The swamp is home to nesting reed buntings, sedge warblers and grasshopper warblers. |
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The grasshopper warbler is a widely distributed but fairly scarce summer visitor, arriving in May and leaving in August. |
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She backed out of the office barely able to contain herself from skipping and jumping about like some demented grasshopper. |
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Members of the grasshopper family, including crickets, locusts, and katydids, hear with small disks near one of the front leg joints. |
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Historically, the dynamics of grasshopper populations, especially nymphal mortality, have largely been attributed to variations in climate. |
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The insect was later confirmed to be an Egyptian grasshopper, a voracious plant-eater normally found only in the Mediterranean area. |
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A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly. |
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The lowly Zayante band-winged grasshopper is now listed, along with the Ohlone tiger beetle and 184 other spineless creatures. |
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The immature nymphs of hemimetabolous insects such as the grasshopper or cockroach for instance are born with adult-like morphology. |
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The growth stage of grasshopper nymphs can be determined by looking at the size of the individual and the length of the wing pads. |
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As a grasshopper nymph grows, the pads become longer and venation becomes evident. |
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Because blister beetle larvae feed on grasshopper eggs, there is often an increase in areas of high grasshopper populations. |
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These reports of high grasshopper populations are coming later than normal, and most of the reports have been of numerous smaller hopper nymphs. |
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Too much to do, too little done, too many ideas, I keep hopping from one to the other like a demented grasshopper, but slower. |
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These include various lepidopterans and the African grasshopper, which adopt aposematic coloring as a warning. |
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This is one of my favourite arias from one of my favourite oratorios, and a piece I have known since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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Using my keen journalistic observation skills, I note that she would have been only knee-high to a grasshopper during her favourite decade. |
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The creatures look part stick insect, part mantis, with a touch of grasshopper. |
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The 5 bantam hens and one California white hen provide excellent grasshopper and slug control. |
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Thermal conditions in the previous year were strongly associated with grasshopper abundance in this oldfield prairie. |
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She has been helping out and diving from her dad's boat since she was knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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It has also been called grasshopper hawk, killy hawk, house hawk, rusty-crowned falcon, and windhover. |
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It was green, but it wasn't a grasshopper, despite having great big elbowy legs. |
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So she lifted one hand away from the other, and there the grasshopper sat on her open palm. |
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The two traditional insecticides used for grasshopper control in rangeland are malathion and carbaryl. |
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Insect life is increasing rapidly, encouraging birds such as snipe, curlew, grasshopper warbler, sedge warbler, and whinchat. |
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Like Bieber, Assaf was discovered when he was still knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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The fable concerns a grasshopper who spends the warm months singing away while the ant works to store up food for winter. |
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Biotic potentials of less than one mean that the grasshopper populations will decline over time. |
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Having grown up in a house made of prairie mud bricks, unprotected from dust and grasshopper invasions, the inventor dies a millionaire. |
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If Alberta's current leaders are serious about making the transformation from grasshopper to ant they might want to give his report a read. |
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Any problems with dryness could be aggravated by grasshopper forecasts that are also looking to be a concern in those regions this year. |
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Extreme hot spots exist for potential grasshopper outbreaks in the Peace region and the area northwest of Edmonton. |
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The major pests of cassava in Africa are the cassava green mite, the cassava mealybug, and the variegated grasshopper. |
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The fate and impact of many contaminants is complicated by the grasshopper effect. |
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Farmers had sprayed organophosphate insecticides, including the very toxic monocrotophos, to control a grasshopper outbreak. |
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Lockwood's investigation, in the 1990s, of a biocontrol for a crop-destroying grasshopper revealed that it also harmed beneficial grasshoppers, and the project was scuttled. |
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Numerous grasshopper nymphs were noticed in the border of several fields. |
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If the future reneges, people may decide that they might as well be a grasshopper, since the ant gets just as screwed. |
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I haven't been on a bouncy castle since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. |
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Within moments of entering the massive hallway I was separated from my grasshopper companion in a confusion of unfamiliar people and totally lost sight of him. |
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Sutton worked with grasshopper chromosomes, and it was in this paper that he showed that chromosomes occur in distinct pairs, which segregate at meiosis. |
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One grasshopper embryo has a protein that closely resembles hemocyanin in sequence, but no oxygen binding studies to confirm its function have yet been done. |
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In contrast to their grasshopper elders, today's working population is increasingly focusing on ant-like preparations for retirement and starting to prepare at a younger age. |
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This repeating cycle of evaporation, transportation and condensation is known as the grasshopper effect, which allows the transport of mercury over long distances. |
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While the ant had enough in store to last him the famine, the grasshopper was reduced to beggarliness! |
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I fished carefully, used wet flies and dry, all that I had in my book, and even bemeaned myself by baiting a plain hook with a grasshopper. |
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Notoriously hard to see, the grasshopper warbler tends to throw its voice over long distances, while it stays out of sight. |
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The walking habits of a lone Mormon cricket or grasshopper might seem trivial. |
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However, locusts actually are a type of grasshopper, whereas cicadas are more closely related to tiny aphids, leafhoppers, and spittlebugs. |
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The shield-backed grasshopper subfamily, which includes the Mormon and coulee crickets, is brown or gray in colour and lives on the ground or in low vegetation. |
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The reserve will provide new habitat for a range of threatened and declining species including reed bunting and grasshopper warbler. |
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Then in spring, the open areas come alive with skylarks, meadow pipits, grasshopper warblers, cuckoo, curlew and snipe. |
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The most abundant species were grasshopper and Henslow's sparrows as well as eastern meadowlarks and red-winged blackbirds. |
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Birdwatchers can explore the Grasslands Trail, where eastern meadowlarks, horned larks, grasshopper sparrows, and Sprague's pipits seek refuge. |
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Particularly striking examples are the hind legs of orthopteran insects such as grasshopper, which have evolved into specialized jumping legs. |
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Studies evaluating the efficacy of N. locustae against grasshopper and locust species in Cape Verde, Mali, Senegal, South Africa and other African countries have produced variable results. |
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The cheerful green grasshopper pops up from his hiding place. |
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The valve was used in railway locomotives, beam engines, grasshopper engines and paddle steamers and became widely used during the 19th century. |
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Meloids are herbivorous as adults, and their larvae are parasites of bees or eat grasshopper eggs. |
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Pauly warns that farmers should be checking for grasshoppers, especially in sandier soils, since there has been enough heat over the last few weeks to initiate grasshopper hatching. |
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In a number of trials it achieved a more profound kill of various locust and grasshopper species, more selectively than standard chemical insecticides. |
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And nothing recently in the corporate world has fallen quite so spectacularly as Enron, the Houston-based oil-and-gas company that flew so high it made Icarus look like a grasshopper. |
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In the reedy borders there are bird species like the grasshopper warbler, the reed warbler, the bluethroat, and the grebe which have their breeding places there. |
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This provides an important habitat for species such as the grasshopper warbler, bog rosemary and small red damselfly. |
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The volunteers found grasshopper warbler, lesser redpole, chough and kingfisher. |
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Furthermore, areas with similar climate, physiography, land uses, and composition of grasshopper communities but without N. locustae, continue to suffer recurrent grasshopper outbreaks. |
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Sometimes I would cut a reed and tie a line that I carried around in my watch pocket to the whip end of the reed and bait the hook with a worm or a grub or a mayfly or a June bug or a grasshopper and fish for a while. |
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Anatomy, ultrastructure, and functional morphology of the metathoracic tracheal defense glands of the grasshopper Romalea guttata. |
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One of his earliest engines was the grasshopper beam engine. |
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Brush areas near Castaic Lake and Golden Valley are prime for the sage sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, roadrunner and quail, species commonly edged out by development, he said. |
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Among them are the small bordered fritillary butterfly, polecats and birds like the grasshopper warbler, great crested grebe and several species of owl. |
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Bardsey Island Bird Observatory had several 'falls' of warblers last week, including 200 willow warblers on Saturday and 18 grasshopper warblers last Friday. |
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Hidden Kingdoms Series that looks closely at the world of small creatures like the elephant shrew and grasshopper mouse, which can see off venomous scorpions. |
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Nothing too rare so far, but great spotted woodpeckers, wheatears, grasshopper warbler and redstarts at the weekend indicate local and long-distance movements. |
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A shorthorn grasshopper, for example, disguises itself as a leaf while a European nightjar can become perfectly camouflaged within its environment to hide. |
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The reed, sedge and grasshopper warblers can be heard from the reedbeds, and over the grassland the lapwings curlews and oystercatcher lend their voices to the choir. |
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Willow warblers, grasshopper warblers, blackcaps, whitethroats. |
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The grasshopper mouse from dry regions of North America feeds on insects, scorpions, and other small mice, and only a small part of its diet is plant material. |
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