Sentences with phrase «teaming with insects»

Their investigation began when Boe showed Johnson a photo of a cup plant flower teaming with insects, including a large colony of bright red aphids.

This photo of a cup plant flower teaming with insects led entomologists to investigate the pollinator wasp diversity support potential of the plant and the role of aphids and parasitic wasps.

Not exact matches

The Big Picture team at Wellcome Trust investigate the issues surrounding health and sustainability that are associated with producing and eating two very different types of edible protein - beef and insects.

As worldwide temperatures rise and the earth sees extreme weather conditions in both summer and winter, a team of researchers with the University of Florida and Kansas State University have found that that there is potential for insects - and possibly other animals - to acclimate and rapidly evolve in the face of this current climate change.

In wild chickpea relatives, von Wettberg and the team — with support from USAID and the National Science Foundation — discovered many useful traits, including «striking resistance to insect pests,» he says.

Li's team combined synthetic resolin, a springy molecule originally found in insects, with GB1, an energy - dissipating protein from bacteria.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

Next, the team plans to investigate the effects of nanoparticles in a controlled wetland ecosystem, complete with algae, aquatic plants, microbes, insects, zooplankton and fish.

Once the insects reached the middle of the flyway, the team projected moving stripes on the floor that moved in pace with them, creating the illusion (for the flies at least) that the ground was still.

The team tethered the flies to a box with a fine wire and used air and streaming lights to make the insects think they were moving.

They then teamed up with another research group to create a gene drive that, unleashed in a lab population of mosquitoes, spread genes that prevent the insects from harboring malaria parasites.

The team is led by Wageningen and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with support from key stakeholders including Rothamsted Research, for its expertise in data analysis and the chemical ecology of insects.

For the past few months Weaver's team has fed lab - grown mosquitoes, related to the insects spreading disease in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, blood meals spiked with either a 2015 Zika strain from Mexico, a 2010 strain from Cambodia or a 1984 strain from Senegal.

Atwood and her team tested the idea in Canada and Costa Rica by temporarily removing fish and insect top predators from ponds, streams and tiny wet ecosystems associated with bromeliad plants.

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.

The team first trained a net to automatically recognize herbarium sheets that had been stained with mercury crystals, since mercury was commonly used by some early collectors to protect the plant collections from insect damage.

When the team dabbed sperm onto males» penises before the insects mated with virgin bedbugs, the mating time was reduced by about half, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Control penises dabbed with virgin bedbug juices led to first - time mating practices.

Air pollutants interact with and break down plant - emitted scent molecules, which insect pollinators use to locate needed food, according to a team of researchers led by Penn State.

Croizier and another team led by Susumu Maeda at the University of California at Davis have independently extended the host range of AcNPV to other species by infecting insect cells with AcNPV and a virus called Bm - NPV, which normally infects the common silkworm (Bombyx mori).

Water - striding insects skim across the surface of a pond with no effort at all, but a team of MIT mathematicians had to work hard to figure out how they do it.

To gain further insight, a team led by David Haussler, a computational biologist at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), extended the junk DNA comparison to five vertebrate species — humans, mice, rats, chickens, and pufferfish — along with four insects, two worms, and seven species of yeast.

These insects team up with symbiotic bacteria which produce an antibiotic cocktail of up to 45 different substances within a single species to protect their offspring against mold fungi.

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.

The team has designed a novel genetic manipulation that ensures only insects with a specific trait survive early development — and they have tested the technique in fruit flies.

The teams» results are especially important with respect to our scarce knowledge of what attracts wild insect pollinators to flowers.

The team of UW and Duke University scientists — which includes specialists in emergent and insect - borne diseases, genetics and immunology, pediatrics and pregnancy — have been working with infected monkeys for months.

And not just the animals: the VFX team was required to create a living, breathing world filled with plants, trees and insects.

Twitchers will love the coastal mangroves around Tortuguero, a huge national park comprising coast and jungle - fringed waterways teaming with bird and insect life.

Simply known as Ka («Mosquito») in Japan, the concept executive producer Akira Satō — who used to be the director and / or producer on most of Zoom's projects — cooked up to bring his team into the 21st century was sheer ingenuity: In the shoes of a tiny bloodsucking insect (yes, it actually wears shoes), players got to terrorize the typical (at least on the surface) Japanese suburban family Yamada by sneaking up to them, alleviating them from a few drops of their blood, and getting out with a full stomach.

Plus, team up with the brilliant but insect - headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. in co-op mode, to save the earth from the megalomaniacal alien Gallaxhar.

A team of researchers has been looking at ways to repel insects and cut down on the spread of these diseases by experimenting with how different hues of light affect their behavior.

All of the ants that he and his team studied were contaminated with phthalates, regardless of where the insects originated.

We may not be pulling dinosaur DNA from insects fossilized in amber any time soon, but fossilized insects can still give us a window into the past: a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have documented 39 examples of ancient insects disguising themselves with various items, from general debris to the exoskeletons of dispatched foes.