Sentences with phrase «on small flies»

In the new paper the researchers studied the conspicuous wing coloration of two species of damselflies, which are predated by birds and prey on small flies.

Extra cargo on a small flying mammal is limited to a mere 20 to 30 percent of the animal's predinner weight, so a small, low - fat meal won't fuel the bat for very long.

And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it!

Not exact matches

According to Waugh, The Prime outshines comparable aircraft on the market: «Other small aircrafts can feel pretty rough and ready, whereas this is smooth and flies like a much larger plane.»

Fulton has a small but telling example: Not long ago, Sport Chek posted a short video on its YouTube channel showing Stamkos firing pucks at flying drones.

As it turns out, abroad came knocking on his door, first in the form of a Swedish distributor, which began with small orders, and then, in early 2013, a large Spanish firm, Groupas Varagoza, which wanted to represent Flying Monkeys across Europe.

The aim of the weigh - ins, which might be more familiar to travelers who have flown on small planes, is to update nearly decade - old data on average passenger weights as it expands its route network and needs to accurately forecast payloads and how much fuel it requires.

From there, the drone flew to the home based on a pre-programmed flight path, dropped off the package held inside a small cage, and then flew off to rendezvous back with the van — which had since been driven to a spot miles away.

VistaJet will fly anywhere with an adequate runway, making it an attractive option for companies which have traditionally relied on small - scale charter services to shuffle employees from locale to locale, says Flohr.

One of the most cutting - edge is Palo Alto - based Bling Nation, which is trying to deploy a system that lets small firms create on - the - fly loyalty programs.

And when I've flown with them for business, I've always been blown away by the thoughtfulness on even the smallest details.

The Hellenic Army does have a presence on the small island, and earlier this month they fired tracer rounds at a Turkish helicopter that flew over its airspace.

Given that most users are checking email on the fly, what's the likelihood they will read a multi-page pdf on a small screen?

He has said that if NASA does buy rides on commercial rockets, he would be able to fly astronauts to the space station in his smaller Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule within three years.

Liam's changed from a small baby into a little boy who can walk a few steps on his own in just a few months, so time does seem to fly.

Jackson has heard bullets fly through her front door; lost sleep due to the noisy drug - dealing going on nearby; shared her small apartment for months at a time with children taken from crack - addicted mothers; calmed hysterical young women beaten by their drunk boyfriends; wept at the funerals of young boys; and battled obstinate government bureaucracies to get a swingset for the rusty and littered «playground» at the center of the Smith Homes.

When a small town in East Tennessee forced the «Flying Spaghetti Monster» onto the courthouse lawn the county passed a resolution to stop allowing religious - themed nonsense on the grounds.

An energetic graduate of Wesleyan College, class of 2013, no longer proud of her achievement - packed résumé, cuts off contact with her mother, flies to Hawaii, lives in a hut, and survives on plants from her small garden.

I was already tired because I had been up nursing during the night, Brian was off at work already, I simply wanted a quiet morning with my coffee because there was so much mundane work ahead on this day — cleaning bathrooms, doing laundry — but instead the Rice Krispies multiplied to biblical proportions while they flew through the air and one small cereal bowl became a nuclear wasteland scattered into seemingly every corner of the kitchen while milk streamed off the edge of the table puddling into the carnage and the bowl continued to spin.

Thou didst create the earth according to thy heart While thou wast alone Man, all cattle, large and small All that are upon the earth That go about on their feet (All) That are on high That fly with their wings The foreign countries, Syria and Kush, The land of Egypt Thou settest every man into his place Thou suppliest their necessities Everyone has his possessions And his days are reckoned The tongues are divers in speech Their forms likewise and their skins are distinguished (For) thou makest different the strangers.»

Then we would drop small objects on the spinning surface and respond with delight as they flew off in all directions.

If you're struggling with the parchment paper flying up and sticking to the meringue, just place small smears of meringue on the baking sheet at the corners as «glue» and stick the parchment down.

Had you been a fly on my ceiling, observing my day, you would've thought I was truly busy with very small tasks - like polishing the kitchen sink, folding and refolding laundry, carefully examining my growing tomatoes and herbs, and browsing ideas for my next sewing project.

He is wearing a small mike, making all of viewing America a fly on the wall.

The Hotel Oceano is now a small paradise with ravishing food; Mexicana Airlines flies into a local airfield; and the Benoists own not one but two apartados in an old palace on the hill.

The Complete Fly Fisherman is best savored in small bites, especially on early spring days when wind and winter runoff conspire to keep you off the water — where by all rights you should be — and in the library.

Based on the fact that most stores have a very small on - hand stock of Similac's Alimentum and the Enfamil version Nutragen, it implies that those formulas are not flying off the shelf compared to the basic baby formula.

On our flight home, I was (thankfully) not solo (small mercies, and all that) and we were flying with an injured child (again, more on that laterOn our flight home, I was (thankfully) not solo (small mercies, and all that) and we were flying with an injured child (again, more on that lateron that later).

I am looking for a stroller that we can gate check (I fly with carseats) that will last a while, and be able to handle hour swift long walks on mostly smooth terrain until I can put babe into the jogging stroller around 6 - 7 months for walks (while still using the new stroller for smaller spaces) and be easy to resell for a double if we have another baby.

Lastly, the large canopy looks great — many reviews i have seen of other strollers say the cannopy are often small, or fly back easily when even going on a light jog.

Aside from a small amount of erratic bleeding and a preterm labor scare that ended up being the stomach flu, my pregnancy was uneventful and flew by and before I knew it, I was out on maternity leave from work at 36 weeks and filling my calendar with social engagements to fill the days before my due date.

I'm off on a once - in - a-lifetime trip this weekend: NetJets invited a small group of bloggers to fly to Palm Beach for the weekend and I have a good feeling this is the first and last time I'll find myself on a private plane, haha.

I could fit them in my suit case when flying and they worked perfectly on a cruise ship in a small room.

If you're flying to meet family and your baby is small enough to stay on your lap during the flight, perhaps you can order a car seat online and have your family install it in their car before they pick you up from the airport.

Go ahead and splurge on some car toys I read once that if you are going to fly with small children (older babies included), you should pack at least three new toys the child has never seen before.

I have a small porous sack (similar to this Powder Pouch product) that brushes on the baby powder without the powder flying all over.

In Germany, meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel saw a small UAV flown by protesters crash - land in front of her at a political event, and a group of protesters staged a protest during a German parliamentary debate on the procurement of armed drones for the Bundeswehr.

«However, the universal credit proposals seem to fly in the face of simplicity when it comes to the reporting requirements being imposed on small employers and the self - employed.

«While we know that gas can play a small part as a bridging fuel as to move to greener sources, the government's decision to sign off upwards of 30GW of new gas simply flies in the face of warnings about the consequences of a «dash for gas» on both consumer bills and legally binding climate targets»

When one adds the fact that these crew members are flown from their homes to the place where they join the ship and back home afterwards at the expense of the company — and are provided free accommodation and food whilst on board — the basic wage of $ 250 per month ends up as a very small proportion of the overall reward package.

A 26 - year - old instructor and two teenagers were flying in a small plane when it lost power and made an emergency landing on an oceanfront beach, flipping over as its nose hit the sand, the police said.

It was 1983, and the newly elected governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, was flying on a small state plane from upstate to New York City.

Those questions, although important, are less interesting to aviation researchers than determining just how much damage increasingly common drones — like the 1.4 - kilogram quadcopter in the Staten Island incident — can potentially inflict on helicopters and small, low - flying aircraft.

The numerous first - time opportunities the fellowship afforded — flying on a plane, staying in a hotel, moving to the United States — earned me respect in my small farming town.

After attaching a small helium balloon to a moth to balance out the electronics» weight, Bozkurt and Amit Lal, his Ph.D. adviser at Cornell, discovered they really could fly the bug, as if its own brain were sending signals on how to move.

But I'm still captivated by that winged, flying train, though I've suggested one small modification to the developers: Equipping it with an air - to - ground missile that zeroes in on SUV - based text - messaging signals.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

The overexpression of an important gene that regulates energy metabolism can cause a severe shortening of lifespan in male fruit flies but has only a small negative effect on lifespans of female fruit flies, according to new research from North Carolina State University.

When the New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto on July 14, it will arrive not at the smallest planet but at the brightest and most intriguing member of the Kuiper Belt, the unexplored outer territory of the solar system.

But thanks to a host of ingenious analytic techniques and observation methods developed on the fly, with each new pass through Kepler's data mission scientists have managed to wring out ever - smaller planets.