Sentences with phrase «tiny insects when»
I was searching all around for tiny insects when I ran into my friend Laura Lavine, a Washington State University scientist who studies bugs.
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Fruit flies — the tiny insects that swarm our kitchens over the summer months — exhibit rational decision making when selecting mates, according to research published today in Nature Communications.
When an insect happens into the plant's trap zone, it triggers minuscule hairs that send a tiny electrical signal, causing small amounts of water to shift.
When bats echolocate, they emit rapid - fire, high - frequency clicks (usually out of range of human hearing), then swivel their ears like radar dishes to catch the echoes, a system sensitive enough to detect objects as thin as a human hair and tiny, night - flying insects.
That insects «have an idea of where they want to go to, when they want to go, and what winds are good [is] surprising for these tiny creatures,» Bauer says.
(06/29/2010) Many people would likely consider «insect intelligence» a contradiction in terms, viewing insects — when they think of them as anything more than pests — as something like hardwired tiny robots, not adaptive, not intelligent, and certainly not conscious.