Sentences with phrase «such tiny insects»

«How can such tiny insects, each less than 1 centimeter in size and equipped only with a simple brain, construct air - conditioned buildings up to 500 times their size?»

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Anyone who has tried to swat an insect can attest to how difficult it is to make contact with such elusive targets, but dragonflies, in spite of their tiny brains, have mastered the art.

Karin Nordström's group from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and Flinders University, Australia, and Shannon Olsson's team from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India, have long been interested in how insects, with their «teeny - tiny» brains can recognize objects such as flowers.

To understand why insects sting and why the stings of such tiny animals hurt so much, we first needed a way to measure the pain they cause.

The risk that cat fleas pose to humans is also consequential, since these tiny insects can harbor such zoonotic agents as those that cause such human diseases as cat - scratch disease (Bartonella henselae), murine typhus, and plague.

Hockney's humor is apparent in works such as Crawling Insects, 1961, where scratched - out figures are accompanied by a trail of insects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs iInsects, 1961, where scratched - out figures are accompanied by a trail of insects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs iinsects drawn in ink, as though, frustrated with his depictions of the human figure, the artist decided to draw tiny bugs instead.

In the rain forest, there is no such thing as silence and every tiny insect twang and buzz is vividly reproduced — which is particularly appropriate in a film about a man who recorded 1,000 hours of pygmy music *, capturing sounds he fears will soon evaporate as a tide of modernism floods the furthest nooks of this world.