Sentences with phrase «small beetles»

It takes only a few years for younger, smaller beetle - killed trees to fall and begin to decompose, said Veblen.

Larger beetles were more likely to survive than smaller beetles, and larger toads had a better chance at keeping down their lunches.

«Mr. Louis and the small beetle» is an animation film shot frame by frame, lasting for about six and a half minutes.

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But with a firm downward motion — imagine enough pressure to crush a small beetle — you can start a crumbly little landslide, giving the pastry a pleasing homemade appearance.

For example, Euhrychiopsis lecontei, colloquially referred to as the milfoil weevil, is a small beetle that eats certain milfoil species.

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Gargantuan dinosaurs like brontosauruses, or gigantic mammals like Baluchitherium could easily have inhaled insects, and they would have to dodge ants, beetles, worms, frogs, snakes, and even much smaller mammals with each gargantuan step.

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...

To investigate this peculiar defence, Greco's team put parasitic small hive beetles, Aethina tumida, near the entrance of laboratory beehives.

Yet neither robber bees nor pests like wax moths and small hive beetles are entering the emptied bee boxes.

Until recently there was virtually nothing landowners could do to protect even small parcels of forest from bark beetles.

What's more, even small amounts of ethanol stalled the growth of microbial «weeds» that crowd out the beetles» food source, like the fungus Penicillium.

But after a half century of detective work, a small group of scientists has come up with a novel and surprisingly effective means of defense: hijacking the beetles» sense of smell.

The 180 microlenses of Roger and Huang's camera is comparable to the eye of fire ants and bark beetles, but less than the fly eye, which has thousands of small eyes.

Hosken bred 12 generations of beetles to create groups in which all the males had either small, large or average - sized mandibles.

When a fly, beetle or even a small frog crawls across its specially adapted leaves, these spring together with surprising force, sandwiching the unsuspecting prey and blocking its escape.

Varroa mites, small hive beetles, Nosema fungi, deformed wing virus, unusual signs of pesticide exposure, for instance — screening techniques at the time just weren't picking up a clear pattern in any of these bee bedevilments.

The Japanese Beetle (Popillia japonica) is a beetle about 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) long and 1 cm (0.4 inches) wide (smaller in Canada), with shiny copper - colored elytra and a shiny green top of the thorax and head.

For smaller species, such as water - dwelling riffle beetles (Optioservus fastiditus, also pictured), the miniature ruler helps measure the bug itself, which comes in at a whopping 2 millimeters long.

As in previous studies, the beetles were used to model ecological and evolutionary conditions because of their small size and their more rapid progression through subsequent generations.

Taken together, these regulars form a neat ecosystem, with spiders and centipedes as apex predators, hunting smaller fry such as carpet beetles and other spiders.

Animals preying on undispersed seeds are typically small insects, such as flies, beetles, and moth larvae, with limited mobility.

The beetle mimic cockroach, Diploptera punctata, is much smaller and is not considered a pest around human habitats.

Many times over, Duarte put a dead mouse in a small box with a pair of burying beetles.

«Even though it is known that some beetle species use their fecal excretions to pass information to their conspecifics, we were surprised about how highly attractive even the smallest amounts of frass were to vinegar flies,» reports Ian Keesey, the first author of the study.

One of their nastiest foes: small hive beetles (Aethina tumida).

To isolate the invaders, honeybees construct small chambers around the beetles, but do not seal them off completely.

«When [small hive beetles] invade a colony, their larval feeding and the spoilage that ensues converts the comb and honey into this lavalike substance.

For this reason, Professor Stork and his colleagues focused on asking how many species of beetles and insects there actually are, in the process applying a new method of estimation arising from a tendency for larger species of British beetles to be described before smaller species.

And because genome sequencing is relatively cheap now, it's feasible to analyze DNA in large numbers of the beetles, and possibly to detect species — such as the critically endangered small leopard found on the Arabian Peninsula — without ever laying eyes on them.

Female burying beetles — which belong to the species Nicrophorus vespilloides — routinely fight over the carcasses of small birds and rodents, which they use to provide their young with food.

The radars recorded medium - sized insects (hoverflies, ladybird beetles, and water boatmen) and large ones (hawk moths, painted lady butterflies, and aquatic beetles) flying between 150 meters and 1200 meters high; balloon sampling flights helped provide estimated counts for smaller insects.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

To find out how this mode of oxygen transport affected the size of insects, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory X-rayed beetles large and small.

The idea was tested in a small seed beetle where both males and females express low levels of SSB.

Specifically, smaller stands of trees — roughly the size of a few football fields — situated throughout crop fields provided better levels of beetle protection than the much larger forest preserves set on the outskirts of farms.

Sugiura and colleagues set out to find out why through a series of experiments in which toads and beetles were placed inside small enclosures where they duked it out one - on - one (Biol.

description: small gold beetle vintage brooch.

1971 Volkswagen Karmann Cheetah In the early 1970s, German coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH was already responsible for building the slinky Karmann Ghia and drop - top Beetles for Volkswagen — but it also helped build a small, conceptual sports car for VW and Italdesign.

Today, Two Brothers is home to the Gregory family, their chocolate lab, a small stable of gentle horses, several blue - headed parrots, small wild fox, large green iguanas, curious porcupines, chirping geckos, toads the size of footballs, moths the size of birds, and exotic rhinoceros beetles that dwarf your hand.

Small Buzzy Beetles appear in the Sacred Forest, along with a Small Buzzy Beetle Gang.

The Hours (Dawn, Noon, Twilight, Night)(2014) is one of the most striking; though among the smallest paintings on display, this four - panel work fragments two of the pieces into dissimilar compositions, leaving a pair of small panels seemingly connected by a shared beetle — a symbol of time's passage, life or mortality — which clings to the top of the two works.

When the exhibition was taken down, the wooden frames around some of the paintings were found to be infested by small yet destructive beetles.

But when I hear these arguments, I wonder whether those who make them have really thought about the oysters, the pine beetles, the dry docks and all other other ways, big and small, in which their ecology is changing.

In addition to ticks, other invasive pests like winter moth, Asian long - horned beetles and emerald ash borers are finding Maine's climate more hospitable, which presents challenges to the state's forestry sector, says Small Woodlot Owners of Maine Director Tom Doak.

Hummingbirds, bats, beetles, bees, ants, wasps, butterflies, and other small animals help plants reproduce by transporting pollen within a flower or between flowers, resulting in healthy fruits and fertile seeds.

[For your information European flycatchers eat spiders, ants, beetles, bees, wasps, mosquitoes, moths — in other words anything that's small and either walks or flies.

Later, flying in a small plane over the Montana wilderness, Dr. Running said beetles were not the only problem confronting the forests of the West.

«They're very small, very tiny beetles, about the size of a grain of rice,» said Cal Fire Regional Manager Glenn Barley.