Sentences with phrase «small insects in»

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

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

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

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.

Smaller trends that are positioned to gain popularity in 2017 include food waste awareness, niche animal proteins (insects!)

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

Franz is extreme in his practices of fostering a diverse life of insects, small animals, and other organisms even in the world -LSB-...]

Earth & Skye Farm is a small CSA farm and an adventure in growing vibrant, healthy food and soil while exploring the spiritual and creative dimensions of farming; providing space to experience and honor the rhythms of seasonality in plant, insect and human life.

These things could be insects, Vikings, small marine critters, fish — even sitting in a pilot's seat.

Moose Hill in Sharon has a small native garden and a larger bird garden, both alive with birds, butterflies, and insects.

It is most common in children under the age of 6 and begins when bacteria get into the skin after a small break in the skin like a scratch or insect bites.

Recent studies in Japan have virtually all found that the abandonment of small, traditionally managed rice paddies results in less biodiversity among the seminatural grasses and weeds that grow on paddy margins and in the insect populations that depend on that vegetation.

The resulting tangled networks provided protective habitats for small animals, hundreds of insects, and smaller plants, which nestled themselves atop the beds of Pecopteris roots in their never - ending search for the sun.

«A similar principle operates, for instance, in insect flight, where big power muscles provide the main force that is then redirected by smaller steering muscles for lift and drag.

Light - emitting diode (LED) streetlights often draw moths and other insects into small areas at night, setting a buffet for nocturnal predators, but certain aspects of the lights themselves might be rendering insects vulnerable in even more sinister ways, new research suggests.

In one scorpion species, researchers have found that the arachnids use a relatively weak, but easily produced, prevenom for small jobs such as paralyzing insects and save their deadliest venom for serious work like fending off a larger animal.

A kind of symbiotic bacteria found in pea aphids (smaller ovals) help the insects resist parasitic wasps.

All blood - sucking insects have small arsenals of chemicals in their saliva — including blood vessel dilators and anticlotting agents — that help them guzzle blood.

Their brains are smaller and contain fewer neurons, and researchers have powerful genetic tools for monitoring and perturbing specific neurons and neural circuits in these insects.

Small mammals in the soil that depend, in part, on insects would disappear.

The old hypothesis hinged upon the fact that many of the early mammal fossils that had been found were from small, insect - eating animals — there didn't seem to be much in the way of diversity.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

Ants are also, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson, the premier turners of soil in the world, the chief predators of other insects, and the principal scavengers of small dead animals — all activities that ultimately benefit humans.

One of the notable differences in the characteristics of insect residues between coated and uncoated surfaces is the smaller area of the residue.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

And although many insect species are too small to be detected in Doppler radar data, researchers are finding new ways to extract the signals of insects and track their migrations as they happen.

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

While studying the insect collection of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, two American scientists uncovered a small, leaf - dwelling praying mantis with unique features collected from Madagascar in 2001.

«In fact, the miniature species are locally abundant and fairly common but they have probably been overlooked because of their extremely small size, secretive habitats and insect - like calls,» says Sonali Garg who undertook this study as part of her PhD research at University of Delhi.

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.

As these insects are too small to have ears in their heads, their location in the legs coupled with the tubing system allows the insect to hear a sound four times; twice in each ear.

One day in the lab, Sweeney put two plants a few centimeters apart on the same Petri plate and made two small cuts on the leaf of one to simulate an insect's attack.

But despite their name most of these creatures are small and live quietly in silk - lined burrows, trapping nothing more impressive than the occasional insect.

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.

The Texas Department of Agriculture is working with researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the ants, which, along with biting humans, feed on other insects (including the beloved ladybug) and even eat the hatchlings of a small, endangered grouse called the Atwater prairie chicken.

The fibers are so small in diameter that prey insects easily become entangled in them, without any glue needed.

While miniature helicopters already exist, without a flapping mechanism you can't make aircraft as small as insects, says Hod Lipson at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

«The bats also need to use the slow timing of the right hemisphere to use sonar — which relies on detecting small changes in frequency — to track the velocity of the fast - moving insects they fly after and eat,» Washington says.

«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.

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds — and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards — reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.

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

«In terms of practical nature conservation, these results signify that in the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquIn terms of practical nature conservation, these results signify that in the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin the future it will no longer be sufficient to preserve small, isolated reserves — while these benefit specialized species with a simple genetic structure, the bulk of species that depend on an exchange between local populations will lose out in the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin the medium to long term,» predicts Schmitt, and he adds in closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.&raquin closing, «This will lead to a further decline of numerous insect species — with dramatic consequences for entire food webs and ecosystems.»

To find out, Hu's team used high - speed cameras to film the insects flying in a specially constructed «rain box» — a small container with a mesh roof through which water can be sprayed to simulate a rain shower.

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.

The Harvard RoboBee, designed in Wood's lab, is a microrobot, smaller than a paperclip, that flies and hovers like an insect, flapping its tiny, nearly invisible wings 120 times per second.

And because they are small and blend in, the insects hitchhike on the grapes and wind up in the winery, giving off stress compounds that sometimes affecting the quality of the wine and juice.

A small green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis, right) in the southern United States used to have the only game running when it came to hunting insects.