Sentences with phrase «says about the insects»
«If you scale down the system, you become much more power - efficient and agile,» Sitti says about the insects» superior speed.
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The boundary - pushing behemoth is conducting «preliminary talks» with Next Millennium about adding insect protein to food served in the company's cafeterias, Goldin says.
«People have been talking about insect farming for a long time,» says Imrie - Situnayake, «but no one had really done much research into it yet.
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).
We know that, the insect population is about 80 — 90 % of the entire 7,770,000 species, so making a conservative estimate, we will say it is 90 %.
On one side you have Tolstoi saying, «Where love is, there God is also»; and on the other side is Joseph Wood Krutch, one of the finest nontheistic humanists of our time, who, seeing in goodness no revelation of the Eternal, says about man, «There is no reason to suppose that his own life has any more meaning than the life of the humblest insect that crawls from one annihilation to another.»
When I questioned him about washing bananas, he said that he had seen bananas loaded onto cargo ships complete with insects that infested them, along with the insects» feces and eggs, and that bananas required unusual clinical procedures.
«What these researchers are uncovering about the agronomics of cup plant, as well as the insects that affect them, will help us decide how they can be integrated into a bioenergy cropping system,» said Vance Owens, director of the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center.
«People thought insects were passive and just got accidentally blown about,» says researcher Jason W. Chapman of the University of Exeter in England.
«What you have to understand about insects is they're all coldblooded, so they rely on the environment to tell them what their body should be doing,» said Missy Henriksen, a spokeswoman for the National Pest Management Association.
Chemical signals dominate the insect world, says Berenbaum, and this research shows that «new things can be discovered about even the most dirt common of insect pests.»
«I couldn't find a place with broad information about all groups of fungi that infect insects in the same study,» said Joao Araujo, graduate student in biology.
«Smell is an underappreciated sense in people — but when you talk about insects, many «see» their world in chemicals,» said Mitchell, a fellow in the Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching program.
To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.
Collinson says the company is «very cautious» about the insects» well - being.
«We're talking about an immense number of insects,» Menz says.
Scott Armbruster, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Portsmouth, and one of the authors, said: «Contrary to the accepted wisdom, the role of nectar seems in this instance to not be just about attracting and rewarding pollinating insects.
«To determine the impact of a delayed flood, we looked at flood timings of six and eight weeks after planting, which is about two months that the seed treatment was sitting in the soil without having insect pressure,» Adams said.
«Any flying animal larger than a large insect will need to use some kind of controlled stall or hover mechanism to land,» he says, but the new track «does not give us any new information about launch».
However, opponents, such as GeneWatch UK, say there are unanswered questions about the insects, whether they will spread unpredictably, for example.
«In context of climate change, you see increases of both insect outbreaks and fires, which has sparked concerns about their interactions,» said Garrett Meigs, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.
Before this study, he says, scientists were «clueless» about how insects like katydids accomplished that task.
«What is really exciting about this research is that our analysis of flapping - wing locomotion is not limited to insect - scaled vehicles,» said Chen.
«Termites appeared some 150 million years ago while the social Hymenoptera appeared about 100 million years ago, so this discovery of a hydrocarbon as a royal - recognition pheromone in termites appears to predate its use in social insects,» Schal said.
It's what the direct - to - video market should be all about: a training ground for young filmmakers to stretch their wings, even if said wings belong to giant predatory insects.
«There is much we don't yet know about feeding insects to dogs and cats,» said Finke.
There are also significant concerns about the reliability of the forest retrapping the carbon, since climate change is expected to increase the risks of forest fires and insect infestations, said Sterman.
More mainstream scientists, while stating that CO2 fertilization is real, are much less certain about the long - term effects, saying that the heat and water stress associated with climate change seem to be making forests vulnerable to insect attack, fires and many other problems.
This isn't something I've been able to say about other wireless in - ear earbuds — Samsung's Gear IconX earbuds always make me feel like an insect is burrowing its way through my ear and into my brain.
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