Sentences with phrase «small insects about»

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

Not exact matches

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).

Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.

But we have to set against this the fascination of the small, so that in itself, the size of insects doesn't explain much about human attitudes toward them.

Finally, we analyse date labels on packaging, look at insects as a source of sustainable food production and speak to small farmers about cocoa crops and production.

But before you go checking his hairline for a small burrowing insect, read on for all you need to know about childhood tics.

Hence, even chimpanzees consume about 5 % of their calories from animal food, mostly insects but sometimes small mammals as well (incidentally, that matches with the 95 % plant - based figure from the cited paper).

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the Pill Bug can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech about it.

«As a decorated Viet - Nam vet and now an old Scoutmaster, I use insect characters to tell stories about universal truth, loyalty and honor, even if the heroes and villains are very small folk.»

The fleas that you may notice on your pet are in the adult stage, and are small, blackish brown insects about the size of a grain of salt or pepper.

Fleas are small (about 2 mm long), brown, wingless insects with laterally compressed bodies that allow them to move swiftly through fur.

Small pools of water serve as a home to a small school of fish while swamps may buzz to life with the sound of nearby insects that are darting aSmall pools of water serve as a home to a small school of fish while swamps may buzz to life with the sound of nearby insects that are darting asmall school of fish while swamps may buzz to life with the sound of nearby insects that are darting about.

It was also the exhibition that confirmed Richter's status as one of the leading artists in the world, and was described by Storr in his introduction as «long overdue» in the United States.2 In 2003 Richter embarked on a small but substantially sized series of paintings entitled Silicate [CR: 885/1 -4] inspired by an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from 12 March 2003 about the shimmering qualities of certain insects» bodies.3 The resulting four large paintings are perhaps the most overtly biological of the abstract works in Richter's oeuvre, suggestive of cell formations and genetic sequences seen under the microscope.