It was noted that the contact surface of the tarsi of the beetle Hemisphaerota cyanea is water-repellent. |
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She has a long way to go before collecting every species because there are 350,000 different kinds of beetle. |
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The darkling beetle or lesser mealworm, Alphitobius diaperinus, is rapidly becoming more of a nuisance in the poultry operation. |
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Even so, an ongoing drought and millions of acres of dead, bark beetle infected trees have turned much of the west into a potential tinderbox. |
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The University of Bonn uses the infrared-sensitive sensors of the jewel beetle as a template for a remote fire-sensitive network. |
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After several years of drought, which may be related to global warming, pine trees have become vulnerable to the bark beetle. |
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Weevils bore through the stem and eat the pith within, and beetle larvae bore through the roots. |
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Beyond the cut, the beetle can feed without gumming up its feet and mouthparts. |
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But within minutes the wily beetle has dragged the spider across a hillock of red earth and crammed it into its small hole. |
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The Lake Tahoe basin lost 30 percent of its pines to bark beetle infestation during the 1986-1994 drought, according to Blomquist. |
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When Darrel noticed Jody, a practicum student, using a camera, he asked her to take a picture of his spruce bark beetle. |
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Lastly, we have two scenes in which Norm and Marge half-asleep watch a Nature show about the life cycle of a bark beetle. |
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Bark thickness imparts some level of insulation on host tree phloem and influences bark beetle brood survival during cold periods. |
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The warmer, drier climate has also helped cause massive outbreaks of spruce bark beetle and mountain pine beetle in the northern conifer forests. |
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Well, that's what happens when the spruce bark beetle comes and eats the green off the tree. |
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The resins flow rate and total production influence the pine tree's ability to physically repel a bark beetle attack. |
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The beetle normally hatches in August and then spends the winter, dormant, in larvae beneath the bark. |
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They also enjoy beetle grubs known as bardees and green tree ants mashed into a paste with water and used as a drink. |
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We used the data from the field experiment to estimate recruitment curves for beetle populations on each genotype. |
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Recruitment curves for beetle populations on each soybean genotype were plotted by fitting a Ricker model to the data using likelihood methods. |
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In addition, we have been studying the orthologous genes in the red flour beetle, which has relatively unspecialized mandibulate mouthparts. |
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The preferred diet consists of ant pupae, sawfly larvae, beetles, scarabaeids, longicorn beetle larvae, and the larvae of cossid moths. |
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It would be as if, when Gregor Samsa awoke from his sleep to discover he had become a grotesquely huge beetle, no one was bothered by the change. |
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Spotted asparagus beetle larvae feed mainly on the berries of the female plants. |
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He offers no evidence except to show that a certain type of rove beetle can produce complex behaviour. |
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In continuous corn if beetle counts exceed 0.75 beetle per plant, damaging populations of corn rootworms are possible in that field next year. |
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Like the drugstore beetle the tobacco beetle is also related to the furniture beetle. |
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All of the newly emerged seedlings were consumed and killed by a tenebrionid beetle. |
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When the substantially more nourishing bulk of a full-grown rhinoceros beetle lumbers by this week, be sure to reel it in. |
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I recently interviewed a rhinoceros beetle breeder, Akahane-San, who lives in the town of Takato on the island of Honshu. |
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Scientists have been able to transmit the causative agent of acute leukosis in chickens with this beetle. |
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With so many young cigars throughout the industry, the ubiquitous tobacco beetle has made a return. |
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Japanese beetle traps attract the beasties from miles around, so let your neighbors do the trapping. |
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They appear in the morning and fly over turf in search of beetle grubs or the larvae of other insects. |
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The altricial chicks are fed primarily insects, beetle larvae, grasshoppers, spiders and small lizards. |
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In the old days, we used to meet weekly and ran bingo and beetle drives to raise money. |
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It's a brilliant metallic green beetle, about one-half inch long and about a quarter of an inch wide, so it's pretty good-sized. |
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It is a small, shiny black beetle with four irregular yellow or reddish spots on the back. |
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Also on his page are pictures of a large tenebrionid beetle and a camel spider. |
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This tiger beetle, a common element of the forest fauna, is one of the largest in Trinidad. |
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If beetle counts are below this level, continue sampling until the threshold is exceeded or beetle activity stops. |
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Nationwide, it is hoped the scheme will boost the habitats of species such as the grey partridge, twite, natterjack toad, sandbowl snail and lesser silver water beetle. |
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In 2007, FWS reported that the beetle outbreak had affected only 16 percent of the whitebark pines. |
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The beetle was launched with a series of television commercials unlike any before them. |
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The sago palm weevil, a type of beetle, is eaten, roasted or raw, as a larvae in Southeast Asia. |
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In this particular water, we know that we have small water beetle, you probably have some of the nymphs of the damsel fly, towards the mid stages of production at the moment. |
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She encouraged Darrel to tell her about the beetle as she drew, describing the legs, the wings, and the antennae, in order to ensure an accurate representation. |
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He says species threatened in the forest include the extremely rare Wielangta stag beetle, the swift parrot, Tasmania's wedge-tail eagle and the tiger quoll. |
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Scientists have calculated that the European jewel beetle Melanophila acuminata, about 1 cm. in length, can detect a 25-acre forest fire from 7.5 miles away. |
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The jewel beetle, Melanophila acuminate, is a living fire detector. |
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Classic volkswagen beetle engine deck boot lid raiser for sale. |
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They may sieve tons of earth looking for beetle wing cases or seeds. |
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After the read aloud, the text was extended as children examined pictures of a cricket, a ground beetle, and ladybugs, and they made comments and comparisons. |
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The female beetle lays eggs only where she knows aphids are present. |
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One of the new pests to reach Ohio in recent years is the bean leaf beetle, which has long infested other states, carrying with it bean pod mottle virus. |
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Later, in 2002, the bridal creeper leaf beetle was released. |
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Cereal leaf beetle larvae may defoliate small grain foliage in the spring. |
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The glints of orange fish scales and the gleam of a metallic beetle are some of the few flashes of colour in a predominantly monochromatic palette. |
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Perhaps a different son-in-law might have described her as a senseless, whining, nagging, leather-faced old whitlow, not fit to cohabit with a rhinoceros beetle. |
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Fields remaining below the threshold level throughout the beetle egg-laying period are not expected to have economic populations of rootworms next year. |
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If you were rotten, you might be a vole or an asp or a dung beetle. |
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The most common Egyptian amulet was the scarab, made in the form of a sacred beetle, and this design continued to be used in early Greek and Etruscan work. |
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Sterilization studies allow a more direct, but technically challenging, means to test for effects of microbial associates on bark beetle development and reproduction. |
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I can imagine an intelligent bark beetle pondering why it is that the oak tree on which it has deposited its eggs is so well suited to their growth. |
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The species have decimated pine tree populations in India and are similar to the bark beetle that has ravaged forests in the western United States. |
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Large numbers of pinon pines are dying in the pinon-juniper forests of the Southwest due to a bark beetle outbreak triggered by several years of severe drought. |
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The number of trees dying is expected to increase as the bark beetle infestation spreads, increasing the possibility of more devastating wildfires. |
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We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist. |
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But inspectors were flabbergasted when bayside residents attending a public meeting admitted they had been seeing the beetle for a couple years or more. |
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He then decorates his bower with colourful objects, from flowers and pebbles to berries, shells, and beetle wing cases. |
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Research has confirmed that the beetle can survive in jack pine, putting forests in northern Saskatchewan at risk. |
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If Moody's injury was bad news for Johnson then Wilkinson's display got old beetle brow smiling. |
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Outbreak of rove beetle pustular contact dermatitis in Pakistan among deployed US personnel. |
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When it senses danger, the bombardier beetle fires a scorching spray from its rear abdomen. |
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A MAJESTIC stag beetle has been sighted in Warwickshire for the first time in almost 120 years. |
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Spermatophagy as used by bark beetle researchers denotes species breeding in seeds and the surrounding fruit tissues. |
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A PRIDE of lionesses relax under the Serengeti sun, while a frog hitches a ride on a stag beetle in Costa Rica. |
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The team will also be out and about investigating stories across the UK, such as that of the Sexton beetle. |
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Stag beetle larvae will live in rotting wood for up to six years before emerging as adults. |
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I have used Pediobius wasps for quite effective control of Mexican bean beetle. |
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Blackfly are attracted to nasturtiums, caterpillars often attack canary creeper and lilies are prone to lily beetle. |
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When the beetle is found turned upside down and one flips it over, Thor's favor may be gained. |
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The plastron of a diving beetle is not directly a source of oxygen, but acts as a gill, acquiring oxygen from the surrounding water. |
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The buffalo beetle, the hairy larva of the carpet beetle, is the main bug in the ROM's bug room. |
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Agriculture usually refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant, termite and ambrosia beetle. |
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This could have had a disastrous impact on the Cerambycid beetle populations that depend on recently dead trees for their reproduction. |
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The federally threatened and state endangered Puritan tiger beetle undergoes its entire life cycle on or near these cliffs. |
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Phil Smith noted good numbers of northern dune tiger beetle at Ainsdale's Green Beach, with its unseasonal female snow bunting. |
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Another unwelcome immigrant to North America is the Japanese beetle Popillia japonica. |
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Most serious of the elm pests is the elm leaf beetle Xanthogaleruca luteola, which can decimate foliage, although rarely with fatal results. |
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The preferred arthropods are the millipedes Glomeris marginata and Tachypodoiulus niger as well as the ground beetle Carabus nemoralis. |
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The beetle pontoons were used to hold up the 'Whale' roadway sections, with four of the whales being built at Cairnryan. |
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Another of Snowdonia's famous inhabitants is the Snowdon or rainbow beetle. |
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With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle. |
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These small, slim, gingercoloured larvae are the young stage of the click beetle and cause infuriating tunnelling in the tubers' flesh. |
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John Singer Sargent's painting of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, in a gown decorated with green beetle wings. |
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In the scenario associated with the figures, the task was the prevention of green June beetle damage to a golf course fairway. |
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The effect of male mating history on paternal investment fecundity and female remating in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. |
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Alternative foods for the multicoloured Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis. |
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Among the pests profiled are billbugs, cutworms, green June beetle, mound-building ants on golf courses, and yellow jackets. |
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In America scarlet was created from the cochineal beetle, black from logwood and yellow from quercitron. |
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During the inspection a larder beetle infestation was noted in the dry store and kitchen. |
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A I SUSPECT this a viburnum laurustinus, a type prone to attack by the viburnum beetle. |
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It's a bit more about the pine bark beetle, the same rascal that I mentioned in last month's column. |
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Infestations of the bark beetle have risen drastically since the onset of the drought, rendering trees even more susceptible to fire. |
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Unfortunately, this insect is often incorrectly reported as the pine bark beetle, the pine beetle, or the Rocky Mountain pine beetle. |
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The Bavarian Forest National Park provides a sound data base for long-term investigations of bark beetle infestation spread. |
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The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator. |
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Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all. |
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New Caledonian crows consume a range of foods, but require tools to extract wood-boring longhorn beetle larvae from their burrows. |
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This fourth edition discusses recent high-profile cases such as lead in children's toys and the Asian longhorn beetle epidemic. |
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Species that benefit from this project include the threatened valley elderberry longhorn beetle and numerous neotropical migratory bird species. |
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A very interesting longicorn beetle, Anatolobrium eggeri Adlbauer, 2004, from Turkey. |
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The red palm weevil is a species of snout beetle also known as the Asian palm weevil or sago palm weevil. |
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Other newcomers to the centre include 20 giant thorny stick insects plus fruit beetle grubs, sand lizards and Indian stick insects. |
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During his trek, Dominic also crosses paths with a rhinoceros beetle, a green parrot snake and a highly venomous Brazilian wandering spider. |
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Controls codling moth, citrus thrips, corn earworm, and asparagus beetle, but is gentle to beneficial insects. |
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The asparagus beetle, the most serious insect pest, can be controlled by fall cleanup and tillage which destroys its winter habitat. |
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Also added to the list by the federal government are nine species of snails, four shrubs, three orchids and the Bornemisszas stag beetle. |
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The woman was a client of Jung's and as she recounted the dream during a psychotherapy session, a scarabaeid beetle tapped on the window. |
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Create a Scarab beetle pin, write your name in hieroglyphics and craft your own cartouche. |
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The scarab beetle, a symbol of wealth and power for ancient Egyptians, acts as a motif which runs throughout the range via prints and finishes. |
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I have my eye on an ornate handbag with scarab beetle clasp and a sequin shirt dress. |
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When pressed, though, she offers examples that include the Southwest's scarab beetle Chrysina gloriosa. |
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Rove beetle communities in transgenic Bt and near isogenic maize. |
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Google's animated Earth Day 2014 doodle feature creatures like Moon jellyfish, puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon, Japanese macaque, and the rufous hummingbird. |
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Larvae of the blackspotted pliers support beetle, Rhagium mordax, express antifreeze proteins in their haemolymph during temperate climate winter. |
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The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. |
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Fish and Wildlife Service to address an endangered species, the America burying beetle, in certain counties that the pipeline crosses in Oklahoma. |
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In the UK the insects that cause the most problems are the common furniture beetle, death watch beetle, powder post beetle and the house longhorn beetle plus weevils. |
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Also called Chinese artichokes or chorogis, crosnes look like beetle larvae and taste like water chestnuts, but, in fact, they are tubers, in the mint family. |
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He had some expertise in geology, beetle collecting and dissecting marine invertebrates, but in all other areas was a novice and ably collected specimens for expert appraisal. |
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In North America Harmonia axyridis has become the most abundant lady beetle and probably accounts for more observations than all the native lady beetles put together. |
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The present study aims to design and test a nested PCR system that targets the COI gene in order to identify the RTB from the four other beetles in the bark beetle family. |
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He said that in initial exercises, the dogs were able to tell the difference between carpenter ant droppings and Asian longhorned beetle droppings. |
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The number of known beetle species is 718 species from 63 families. |
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But nature's Knight didn't tell me anything about my carpet beetle larvae. |
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There are many projects including making a stag beetle bucket, growing sunflowers, keeping a nature diary and making a bird house from a flowerpot. |
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There are many fun projects, including making a stag beetle bucket, growing sunflowers, keeping a nature diary and making a bird house from a flowerpot. |
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Heat as a phytosanitary treatment for the brown spruce longhorn beetle. |
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Field colonization of the melaleuca snout beetle in south Florida. |
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A storage bin has been designed in India to remove stored product insects such as rice weevil, lesser grain borer, red flour beetle and saw toothed beetle. |
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Their main pests are slugs, snails and the asparagus beetle. |
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The previous record-holder for fastest speed was the Australian tiger beetle, which topped out at 171 body lengths per second, Science Magazine reported. |
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This lady beetle is unusual because a large portion of its California population migrates to the mountain ranges when aphid populations in the Central Valley drop in summer. |
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Rare tiger beetle wasp discovered at Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire. |
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Another exhibit is a basalt and gold amulet in the shape of a scarab beetle, with a blank space on the back where the buyer's name could be written. |
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A lady beetle that feeds voraciously on the sweet-potato whitefly. |
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Schulze-Makuch speculates that a larger, more complex alien creature, maybe resembling Earth's bombardier beetle, could use these microorganisms as a source of food and water. |
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Famed naturalist Charles Darwin complained of a close encounter with a bombardier beetle in an 1846 letter to English clergyman and naturalist Leonard Jenyns. |
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Research in Spain has suggested that it may be the presence of a triterpene, alnulin, which makes the tree bark unattractive to the beetle species that spread the disease. |
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Its roof was infested with deathwatch beetle, woodworm and dry rot. |
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Spermathecal filling in the rove beetle Drusilla canaliculata. |
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The beetle was accidentally introduced to North America from Europe. |
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Hermione discovers Rita Skeeter is an unregistered Animagus, who can take the form of a beetle, and blackmails her to force her to stop writing her libellous stories. |
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In the space of a few minutes I note ants, spittlebug nymphs, weevils, spiders, snails, slugs, millipedes, worms, beetles, and beetle larvae of all kinds. |
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There's the gravedigging sexton beetle, life and death on the Skerries for a colony of tern chicks, the shenanigans of some frisky deer and some myth-busting about spiders. |
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It is quite a fitful fever-some sleep that little beetle is experiencing. |
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Several parasitic or parasitoidal insects including the fly Eucelatoria, the beetle Chrysolina, and the wasp Aphytis are raised for biological control. |
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