Sentences with phrase «on beetle»

There are (at least) two direct temperature effects (and likely several other indirect ones) on beetle population processes.

A list of research on the effects of logging, fire suppression and natural cycles on beetle infestations can be found here.

Tiny droplets collect on the beetle's bumpy back.

Although it might put a damper on the beetle boom.

Designer Kitae Pak has created an award - winning biomimetic device based on the beetle's strategy.

The cocoon between its legs holds a parasitoid wasp larva, which fed on the beetle's insides before bursting from its belly.

-- subsisted mainly on beetle grubs found under the bark of dead or injured trees and succumbed in part to a post — Civil War fad for ladies» feathered hats.

«Ultra-white coating modelled on beetle scales.»

To determine the importance of forest composition on beetle movements, researchers identified areas that are comprised of pitch pine and those that feature pitch pine and oak.

Both had what looked like tiny barbed hairs stuck to their bodies — these hairlike structures are frequently found on beetle larvae that hung out in dinosaur nests.

This, the team hopes, can be done by improving the water yield of human - made dew condensers that mimick the nanostructure on the beetle's back.

«Since 2010, it's been impossible to transport them across state lines,» says Dan Bean, an insect physiologist who's worked on the beetle release program since it began and is now director of Colorado's Palisade Insectary.

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.

«Sexual conflict affects females more than males, says new research on beetles.»

A biologist gathers ancient DNA from bookworm holes in the Gospel of Luke, seeking details on the beetles that made the holes, and clues to where the book was made.

Among the most important is the warming climate, which is removing a natural control on beetles: deep winter freezes.

Not exact matches

Each wasp will zero in on a target by feeling out the vibrations the beetle larva causes as it roots through the tree.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

Oddly enough, insects in Japanese culture have led to other monetary ventures, avenues that are filled with intrigue, like beetle pet stores or manic collectors buying insects on the black market.

State officials on Monday reported a record 129 million dead trees across 8.9 million acres due to drought and bark beetles, posing the biggest wildfire hazard to the Sierra Nevada region in the northern part of the state.

In the Interior, the B.C. Liberals have taken no action on mitigating the pine beetle devastation and their inability to act quickly cost the province $ 1 billion in promised federal transition funds.

The beetle survives by collecting condensation from the ocean breeze on the hardened shell of its wings.

While you're at it explain ANY of Noah and how Polar Bears and Elephants coexisted on 1 400 foot wooden arch and how even two of each of the 150,000 species of BEETLE made it onboard and oh what they all ate when the waters receded.

And since you nutters claim that Noah would have one «kind» of beetle on the boat, that means that a brand new species of beetle had to evolve every 5 days for the past 4,000 years!

Yes now she can babble mindlessly about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....

Every situation in which the Word of God is declared in preaching is a place and a moment on the riverbank; and the permeability of that time and place to the declared Word is bound up with the forests, the birds, the beetles, and the waters of history.

The shops and houses at the river bank are flooded in the spring because the beetles on the far hills had an uninterrupted cycle of life.

If these beetles do primarily feed on slime mold, I'd say the taxonomist that named them really did think about the etymology of the binomen before naming them.

For example, the Colorado potato beetle will feed on pepper, but it generally prefers the other Solanaceous vegetables, particularly potatoes and eggplants.

So on December 13, just four days before National Maple Syrup Day on December 17, the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association and Vermont state officials hosted a special pancake and maple syrup breakfast to thank partners for supporting the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) eradication program in Massachusetts.

One study suggests arthropod diversity alone — wasps, beetles, spiders, ants — found on a single tree species in shade - grown coffee plantations approximates that found under similar conditions in undisturbed tropical forest.

The beetle larvae had limited effects on the strawberries.

In June take the cricket and the dung beetle and a red worm with its head cut off and a caddis worm before, and put them all on your hook at once -LRB-!).

Beetles, says Arnett, who is directing the massive North American Beetle Fauna Project, which aims to identify every single beetle in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, are the most successful order of life on earth.

The scarab beetles feast on dung.

We've been greeted by the first pests of the season - the tortoise beetle and the three - lined potato beetle on some potato and tomatillo plants.

Speaking of those helpers, I am particularly grateful for their help on hands and knees in the potato patch, where they can easily see under the plants to squash those eggs of the three lined potato beetle.

One example is the burying beetle, which owes its name to its habit of burying a mouse carcass that it then lays its eggs on.

Officials surmise that the beetle found in Buffalo Grove recently hitched to the gas station on a car or one of the many landscaping and construction trucks that visit the Speedway each day.

For reference, other brands I've used: little beetle snaps, little beetle velcro, imse velcro and wool pull - ons (can't remember brand).

Southern Pine Beetles, which are devastating forests across the Northeast, have arrived on Long Island.

The emerald ash borer — a voracious wood - boring beetle introduced to this country on a wooden palette of automobile parts shipped from China in the 1990s — is wrecking havoc on Erie County trees.

He referred, as he has previously, to the town's removing trees on private property to combat pine - beetle infestation.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

The beetle uses its mandibles to latch on to an army ant's rear, where it blends in while moving to a new nest together with the ants

«We had some clues that oral secretions of beetles suppressed defenses, but no one had followed up on that research.»

But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.

That changed abruptly in 1998, when mountain pine and western pine beetles began a vicious attack on evergreens from British Columbia to Baja California.

Tree Eaters On The Loose Bark beetles, a group of species that includes the mountain pine beetle, western pine beetle, and pine engraver, have thrived in North American forests for at least 12,000 years.

When beetle larvae emerge, they feed on the tree's tissues before flying off to colonize another tree and restart the cycle.