Sentences with phrase «smaller insects»

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

«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.

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

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.

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

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.

Uncover the history of life on Earth, from the smallest insects to the largest mammals.

If we have not already found them, we must surely be close to discovering the smallest insects and other arthropods,» says the lead author, John Huber from Natural Resources Canada.

Fruit flies are small insects that are often used for genetic research as they reproduce quickly, are easy to breed in laboratory conditions and share many of the same fundamental mechanisms and pathways found in more complex organisms such as humans.

The smallest insects are comparable in size to unicellular organisms.

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

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

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

Seeing divinity even in a small insect is the core teaching of Hindu scriptures.

It is common for dogs to attract ear mites, which are small insects that live in the waxy secretions.

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

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

Every pet owner knows that fleas are small insects that can bite their pet and cause itching.

These small insects can cause real harm.

Cats fed on a wide range of species from large birds and medium sized mammals to small insects with at least 248 species consumed (27 mammals, 113 birds, 34 reptiles, 3 amphibians, 2 fish and 69 invertebrates).

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

Your pet is an easy target for parasites and small insects.

Fleas are a small insect parasite that may take up residence on your hedgehog, especially if exposed to fleas outdoors or in a house with dogs, cats or other animals who themselves have fleas.

Fleas are a small insect parasite that may take up residence on your ferret, especially if exposed to fleas outdoors or in a house with dogs, cats or other animals who themselves have fleas.

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

These are small insects that live inside of your cat's ear and on his hair coat.

Dogs that dig to search for small prey, such as rats, mice, moles, or small insects, perform this behavior out of instinct.

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

They are small insects, averaging between 1.5 to 4 millimeters in length.

The ideal habitat for Western snowy plovers consists primarily of coastal beaches, sandbars, sand dunes, and river - mouths, above the high tide line — making Ocean Beach and Crissy Field prime real estate for overwintering and finding their food source (small insects and beach invertebrates).

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.

The rooms are really spacey for a small insect, and there is much to explore.

EDDIE MARTINEZ Yard Work # 1 (Sam's Mint Garden) 2017 Oil, spray paint, enamel, small insects, leaves, grass and one human hair strand on canvas 30 1/8 by 40 in.