Sentences with phrase «years by beetles»

These include millions of trees killed in recent years by beetles that prefer warmer weather, and declines in spring soil moisture brought on by earlier snowmelt.

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The pollen's structure suggests that the plants were pollinated by insects: most likely beetles, as bees would not evolve for another 100 million years.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

McAlister honed her interest by doing fieldwork during her undergraduate years: She spent several months working at the now - defunct Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Dorset, where she studied the effects of climate change on heather beetles.

In addition, the team found that some of the beetle species that used the same pheromone stayed true to their species by segregating their mating activity by season of the year.

The coldest night of the winter in this region has warmed by about 7 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 50 years, creating favorable conditions for the southern pine beetle to increase its range.

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

A study found that insectivorous birds cut infestations by the beetle Hypothenemus hampei by about half, saving a medium - sized coffee farm up to US$ 9,400 over a year's harvest — roughly equal to Costa Rica's average per - capita income.

About 30 years ago, entomologist Terry Erwin of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., came up with an equation to estimate the number of insects in the tropics by measuring how much beetles specialize on tree species.

Last year, when my character in the 3DS game Animal Crossing: New Leaf frequented Tortimer's island for beetle farming, she was met by the stereotype of the haggling island native.

In most of the country, wood framed houses are maintenance sinks by 60 years of age due to termites, carpenter ants, boring beetles, dry rot, and deformation caused leaks.

By 2020, the beetles will have killed so much forest that their net effect will be the equivalent of five years of C02 emissions by all the cars and trucks of CanadBy 2020, the beetles will have killed so much forest that their net effect will be the equivalent of five years of C02 emissions by all the cars and trucks of Canadby all the cars and trucks of Canada.

This was this first attack of the Mountain Pine Beetle east of the Rocky Mountains... the year when the unthinkable actually happened: carried along by the prevailing winds, trillions of Mountain Pine Beetles crossed the Rocky Mountains from BC into Alberta.

A bark beetle epidemic driven by drought is killing off millions of trees in the Sierra Nevada as California starts another summer plagued by drought and higher temperatures.almost 2 years ago

A 2009 study looked at conifer forests in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California after significant tree mortality, stemming from a pine beetle outbreak in 2002, was followed by fires in subsequent years.

A festering problem Lloyd reported on last year — the invasion of British Columbia's forests by voracious mountain pine beetles — has taken a drastic turn for the worse, according to a new study published in

The viburnum is being hurt by a Japanese beetle, which can be caught with a pheromone trap in early summer next year.

The number of trees in California's Sierra Nevada forests killed by drought, a bark beetle epidemic and warmer temperatures has dramatically increased since last year, raising fears they will fuel catastrophic wildfires and endanger people's lives, officials said Wednesday.