Sentences with phrase «small insects»

But for small insects, this distance represents several body lengths, a relatively long distance.

The fossil bird's stomach contents also contained a few bits of small insects.

They move around the world, interacting with smaller insects and animals, battling one another for territory and domination, hunting for prey or sleeping.

In another scene, small insects begin to eat a man's clothes and, presumably, the person wearing them.

This can also include identifying small insects, such as ticks or fleas.

That said, rooms on ground floor are right next to the garden, and so there are likely to be ants and small insects inside occasionally.

Smaller insects feed the birds we love to see in our yard and trees.

They move around the world, interacting with smaller insects and animals, battling one another for territory and domination, hunting for prey or sleeping.

Mites are small insect parasites that can cause serious skin problems for your guinea pig.

MSV is transmitted amongst maize and other weed host plants by small insects called leafhoppers.

They will then spend a year on land, foraging for small insects in mossy outcroppings and on forest floors.

In the wild, they're known to eat small insects such as crickets and mealworms.

There are plenty of projects out there attempting to replicate the locomotion of insects, but one thing that computers and logic aren't so good at is improvising and adapting the way even the smallest

Apart from providing a food source for some beneficial organisms; being porous, they contain numerous tiny holes which help to both aerate the bin and offer hiding places for other smaller insects.

«It probably ate very small insects and small worms, and it would have had to eat continuously because of its high metabolism rate,» Luo says.

Hamsters are omnivores and will happily snack on a variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and small insects such as mealworms or crickets.

Spiders love to hide in dark places, and any leftover food will attract small insects that they can feast on.

While wintering in coffee farms, Black - throated Blue Warblers consume primarily small insects, many of which are coffee pests.

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

Lice are small insects about the size of a grain of rice that lay small whitish or brownish eggs called nits.

When the fish spot small insects on overhead branches and leaves, they spit a stream of water from their mouths that can dislodge that insect, causing it to fall onto the water's surface.

Small insects beware: velvet worms are on the hunt, and have a unique method of persuading you to stay for dinner

Small insects stick to the leaf and starve; larger ones that ingest the «glue» develop severe constipation.

First, the tiny sharp edges of ground diatomaceous earth is both irritating and deadly to small insects because it is small enough to shred the delicate exoskeleton of bugs.

Most of the wildlife you'll see on this trip will be small insects taking the forms of stick bugs, scorpions, and the irritating cicada.

«The movement of small insects in the convective boundary layer: linking patterns to processes.»

Dante pictures them running aimlessly, being stung continually by small insects, which represent the thought that, in doing anything definite at all, they are missing out on something else.

This study demonstrated EFT can relieve the fear of spiders and small insects in just minutes.

Microbial residents reduce the surface tension of water enough for ants and other small insects to slip immediately into the pool instead of perching lightly on the surface, he reports November 23 in Biology Letters.

To create the 3D avatars, «we used X-ray microtomography, or micro-CT, which is comparable to when you go to the doctor and get a CT scan but at much higher resolution, to scan very small insects,» explains Dr. Francisco Hita Garcia, first author on the study and a member of the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at OIST.

In the wilds of Australia, bearded dragons eat small insects, fruits and vegetables.

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.

The feeling crept inside of me like a small insect, gnawing at my nerves, and I began to quicken my pace a notch, as if to escape from my emotions.

There are many species of warblers, small insect eating birds, that live in the tropics during our winter, then fly through our backyards on the way to Canada to spend the summer breeding and eating things like tent caterpillars.

These small insects can spread throughout schools and households.

The health department is also giving away minnows — small insect - eating fish for backyard ponds — and larvacide tablets at no cost.

That tree was inhabited by small insect - eating free - tailed bats of a species (Mops condylurus) that previous research has suggested may harbor Ebola, Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and colleagues report December 30 in EMBO Molecular Medicine.

A breathable mesh keeps you sheltered from even the smallest insects.

Kuntner and colleagues staked out 46 webs and found that most of the prey was small insects like beetles, damselflies, dragonflies and wasps.

One is a mouse - size marsupial that eats nothing but nectar, pollen, and small insects — the ecological equivalent of a flightless hummingbird.

So far, the members of the 31st insect order, dubbed Mantophasmatodea, fall into two genera and three species, making this the smallest insect order on record.

16 The small insect Pameridea, which lives only on South Africa's carnivorous Roridula, eats other bugs trapped by the plant's sticky trichomes and then excretes nutrients that Roridula needs.

For instance, a high biodiversity of decomposers and small insects is important in regulating soil chemistry, recycling nutrients and providing fertile soils.

Small insects, particularly ants, are the usual prey of the 120 or so species of Nepenthes plants.

The presence of bee - associated bacteria in bagged flowers suggests the bacteria may be transmitted to flowers via plant surfaces, the air or small insects, he said.

Although about half of their diet is fruit, they are always on the lookout for a small insect or lizard to pounce on.

«They eat anything — rotten leaves, snails or fish broods, small fish, small insects,» says Frank Lyko, a molecular geneticist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.

When the small insect jumps between plants, it applies enough force to its spindly hind legs to snap them in half.

At a mere 2 to 3 millimeters in length, thrips are among the smallest insects found on Australian soil, and they have evolved various ways to keep cool and avoid drying out.

They're able to do so thanks to the larger surface area of their wings, which enables them to ride the prevailing winds, often at altitudes of more than 1000 km, while dining on aerial plankton and small insects.