For many years only animals such as worms, leeches and midge larvae could survive. |
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For the past ten minutes I'd been watching two tiny worms crawl their way across the front step. |
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The wriggling worms had done a great transformation job on my fruit and veg waste. |
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A simple worm grader, run by an electric motor, separates the worms from the dirt. |
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The garter snakes mentioned in the letter generally eat frogs, worms, mice and smaller snakes. |
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They eat little worms and little insects and things, and they're a neat little animal. |
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They seem to eat more annelid worms and insects than any other prey, and chicks are fed mostly earthworms. |
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All of this is stored in a little rucksack along with a tin of luncheon meat, pot of worms, a few other creepy crawlies and half a loaf of bread. |
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Before tea time I moved around the lake and swapped some worms for maggots from a local angler. |
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Their main prey tends to be polycheate worms, such as lugworm, which are incredibly numerous in shallow water. |
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After the plague of viruses and worms, the main security issues of 2003 were identity theft, spam, keyboard loggers and social engineering. |
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Think of composting and worms immediately come to mind, not to mention such unsettling concepts as decay and rot. |
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We controlled army worms by doing a two-ring perimeter around the fairway instead of spraying the whole fairway. |
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Onychophora, also known as velvet worms or lobopods, are considered segmented and close relatives of the Arthropoda. |
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We are seeing root feeding from root worms, some of which are nearing maturity, while some are still hatching. |
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White worms are easy to raise. A plastic shoebox from the dollar store will meet the needs of most aquarists. |
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By questioning the validity of the scientific method, the new approach to science education opens up a can of worms. |
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We fished together, in rowboats, off riverbanks and bridges, in rivers and lakes, with worms and fish eggs, and lures and flies. |
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Track-suited women riffled through the mounds of wild mushrooms, checking for tiny worms. |
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Beneath loosely embedded rocks hide the brittle stars, ribbon worms and slithery, clinging fish called blennies. |
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Many thought this too lenient a punishment for a teenager who had created the world's most prolific computer worms. |
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Bedding is necessary for worms to burrow, bury food scraps, and also for moisture retention. |
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If reptiles could develop into birds then annelid worms could develop into insects. |
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They typically eat insects and floating vegetable matter but their diet also includes zooplankton, aquatic insect larvae, and worms. |
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Coleoidea, Crustaceans, nudibranch mollusks and polychaete worms make up a large part of the larger zooplankton. |
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We are all surrounded by zillions of bacteria, fungi, worms, insects and predators out looking for an easy meal. |
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Hackers gain secret control of the computers by sending e-mail viruses and worms or by planting software code on web sites. |
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Many birds of prey were hopping around on the ground, eating grubs and worms, unable to fly because of the lack of thermals. |
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In his head, Stewart plunged down hurtling depths and into inky water alive with worms and bones. |
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We test white mice and worms in labs and we do experiments on sheep and monkeys. |
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To be really sure you've deleted Microsoft worms and viruses, you've got to reformat the disk before restoring from backup. |
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Tim Power, a Kilkenny newsagent who operates a small cybercafe, has reformatted his computers after finding them loaded with Internet worms. |
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Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again. |
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All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home. |
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Most of these worms give up on the worminess after they realize that it takes some of the glory out of the game by playing wormy. |
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But I think I will just transfer some of the worms from my existing wormery. |
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Finally, add the worms, usually redworms, which are widely available for sale. |
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Discovered in 1983, these tiny worms have a spiny head, and so resemble the kinorhynchs to which they are related. |
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She first did some research work in Naples on certain marine worms that live in the kidneys of sea birds. |
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For the statistical analysis, we compared the number of worms eaten by minnows to an expected random distribution using a Wilcoxon test. |
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Other prey, such as bristle worms, razor shells and tellins are also taken when available. |
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Therefore if the dog owner is responsible and regularly worms their dog, this serious problem will not occur. |
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Working in the security field, many of us know people who are regularly infected with viruses, worms, Trojans. |
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Over the past year our virtual mailboxes have been swamped by spam, worms, and malignant viruses. |
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In this day and age of backdoors, worms, trojans and other sneak attacks, you never know who's watching. |
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This would help identify and flush out infiltrating viruses, worms, trojans and other malicious softwares. |
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They are known to eat cabbage moths, bollworms, tomato hornworms and broccoli worms. |
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I snacked on sticky rice cooked in bamboo, but there were more exotic treats such as crickets, bamboo worms and bee larvae available. |
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They do not seem to favor soft foods like mealworms or flour worms, but providing them improves breeding success. |
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She did not sustain any serious damage in the Baltic Sea where the water is too cold for ship worms to survive. |
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Other experiments have involved organisms that are less closely related to us yet easier to study, such as vinegar worms and fruit flies. |
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So infecting allergy suffers with parasitic worms could reduce their symptoms. |
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Garlic helps prevent and eliminate infections as well as destroys parasites, worms and viruses in addition to stimulating the immune function. |
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Wrapped in fleecelike mantles of bacteria, the worms live in papery tubes, which they burrow into the sides of deep-sea geysers. |
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Other typically much larger organisms, including parasites such as lice, worms and scabies can also spread from person to person. |
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Did you know, for example, that in 17 th-century England, at least 80 per cent of the population had various kinds of internal parasitic worms? |
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Bracken is cultivated commercially in America, Canada and Brazil as a remedy for bronchitis and parasitic worms. |
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Apart from TB, the staff also discovered diseases resulting from unhygienic conditions, including diarrhea and intestinal worms. |
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But they have eye infections and all the other health risks associated with dirty water such as malaria and intestinal worms. |
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Consuming contaminated meat can lead to diarrhoea, intestinal worms or food poisoning and is especially dangerous for the very young or very old. |
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The research is based on knowledge that more than a third of the world's population harbor one or more of various types of intestinal worms. |
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They range in size from microscopic single-cell organisms to parasitic worms that can grow to several feet in length. |
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Have your dogs and cats treated regularly for worms, especially when they're young. |
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Parasitic worms have evolved with their human hosts over thousands of years, and as successful parasites, do not kill their hosts. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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The cassowary pecks the ground, gobbling fat worms with quick chops of its beak. |
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Here they found three stills, two still heads and two worms, with five barrels of wash ready for distillation, and a quantity of yeast. |
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In The Temple of Doom, Indy walks through a chamber filled with mantises, beetles, worms, millipedes, moths, slugs, snails, and puppy dog tails. |
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The puppy has a gut infection, mange, a severe skin problem, worms, fleas and ear mites. |
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His temples burned and his sores itched, like a thousand worms underneath his skin, crawling and burrowing deeper, ever deeper inside him. |
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Frogs, toads, lizards and foot-long slow worms are common in the area, as well as poisonous adders. |
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Viruses and worms can even spread by sending themselves out via email to the names listed in the email address books of infected computers. |
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This procedure allows visualization of adherent bacteria in the living worms. |
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Discover the survival techniques of whelks, worms, wentletraps, and other marine creatures. |
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The male fern is one of the most popular and effective treatments for tape worms. |
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Hence the need of taking time by the forelock and getting rid of the worms before they get in their work. |
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The crows working in harmony with nature lived on the snails, worms, beetles and insects. |
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This is probably due to the general unhealthiness of worms grown at high temperatures. |
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When feeding is completed, the worms drop to the ground and enter the soil where they transform into shiny brown pupae. |
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In about 3 months the worms should have changed the bedding and food wastes into compost. |
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The annelids include earthworms, polychaete worms, and leeches. |
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Definitely a few unpleasant characters, like parasitic worms, which we deliberately and with good reason evicted. |
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When you crush an insect, you have all these long worms uncoiling from the belly. |
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Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms. |
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They include such things as spiders, leeches, millipedes, pill bugs, flatworms, mites, beetles, and water dwellers such as water scorpions and nematode worms. |
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Fish are subject to a variety of maladies, such as grubs or worms, which may be found in or on the skin, attached to gills, or embedded in the flesh. |
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Many of those could be basic life forms, such as worms and jellyfish. |
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They also feed on small crayfish, minnows, tadpoles, worms, and insects. |
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Hemp seed, sweet corn maggots and even worms can also be used. |
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Parasitic worms may be the commonest cause of chronic infection in humans. |
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Garlic also helps knock out intestinal worms and other parasites. |
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Best baits are redworms, which can be trundled down to the fish in a natural manner, or alternatively often-overlooked baits such as caterpillars, wax worms, or mealworms. |
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And if, heaven forfend, that other guy worms his way into office again, we're really going to have to work together to defend the beloved republic. |
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By the end of that year you could plug a Windows system into the Internet and be infected with a dozen worms before you even had a chance to download the latest updates. |
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I smiled back and led him to the kitchen, where Adam was emptying out bags of gummy worms and bears, and Athena was putting the sodas into our wine cooler. |
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If you had a phobia about worms, you may not rush out and buy a wormery, but you're also not going to flee screaming from the garden at the sight of a worm. |
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The newly seeded alfalfa has plant bugs and potato leafhoppers and established alfalfa has army worms, alfalfa loopers, thistle caterpillars, and variegated cut worms. |
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A man who claimed to love animals allowed a pony to suffer neglect in a field where it became ridden with lice and worms, with little food or water. |
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And those animals had too few worms to pose a public health risk, he says. |
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From alfalfa weevil larvae and adults to army worms, cloverworms, cutworms, and alfalfa caterpillars to all sorts of aphids, some form of pest seems to be almost everywhere. |
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All day long, the tailorbirds forage for worms to feed their chick, which often turns out to be a plaintive cuckoo that's been left in their nest. |
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He and the crew have had to subsist on maggoty hardtack, cold gruel, and a slimy block of cheese that has become host to a most foul-tasting clutch of worms. |
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The Kingdom Animalia, from sponges to elephants, velvet worms to octopuses, mud dragons to tardigrades, is the best studied and most widely appreciated of the kingdoms. |
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I ate the staple corn paste sadza every day and tasted fried mopane worms. |
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I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another. |
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When the carpet layers came in and removed the carpet she said there were millions of black eggs and tiny worms crawling under the carpet. |
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In order to strengthen the rearing of tusser worms, extensive plantation of Saja and Arjun plants will be undertaken by the forest department. |
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Scolecodonts are the partly organic, fossil remains of the jaw apparatus, a tooth-like structure, of eunicid polychaete annelid worms. |
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Echiuran worms and sipunculids were identified by the presence of chetae in the digestive tract. |
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Most of the flat worms are predatory and some are relatively brightly marked. |
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If someone gets a promotion that might not be deserved, it could open up a whole can of worms with the other employees. |
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Moonrats are a lowland forest species which feed primarily on worms and arthropods. |
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It supports a rich invertebrate fauna, mainly consisting of polychaete worms, mollusks, and brachyuran crabs. |
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Under the cover story of Tippy having worms and going to live on a farm, Johnny gave Tippy to his goomah, Fran, whose son renamed him Freckles. |
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They're called brandling worms and you can even buy them, but in a good heap they'll turn up on their own. |
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The scientists noted that the worms strongly preferred the metaldehyde or iron pellets to other forms of the bait. |
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I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water. |
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With crumbly dirt crust and a few pink worms peeking out, the pie looked totally gagworthy! |
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Cabbage worms, a lesser problem, can be combated with the caterpillar-destroying bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis, alone or with row covers. |
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Planted among early cole crops, sage helps repel the cute little yellow butterflies that produce cabbage worms. |
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To protect plants from aphids and cabbage worms, cover seedlings with floating row covers. |
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Control aphids with insecticidal soap, apply Bacillus thuringiensis at the first sign of cabbage worms, and bait for slugs. |
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Acanthocephalans are dioecious pseudocoelomate worms remarkably adapted to a parasitic lifestyle in that there is no mouth or digestive system. |
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So far, experiments with yeast, worms, flies, spiders, fish and rodents all have shown the antiaging power of severely restricting calories. |
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While they were digging in the soil they spotted worms and decided to collect some of them and put them in a wormery. |
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Italian D'Acampo had to eat the foul fare, plus rhino beetles, a witchety grub and meal worms to win a slap-up dinner for his fellow campers. |
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The Gobstopper Potion Mix A DEVILISHLY delicious witches' brew of candy treats, including worms, bats, turtles and foam mushrooms. |
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In the autumn, both adults and juveniles relied more on crustaceans, with also a marked increase in the presence of sipunculid worms. |
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Red worms or red wigglers will turn those banana peels and apple cores into rich compost that can be used next spring. |
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Also known as red wigglers, the worms busily break down table scraps and produce a fertile soil amendment for the garden and potted plants. |
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I used to have an old chest freezer that I used to raise red wiggler worms. |
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In the first, a specialist on sipunculid worms was asked for copies of his publications by an Alaskan cod fisherman. |
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The threads of screws, when bigger than can be made in screw plates, are called worms. |
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The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits. |
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For example, small changes in temperature can substantially alter the transmission of lung worms and muscle worms pathogenic to ungulates. |
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For example, in South Africa mopane worms are eaten by the bushmen, and in China silkworms are considered a delicacy. |
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The night crawlers, red wigglers or gray worms are just a few representatives of a large group of earthworms. |
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The other members of the Lophotrochozoa are the annelid worms and seven marine phyla. |
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Granulomatous inflammation and fibrosis occurred in association with dead worms and, occasionally, atretic follicles. |
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Sirtuin was first discovered to extend life span in yeast and later discovered to extend the life span of nematode worms and fruit flies. |
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A PET lover opened a can of worms when a tin of cat food exploded, showering her with maggots. |
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All feature colorful stands filled with everything from eggplants, figs, herbs and potato kugel to gummy worms and chocolate bars. |
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Its preferred habitat is scrub and gardens and it feeds on insects, worms, slugs, snails, newts and small rodents. |
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The intended target audience for the game are teens, grown-ups, book worms, puzzle lovers, love birds and renouncers alike. |
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If oxygen depletion progresses to hypoxia, fish kills can occur and invertebrates like worms and clams on the bottom may be killed as well. |
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Many apparently unique taxa of nematode worms have also been recently discovered on abyssal plains. |
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Juveniles will eat nestling mammals, small lizards and frogs as well as worms and spiders. |
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Other faunal groups, such as the polychaete worms and isopod crustaceans, appear to be endemic to certain specific plains and basins. |
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It feeds on small mammals, birds, lizards, and amphibians, and in some cases on spiders, worms, and insects. |
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They are carnivorous and, because they feed on slugs and worms, they can often be found in long grass and other damp environments. |
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Contrary to the popular notion of snakes being slimy because of possible confusion of snakes with worms, snakeskin has a smooth, dry texture. |
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Ducks eat a variety of food sources such as grasses, aquatic plants, fish, insects, small amphibians, worms, and small molluscs. |
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The common shrew's carnivorous and insectivorous diet consists of insects, slugs, spiders, worms, amphibians and small rodents. |
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The Tsimane are continually exposed to soil-dwelling parasitic worms called helminths, such as hookworm and roundworm. |
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Lobsters are omnivores and typically eat live prey such as fish, mollusks, other crustaceans, worms, and some plant life. |
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Some of the most important farm-level diseases are caused by liver flukes and several species of gastrointestinal worms. |
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They forage for any food source they can find with marine worms, shellfish and dead fish all making up the diet of pouting. |
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The front part of the worms body penetrates the body of the cod until it enters the rear bulb of the host's heart. |
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The worms accumulate natural estrogen excreted in human waste and estrogenlike compounds from plastics manufacturing. |
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Malicious codes take various forms, including viruses, Trojan horses, worms and or logic bombs. |
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Mammals and birds which survived the extinction fed on insects, larvae, worms and snails, which in turn fed on dead plant and animal matter. |
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In modern oceans lophophorate worms are represented by non-biomineralizing phoronids which dwell in mucus tubes. |
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The young eat fish eggs, mollusks, jellyfish, small invertebrates, worms, sponges, algae, and crustaceans. |
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Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopus, worms, and other cuttlefish. |
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Doctors found that the man loves sashimi and that was the reason behind him being infected with worms. |
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Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, starfish, crustaceans, marine worms, and most fish. |
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Mud can provide a home for numerous types of animals, including varieties of worms, frogs, snails, clams, and crayfish. |
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Among lesser phyla of invertebrates are the Hemichordata, or acorn worms, and the Chaetognatha, or arrow worms. |
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Turtles in the Sea of Cortez have been observed feeding on tube worms, sea hares, jellyfish and other slow-moving, soft-bodied sea creatures. |
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Other invertebrates include the Nemertea or ribbon worms, and the Sipuncula. |
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Also known as 'cestodes', these parasites are flat, segmented worms that live in the small intestine of cats. |
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Invertebrate paleontology deals with fossils of invertebrates such as molluscs, arthropods, annelid worms and echinoderms. |
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Food supplies were frequently in terrible condition, infested with mould, weevils, worms, and maggots. |
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Many types of seaweed, sponges, worms, seajellys and more are also found. |
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These included a knee protector and a net used to catch Palolo worms. |
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American robins also eat insects, as well as worms and other foods. |
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A study performed by Sitko and Heneberg in the Czech Republic between 1962 and 2013 suggested that central European grey herons host 29 species of parasitic worms. |
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Common natural baits for both fresh and saltwater fishing include worms, leeches, minnows, frogs, salamanders, octopus, squid, insects and even prawn. |
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Bacillus thuringiensis is now used to control gypsy moths, tent caterpillars, leaf rollers, canker worms, and other pests that attack garden plants, corn, and other crops. |
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You'll need two 8-to-10-gallon plastic storage tubs with lids, a drill, newspaper, a large piece of cardboard, four bricks, garden dirt, and a pound of red wiggler worms. |
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Herrings are a prominent converter of zooplankton into fish, consuming copepods, arrow worms, pelagic amphipods, mysids, and krill in the pelagic zone. |
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I mean, who could have ever guessed that a healthy young fella would commence barfing and then die after ingesting a couple of pounds of live roaches and worms? |
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Wolves can carry over 30 roundworm species, though most roundworm infections appear benign, depending on the number of worms and the age of the host. |
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Conversion of the water soluble mercuric cation to the water insoluble mercuric sulfide salt can significantly reduce the uptake of Hg by Lumbricus worms. |
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For example, the research suggests Markuelia has closest affinity to priapulid worms, and is adjacent to the evolutionary branching of Priapulida, Nematoda and Arthropoda. |
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In a composter small enough for even the tiniest studio apartment, red wiggler worms, widely available online, process food waste, which is then cured and used to enrich soil. |
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These pests include viruses as well worms, Trojan horses, spyware, scareware, ransomware, phishing and more, all colorfully named but seriously dangerous. |
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There are also indications that worms evolving into a kind of cyberweapon. In a recent series of attacks between US and Chinese hackers, a worm was used. |
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Adults emerge from their burrows at night to feed on worms and fish. |
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Questioning the decision would definitely open a can of worms. |
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In preliminary studies, Shu Degan of Xian Northwest University places Yunnanozoon in another phylum, the hemichordates, which includes the modern acorn worms. |
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But for two pins I'd hand in blank papers and tell school where to shove Pythagoras triangles and Lord of the Flies and their life cycles of worms. |
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When you remove a shovelful of earth, worms will wriggle out of it. |
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Sometimes, slow worms are taken, and even weasels and moles. |
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Polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox, small pox, influenza, diphtheria, tetanus, typhoid, whooping cough, trench mouth, milk fever, goiters, warts and worms. |
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The northwest plains were the home of deep-sea enteropneust acorn worms. |
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