 frames per second (above), researchers identified how the tiny insects» uncoupled muscles fire it into a somersault to escape an annoying poke.

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.

To find out if the cockroaches had personalities, Planas - Sitjà and his colleagues glued tiny radio frequency identification chips to the thoraxes of 304 roaches so that they could track each insect after it was placed in a new environment.

Elegant, dainty, and deadly, it is the most common of all blood - sucking arthropods and the most important insect carrier of human disease, transmitting not only malaria but also yellow fever, dengue, West Nile virus, encephalitis, and the tiny worms that cause elephantiasis.

«Biologists peek into the past to see the future through tiny spider eyes: Biologists look to the past for early genetic development of tiny spider and insect eyes to find potential for research into human visual challenges.»

When bats echolocate, they emit rapid - fire, high - frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night - flying insects.

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

For the experiments, UF and USDA researchers brought two types of thrips — tiny insects that often feed on plants — from Brazil to Florida laboratories.

They form a functional complex with another protein, the so - called olfactory receptor co-receptor, which enables insects to smell the tiniest amounts of odor molecules in their environment very rapidly.

So far, Wynne has discovered seven species of springtail, tiny insects whose defining feature is a spring - loaded tail that flips them into the air and away from danger — a built - in ejector seat.

The result was Spinybot, which could ascend rough surfaces like trees and cement walls with the aid of microclaws tipped with tiny spines, a mechanism borrowed from insects like the cockroach.

Mycobacterium ulcerans, the bacteria that cause Buruli skin lesions and bone deformities, can thrive in a wide range of wild creatures, especially tiny insects grazing on freshwater algae, says Aaron Morris, now at Imperial College London.

That insects «have an idea of where they want to go to, when they want to go, and what winds are good [is] surprising for these tiny creatures,» Bauer says.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

This deposit is famous for its intricate fossil preservation, and the moth specimen was so exquisite that Yale University paleontologist Maria McNamara and colleagues were able to zoom in on the insect's wings to detect the fine details of tiny scales.

Anyone who has tried to swat an insect can attest to how difficult it is to make contact with such elusive targets, but dragonflies, in spite of their tiny brains, have mastered the art.

Dunatothrips aneurae (pictured) build a tiny house made of the phyllodes (leaflike structures) of acacia trees, glued together by a silklike secretion extruded from the insect's anus.

Given the tiny insect from northeastern Gabon is the first record of its genus for West - Central Africa, the researchers Dr. Stefania Laudonia and Dr. Gennaro Viggiani, both affiliated with Italy's University of Naples Federico II, decided to celebrate it by assigning the species a name that refers to the continent.

California's lousy vintage: Tiny insects wrecked the vineyards of Europe and South Africa a century ago.

In 15 years he has led 170 expeditions and documented more than 500 previously unknown species of creatures, including Microgale nasoloi, a tiny hedgehog - like tenrec that feeds on insects and scurries about the forest floor; Heteroscorpion magnus, a giant scorpion that hides in rock crevices in the northeastern part of the island; and Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi, a tiny, sparrowlike warbler that lives high in the forest canopy.

So in this issue Hanson follows that through to a conclusion coming up with tiny insect - like robots with greater than human level intelligence living by the billions in skyscrapers and sort of doing their virtual work at the equivalent of pennies per day and what this leads to, there are two different ideas about what this kind of economic runaway advancement would ultimately lead to.

Karin Nordström's group from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Flinders University, Australia, and Shannon Olsson's team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, have long been interested in how insects, with their «teeny - tiny» brains can recognize objects such as flowers.

The Trichogrammatidae are a family of tiny wasps in the Chalcidoidea that include some of the smallest of all insects, with most species having adults less than 1 mm in length.

The bacteria that causes HLB is carried by the Asian citrus psyllid, a tiny insect that feeds on leaves and stems of infected citrus trees, then carries the bacteria to healthy trees.

By unfurling their wide - tipped tongues and releasing their natural glue, chameleons have the luxury of being able to pick from a wide selection of prey ranging from tiny insects to the occasional bird, lizard, or mammal.

High levels of male - male courtship are widespread in many fly species, but not in Drosophila melanogaster, the tiny insect that has been a mainstay of genetic research for more than a century.

The reflections came from tiny bits of insects the bats had eaten.

The estimated 4,400 miles or more traveled by members of this tiny species smashes the previous record for insect migration of 2,500 miles, held by monarch butterflies.

The Dixie National Forest bears one of the most obvious signs in Utah of the mark being left by a tiny tree predator commonly known as the bark beetle, a wood - boring insect that in large enough numbers can decimate an entire forest.

It's tiny particles are very sharp, but not harmful to human tissue, though they break down the exoskeleton of insects.

The question for you is can you propose a diet for these humans where they were able to get more than a tiny fraction of their daily calories from meat, eggs or insects that don't have fiber and still eat enough plant foods to get 100 grams a day

Hundreds of tiny winged insects invade this poor lady's car, and right before the scene ends we see the dark druid, or the Darach, in the back seat.

Summary: A pair of nascent lovers believe themselves to be the victim of government experiments involving tiny insects injected into their systems.

But anyone with a camera can go record tiny insects at work, wind blowing in trees, and any other element of nature to inspire similar not - particularly - profound feelings.

Swarm Of Mindless Robots Works Together «Very tiny pseudo insects that... can unite to form a superordinate system.»

These tiny dark brown insects prefer temperatures of 65 - 80 degrees and humidity levels of 75 - 85 %, so for some areas of the country they are considerably more than just a problem of the summer months.

These tiny little insects live in the coat of the dog, burrowing into the skin and causing severe itching.

With a life span ranging from only a few weeks to a few months, these tiny insects can do a lot of damage.