Sentences with phrase «which beetles»

In all species tested, the head horn is inserted under the opponent to pry him from the tree bark on which the beetles live, but the maneuvers are different.

Her husband is starchitect Bernard Tschumi, who is responsible for the Lower East Side's Blue Condominium, which beetles over the Essex Crossing site.

Bark beetles attack trees in order to reproduce, and outbreaks occur primarily in forests in which the beetle's host trees are large and abundant.

Every aspect of the beetle's life is affected by temperature — from the number of eggs it lays, to its ability to disperse, to the rate at which the beetle moves from one life stage to the next (for example, from pupa to adult), to the survival of the beetle during cold periods.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

The beetle targets mature trees, which is what companies usually prefer to harvest.

His research is partly inspired by a type of beetle found in the Namib Desert in southwest Africa, which collects moisture from the seemingly dry air on its shell and drinks the condensed water as it rolls into its mouth.

As seen in the video, it took Bananasaurus Rex a few tries before getting through the whole level, which is peppered with lots of Super Mario - sized threats, including bombs, carnivorous plants and Buzzy Beetles.

In the forestry sector, warmer winter temperatures linked to climate change is the major factor contributing to the outbreak of the mountain pine beetle in Western Canada, which had reduced the economic value of over 18 million hectares of Canadian forest by 2012.

«Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing, that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; (including) the locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper after his kind» (Leviticus 11:21,22).

Lev 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; Lev 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

Every situation in which the Word of God is declared in preaching is a place and a moment on the riverbank; and the permeability of that time and place to the declared Word is bound up with the forests, the birds, the beetles, and the waters of history.

Under the bark of the trees, for instance, there are millions of beetles which, undisturbed, would destroy the trees.

This diversity is reflected in the unique spice mixture ras el hanout, which is prepared with twenty to thirty spices ranging from the familiar to the downright weird, including belladonna berries, iris leaves, and Spanish fly — the reputedly aphrodisiac cantharide beetles.

The bats then deposit their waste which is processed once again by millions of beetles and decomposing micro-organisms.

The standout moment of 2010 was the emergence of a gigantic beetle, which scuttled its way into the stadium and spent some time fussing with an oversized Jabulani.

Beetles, says Arnett, who is directing the massive North American Beetle Fauna Project, which aims to identify every single beetle in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, are the most successful order of life on earth.

The earth as we know it, Arnett says, could not survive without beetles, which serve as food for fish, birds and other wildlife.

One example is the burying beetle, which owes its name to its habit of burying a mouse carcass that it then lays its eggs on.

A certain kind of beetle is crushed and boiled to extract juice, which his then used to color foods that need a pink, orange, or red hue.

Southern Pine Beetles, which are devastating forests across the Northeast, have arrived on Long Island.

Like ants and honeybees, beetles communicate via scented chemicals called pheromones, one of which warns the insects to stay away from particular trees.

But that trick doesn't work on ambrosia fungus, which fungus - eating beetles raise in «gardens» that have a ready supply of ethanol.

The «ladybug» taint is caused by alkyl - methoxypyrazines, which accumulate in wine both from grapes themselves and from remains of «ladybug» beetles in crushed grapes.

They're followed by the maggots of beetles, then those of mites (which feast on dry skin) and moths (which prefer hair).

Plus, it is essential to get routine down in determining the species of larvae, pupae, adult flies, and beetles — which is a frustrating, painstaking process.

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

Cross sections of the body of a wood beetle reveal the tracheal tubes (see arrows) through which the insect draws in air.

This year, Zhang will complete a prototype of the system dedicated to identifying longhorn beetles, which are also a pest in Australia.

«We wanted to know how these beetles recolonize within burn units as well as how the neighborhood in which a burn unit occurs affects recolonization rates,» said Jessie Mutz, an FSU graduate student in the Department of Biological Science and the study's lead author.

Another includes two ticks together, both of which have hairs stuck to them from a type of beetle larvae thought to live in dinosaur nests.

The 180 microlenses of Roger and Huang's camera is comparable to the eye of fire ants and bark beetles, but less than the fly eye, which has thousands of small eyes.

The insects create ripples in the water, which generates drag at speeds greater than 0.23 meters per second (more drag than when the beetles just fly through air).

Savage's analysis, conducted in New York City, compared the diversity of arthropods — insects such as ants, bees, beetles, and wasps — that were living in parks and street medians before and after Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged parts of New Jersey and New York in 2012.

Hosken bred 12 generations of beetles to create groups in which all the males had either small, large or average - sized mandibles.

For smaller species, such as water - dwelling riffle beetles (Optioservus fastiditus, also pictured), the miniature ruler helps measure the bug itself, which comes in at a whopping 2 millimeters long.

They include the Asian longhorned beetle, which also attacks and kills trees and likely arrived in shipping containers or pallets.

Evolution is not easy to measure in a field setting, which is why Ruth Hufbauer, a professor in CSU's Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, and her colleagues Christopher Weiss - Lehman and Brett Melbourne, from CU's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, used flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum) to observe evolutionary processes in controlled environments.

The new material is much more efficient than current mist - catching nets, in which most of the water passes through uncollected, says Andrew Parker, the Oxford University zoologist who originally described the beetle's unique surface.

Scientists discovered that flies and beetles secrete a sticky fluid over their feet, which seems to act like a glue.

This involves simply keeping the airport's grass long (and planting grass in areas which are now bare), draining off all standing water, and controlling the scarab beetles.

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

Dung beetles «see about 1000 times better than honey bees, which have the best daytime vision,» explains James Gould, an evolutionary biologist and an expert in insect communication and navigation from Princeton University.

This is specifically true for fishes and the threchine beetles, the second of which is also the group featured in this study,» explains the senior author of the study Prof. Mingyi Tian.

The findings help researchers understand how the beetle manages to make love without breaking itself, but could also improve the design of medical devices such as catheters, which can lead to complications from inexact tip placement and line buckling, NPR reports.

In nature, the Cyphochilus beetle, which is native to Southeast Asia, produces its ultra-white colouring not through pigments, but by exploiting the geometry of a dense network of chitin — a molecule which is also found in the shells of molluscs, the exoskeletons of insects and the cell walls of fungi.

When she and Duarte raised the burying beetle larvae with germ - free mice, which lack any gut bacteria, the young did not grow as large as those buried with regular mice.

«Knowing which tree stands may be most susceptible to this beetle is extremely important information for managers working to protect our forests,» said Carissa Aoki, a post-doctoral research associate at Dartmouth and lead author of the study.

«Predicting which trees are at greatest risk of beetle invasion: Study helps managers protect forests from pest that is moving north with climate change.»