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The flapping wings of the hovering robotic insects (known as ornithopters) are very thin, lightweight and yet strong.

It was fun to lie inside the net reading a favorite magazine while those unpleasant small insects were looking at me helplessly outside.

Once upon a time in a land far far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything. Animals, spiders, insects. . .

This app allows you to touch pictures of animals, vehicles, instruments and insects to hear the noise they make.

He was a very likable chubby little thing, always on his feet climbing up and down, chasing after insects, birds, and me.

With a strong poison spray aimed at a bunch of flying insects, it's easy to imagine several of them falling together at the same time.

As more Europeans followed, they brought a plethora of insects and animal-borne diseases that had not previously existed outside Europe.

The production of drug-resistance in insects is often accompanied with the fitness cost.

It's okay if studying prehistoric insects didn't turn out to be as fascinating as you were originally convinced.

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.

How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects?

Similar experiments with the same kind of results were done with honeybees. These insects also seem to have a special sense of direction.

A young man in a green wool ski cap said that he would be more enthusiastic if he had some beer to wash the insects down.

The insects seemed to come to life, moving up and down, when a handle at the side of box was turned.

One particular Chinese emperor in the Ming Dynasty was a great lover of these insects, and became known as the Cricket Emperor.

For a few days after getting into the water the toad concentrates on building up his strength by eating small insects.

Evolution did not narrowly require that insects fly or swim, only that they somehow move quick enough to escape predators or catch prey.

They scuttled into the fields in hordes, ready to attack the insects attempting to suck the life out of the young rice and cotton plants.

It is sort of a botanical outlaw -- a parasitic plant that steals nutrients from another plant while deceiving insects into pollinating it.

Boric acid has been used to kill other insects including cockroaches, termites and ants inside homes since the middle of last century.

Lemon balm is a fragrant oil that is often used in warding of pests or insects in the garden or in herbal insect repellents .

The heavy silence was now being broken by the fish breaking through the surface as they leaped out of the water for low-flying insects.

Love all of the beings around me that belong to any of the kingdoms: animals, insects, birds, and fish.

It has always been valued for its fragrance and its resistance to insects and grew to be a vital accessory in Hindu rituals.

The geomagnetic orientation is one of the important mechanisms for orientation of insects in the long distance migration.

If aphids, thrips or other insects invade your rose bushes, you may be able to force them off with just a strong spray of water.

ants are a sort of insects which have the great edibleness and officinal value . their uses have been a long history in china.

His red comb was standing up like a king's crown. When he found some insects, he gave them to the hens.

More importantly, it is only one of many other exotic, potentially devastating livestock ailments that could be spread by insects.

More worrying was that the children fell ill more often, and, there seemed to be more insects around lately.

I do not know when to start from a fan blowing the heat up a one-year cicadas disappeared insects.

Clean floor drain outlets at least once a week to prevent putrid air and insects in the soil pipes from entering the premises.

Unsettled, he closed his eyes and hummed a tuneless tune for a while as the sound of night-insects slowly rose about him.

The mosquitoes were unlikely to survive a Dutch winter: the surprise was that tropical insects could flourish in a North Sea summer.

There was no significant difference in CW of cochineal insects derived from different cultivation areas and harvest seasons.

The act of rubbing two body parts together to make a noise is called stridulation, and is seen in insects from grasshoppers to spiders.

Back among the insects, Miller pulls out a drawer with row after row of ranks of iridescent blue Morpho butterflies to illustrate his point.

Off his bike and into the cool water he dived, disappearing below the surface and away from the savage insects.

Guo viewed flies as his mortal enemy and decided to devote the rest of his life to the eradication of the bothersome insects.

Most female insects should have this sort of receptor including the kinds that spread disease and devastate crops .

After a long silence, one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders, worms and a wide assortment of insects.

They also looked for any insects that might have tainted the batch, as well as small stones and pieces of grit from the factory floor.

The flight muscles of insects could not function nearly as effectively without such a quick means of oxygen delivery.

Laura screamed as the insects landed on her clothes and crawled in her hair.

Natural phenomena like droughts, floods, and insects are the bane of every farmer.

And every one of these birds that makes the crossing from India to East Africa eats insects, large insects, the size of dragonflies.

Clusters of aphids underside Clusters of tiny insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

Among insects, same-sex sexual behavior is usually a case of mistaken identity.

More importantly from the birds' perspective, one of the chambers offered a supply of tasty dried insects and a pollen-sugar mixture.

Screen wall is inscribed with insects, fish, vegetation, leading lotus pattern, filled with a strong ethnic flavor.

swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing.

The tiny bird, which is not much bigger than an adult person's thumb, is smaller than some of the insects with which it shares the forest.

Pour equal parts water and white vinegar into a spray bottle. Then spray it on anthills and around areas where you see the insects.

Some insects carry pollen from flower to flower, enabling plants to set the seed in connection with which the fruits develop.

Any of various elongate insects of the order Dermaptera, having a pair of pincerlike appendages protruding from the rear of the abdomen.

Is a kind of simple structure, easy to use, safe and reliable, the price is cheap, easy to popularize collected the trap of insects.

Such circumstances may cause a shift away from traits that lure insects, and enhance those that seduce the wind.

This only strange insects also long six feet, every green, head of the front return long the two root long whisker.

Each night the male Oreophryne embraces the egg mass, possibly to keep it moist or to protect it from small predators like insects.

Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

In this way, we have learned all that we know of the laws of astronomy, or of the habits of the social insects, let us say.

But she added that during the year-long experiment, no flies or other insects were attracted to the food.

But the most valuable work has been done in trying to give protection to men, animals and crops from the injury which insects cause.

And the algorithms that we developed to do insects turned out to be the solution for airbags to do their simulation.

When birds move, the insects or plants they eat often do not, possibly upsetting ecosystems unchanged for thousands of years.

Age slightly larger insects, larvae are browsing mesophyll, leaving only a layer of skin, known as the "open window. "

In their diversity, insects and their relatives have evolved in an array of weapons and a killing ingenuity unmatched in the animal kingdom.

Despite dangers, from insects particularly, the children appear to get sick less often in these fresh-air settings.

Thousands of these black, winged insects cover sidewalks, mailboxes, tree branches, and roofs across certain areas of America.

Photo Gallery: Tropical Rain Forest Wildlife Red-eyed tree frogs, like this one found in a rain forest in Panama, eat mainly insects.

If you think insects have already infiltrated the clothes, high temperatures (as with dry cleaning) will kill the bugs.

an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects.

The pitcher is brightly coloured. Glands on its rim produce sugary nectar, to which insects are attracted.

Arsenic, which occurs naturally in soil and water, is poisonous in large amounts and has been used to kill insects and rats.

Mechanical transmission through other blood sucking insects is possible.

The cage-typed electric-net insect killer can be used all day long, which can widely trap and kill the crops harmful insects.

Pathogen for the mucus of Myxobolus spores insects, of the types in the thousands or more, gill parasite Myxobolus part of it is the gills.

do not have to kill, since geckos can catch insects, it did not harm.

Counting the large animals is usually very easy, but it is difficult when the subjects are a group of birds or insects.

The wound wouldn't hear and got swollen so the doctor had to open up the wound to drain the sore but underneath were little insects' eggs.

and if she touched a twig with her hand, ever so lightly, the brilliant insects fell down around her, like shooting-stars.

Insects are a staple for most frogs, like this young bullfrog munching on a freshly snagged dragonfly.

Widely used for cultivate microbial cell, seed germination, seed testing, and the cultivation of plants, insects and small animals breeding.

He stopped looking for insects and went to the pond at the end of the garden fence.

Botany Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them; insectivorous.

Animals Don't Have Sleep Problems: Insomnia occurs in animals and insects, too, sort of.

Phosphine (PH3) is one of the best fumigant, widely recognized as the performance control stored product insects.

It's important to be able to recognize dangerous insects to protect yourself and your family during your outdoor summer excursions.

It was Dr Thornhill who, a little over a decade ago, took an observation he originally made about insects and dared to apply it to people.

Capable of trapping insects or other small organisms and absorbing nutrients from them; insectivorous .

Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

So, trees, very boring flowers, not really trying to attract insects.

But I can tell you that everyone of you is eating insects, without any exception.

Clusters of tin insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves .

Within a few days of hatching, cygnets venture from the nest to forage for aquatic plants and insects.

We have been brought up to fear insects. we regarded them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.

While the dentist washed his hands, he saw the crumbling ceiling and a dusty spider web with spider's eggs and dead insects.

When insects bite genetically modified Bt corn and cotton, they get a mouthful of a built-in toxin, produced by every cell of the plant.

Alright, we swear, this is the last time we'll mention that you've been eating insects for a good majority of your life.

This had a short enough pulse duration to eliminate motion blur for the camera but wasn't hot enough to cause the insects to overheat.

The bamboo can come back if it is completely dry and incapable of propagation and, in the case of this shipment, all the insects are dead.

We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.

Despite its proficiency as a fisher, the long-fingered bat mostly eats aquatic insects during certain seasons, the team said.

Insects as the largest on earth has not been fully utilized the resources of the treasure-house and has drawn greater attention.

At the largest, global scale, there appears to be substantial variation associated with the hemisphere in which insects are found.

Insects buzzed around her, lazy dragonflies and glistening green wasps and stinging midges almost too small to see.

When a swarm is detected, the scientists will scoop up a few dozen insects and glue little reflectors on their backs.

Everyone stood up in the tent, fascinated by the buzzing made by these giant insects.

The insects filled a cavity as large as I was. It was a gray, cool autumn day and all the bees were home, now agitated by the surgery.

Carmine is made, literally, from ground-up cochineal insects, which is just a more harrowing way of saying mashed red beetles.

Most fireflies are winged, which distinguishes them from other luminescent insects of the same family, commonly known as glowworms.

The new study found that Bt cotton, also known as transgenic cotton, does not affect the biodiversity of insects in cotton fields.

I love that afraid of the dark, ghosts, afraid of heights, fear of insects, Wu Geng Lin.

The battle started after the discovery, the enemy is highly destructive insects monster.

Insects outline animals except having the common characteristics of macro-arthropods outside, still some characteristics of its own.

If you want to feed a lot of people, insects are the best choice in terms of getting the biggest bang for your buck.

Thought, as though the soil of fertilizer badly, but no stones and debris, it may not insects.

Today, many vegetables are not grown in gardens but in greenhouses where they are protected from the wind, rain and insects.

The purposeful collective activity of ants and other social insects does, indeed, look intelligent on the surface.

The sand storm also frequently patronizes Zhengzhou, everywhere yellow sand on the likely innumerable only yellow insects, blocks the sky.

As we wake up to climate change and resource depletion, though, interest in how insects manage their built environments is reawakening.

At the bottom of each slippery-sided leaf is a pool of water into which unlucky insects fall and drown.

Humans born into the world are like ephemeral insects on an old tree, like a drop of water in the ocean.

I would hate to think of Max, with his fierce intelligence and tenacity, reduced to sending mute signals by way of insects.

I grew up capturing insects and watching PBS, always questioning the complexities of how the body works.

White spots near the cross are not the defect of a camera, it's a bunch of insects flying around it.

In a pair of support is muddy, is a sweet water when the thirst, is a guide to the crossroads of arrows, is tired, a ChunLei of insects.

They have found that bees cannot make an enzyme that other insects use to help eliminate toxins from the body.

The flying insects do not miss ah Operations Guide: mouse control can be a!

If confirmed, BU will be the only known mycobacterial disease to be transmitted by insects.

In fact, at least 1, 400 species of insects are eaten around the world, and the practice dates back thousands of years.

A tubular structure, usually concealed but sometimes extending outside the abdomen, with which many female insects deposit eggs.

When my grandson Tommy and I entered our vacation cabin, I kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects.

However, it has been pointed out that wormwood and calamus contain volatile oil, which can be used to kill insects and avoided diseases.

I can think of bites of an animal to another animal or man. and I believe insects carry diseases, too.

After spending a week learning about insects and arachnids in 7th grade, it became my goal to become an "arthropod expert. "

They also have long pedipalps, which function as sense organs similar to insects' antennae and give the appearance of the two extra legs.

Zinc borate also can be used for anti-corrosion, far infrared absorption, biocontrol insects and wood processing, and other fields.

'Bees are very very important insects to BayerCropScience, ' he said.

Insects that sound, with a singing nightingale is only really a beautiful music.

The bug is always on a hunt for food, so place out some insects and she will immediately eating them and grow big.

Yes, now there was no wood, no insects. How would they make their living?

In regions with lots of insects, and a greater risk of death by microbe, plants tended to be much hotter.

Through breeding, the altered insects would gradually replace the population of mosquitoes capable of becoming infected with the parasite.

He also thinks such a boost can provide livelihoods and protect forests where many wild insects are collected.

Several species, including some insects, spiders and even birds, orientate themselves by the plane of the sun's rays.

Barak makes most of her income by showing off her plants, which eat everything from insects and reptiles to small mammals and schnitzel.

They are capable of spitting water at insects that are close to the water, making the prey fall into the water where it is eaten.

But there was little to hear aside from the trilling hum of insects and frogs.

They were so close in fact that the team suspects it may have taken just one or two founder insects to start an entire infestation.

With hard work, he did quite well. And, in the countryside around Cambridge, he was able to shoot, fish and collect insects.

Do not lumber my shelf up with your collection of stones and insects .

The preying mantis preys upon other insects just like the centipede and poisons them until they cannot move and then devours them.

Nigel weighs less than a pea and is in constant danger of becoming a meal for bigger insects.

As you get closer, the hue becomes a wriggling mass; a giant cap of insects on every tree, devouring the tiny leaves.

In entomology, the sexually immature form of insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis (e. g. , grasshoppers).

If the garden is overrun with insects or birds, then there is probably an energetic overrun within yourself, the household or community.

He excelled at plants and insects, but did not use precise brushwork . He often used a reed or a stalk of wheat as his brush.

But researchers have had trouble creating the materials needed to make robots that look and behave like real insects.

The ability of today's insects to skim the surface of water is thought to be a modern invention.

I can have longer time to walk in the quiet road, need not to think too much, have time to listen to the whistling of insects.

A spokesman said the insects released were not carrying malaria.

Coniine, an alkaloid drug narcotic to insects, has been discovered in the nectar-like secretions of at least S. flava.

It is quite natural when you shoot macro shots of insects and plants, but to try to make a picture of the eye?

These brightly coloured insects flit about above the surface of the water.

Habituation of pest insects to repellents or insecticides may significantly reduce the effects of these control agents.

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Entomologists, people who study insects, think the flashing light is an invitation to have sex.

The flower's smell, said to be a cross between burnt sugar and rotting flesh, is designed to attract insects for pollination.

On erect branches, lac insects distributed around the branch, but on most decline branches, lac insects only settled on shaded parts.

A pincer like pair of movable appendages at the posterior end of the abdomen in certain insects, such as earwigs.

process in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual; common among insects and some other arthropods.

It is now known that apparent competition is as important as resource-mediated competition, especially for phytophagous insects.

Yet recent declines in the population of these essential insects threaten the lucrative agricultural industry.

The crow spent the day turning over cow dung patties, so he could gobble up the worms and insects he found there.

Some insects, like the water strider, are able to stand and move on top of water because of surface tension.

Remember, some insects can bite through clothing if it lies closely against the skin.

They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom.

Without modern technology, a small pond could be an amazing world filled with strange and beautiful plants, insects, birds, and animals.

The cardo is the first or proximal piece, and, in many insects, is the only portion directly attached to the head.

The liquid is fatal to small insects and creatures and can be very painful to humans.

The EPA, he added, continues to collect Bt crop data-but so far without evidence of "unreasonable adverse effects" on insects in the field.

The dense foliage is thick with disease-carrying insects, parasites and persistent fungi capable of crippling machinery and people alike.

The time-consuming chore can throw up interesting challenges: from finding a suitable method for counting thousands of tiny insects. . .

Soil fumigants are extensively used to control nematodes, weeds, soil-borne pathogen, and insects for planting of high value cash crops.

The inspector inputted the information of the insects into a computer.

But unlike insects that often fall prey to reptiles, scientists have observed one particular species of bug eating snakes and a turtle.

Host-plants are one of the important factors that they affect significantly the cold hardiness of insects.

The insects take in oxygen and, inside special cells, combine it with a substance called luciferin to produce light with almost no heat.

Small plants like those can catch insects. but a few larger ones can even catch small animals.

In the UK, the sale of insects for human consumption is part of what is still a niche food sector centred largely around novelty snacks.

The painting shows melting clocks, insects, and a dead tree in an empty landscape.

Sometimes we go to far away, one to a pond, we were sitting in an abandoned cement boat before it left the right place, we all were Insects.

Holograms whirled around his head like angry insects.

He had no family or friends, indeed no one knew he was there at all, except the insects.

Insects evolved hardened eggs and with them a special appendage, an ovipositor, which some use to sink their eggs into the tissue of Earth.

A vacuum device then sucks the insects into a net or cylinder where they dehydrate and die, or the insects fly into an adhesive strip.

Simple solar dryers, constructed from a wooden frame covered with plastic, let the light in, keep insects out and use natural convection.

While insects can be easily overlooked, they are nonetheless essential to life on earth, as they decompose nutrients and aerate the soil.

She was first hired to step on fruits as a part-time job. Then she switched to fish, insects and small animals.

As it sprawled wallowing in the quag, clouds of stinging insects rose and buzzed about it in the air.

Nice top of the mountain, but the pity thing was that there were too many flies and other different insects, too bad. . .

Look around here, everything up here is some sort of raw meats, insects.

Enormous lizards called dinosaurs dominated the land, emerging alongside the earth's first flowers, birds and new civilisations of insects.

In the scheme of medicine having as main driving force the survival of the self, patients referrd to as insects are very far from the self.

on the land , insects like termites have tame bacteria living in their gut to digest wood , and slime moulds can engulf bacteria whole.

The evening wondering insects are seeking every possible ray of light, which, even though bean-sized, for them simply equaled the sun.

A tarantula will sometimes kill a small animal like a snake, frog, or bird, but crickets, beetles, and other insects are more typical prey.

the lower bottom is provided with a movable bait box, the bait box is provided with the bait attracting the harmful insects.

Insects are the primary food for many birds during the winter, and rainfall largely determines the amount of insects available.

So island beasts and insects often grow or shrink to fill ecological roles that otherwise would be filled by entirely different species.

That will allow individual insects to be tracked, in order to see if they behave as Dr Buhl predicts.

The method of immersing the insects in extract was used to determine insecticidal activity.

Instead, they are used to get some insects to come to the plant to help control harmful insects.

As do all insects, a butterfly has a hard outer covering, called it an exoskeleton, that both supports and protects the body.

I also like playing basketball, enjoying bathing in the sun rays and observing some plants and insects.

When he was in midschool, some of his classmates also like eat insects.

Let's get back to teamwork. These strong, motivated, well-organized insects have an amazing ability to work together for a common goal.

Often mistaken for insects, spiders actually belong to a different classification of creatures, called arachnids .

"We have to eat less meat or find an alternative, " said Dicke, who claims to sit down to a family meal of insects on a regular basis.

Substances conveying plant resistance to insects include inorganics , primary and intermediary metabolites and secondary substances .

Wind, flowing water and falling rain dominated the soundscape . Gradually insects, then mammals, could be heard again.

Once the parasites have had time to breed in the mosquitoes, the insects are killed and dissected under a microscope.

INSECTICIDES FOR FLYING INSECTS. PERMANENT INSECTICIDE DISTRIBUTOR. DETERMINATION OF THE EFFICIENCY RATING AND THE REGULARITY RATING.

These insects live in a variety of warm environments, as well as in more temperate regions, and are a familiar sight on summer evenings.

Plants and insects can be so passionate and enjoying their lives, why we human beings can't?

The insects are tracheate arthropods in which the body is divided into head , thorax and abdomen .

Banned in many countries wordwilde, endosulfan is widely used in the control of a large variety of insects and mites in crops.

Thus it is only a matter of when, not if, some insects develop resistance to Bt.

The worker ants hide in the holes of this death trap with their mouths open wide, waiting for locusts, butterflies or other insects to land.

But the U. N. 's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is asking consumers to consider another option: eating insects.

Studies of colour-blind capuchin monkeys show they are able to catch more insects per hour than their non-colour-blind cousins.

any of several small Indo-Australian freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water.

Solar Terms: the Beginning of Spring, Rain Water, the Waking of Insects, the Spring Equinox, Pure Brightness, Grain Rain.

They said insects can be a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals, and eating insects would reduce the consumption of meat.

larva n. pl. lar. vae; The newly hatched, wingless, often wormlike form of many insects before metamorphosis.

Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.

Recent research shows partially overlapping signal transduction pathways controlling responses to wounding, insects, and pathogens.

Molting and metamorphosis are the typical developmental characters in holometabolous insects.

A similar structure in which fish, insects, or other animals deposit eggs or keep their young.

The only thing capable of affecting our mood then and there is the chorus by insects.

Moreover, unlike some of the other insects-eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.

Toxicological and electrophysiological studies have demonstrated the presence of Kdr-type resistance in many pyrethroid-resistant insects.

In other words, the long antennae help these insects to "smell" what's going on in their environment.

Holiday and Christmas Decorations, Mushroom, Birds, Butterflies, Insects, Roosters , Easter Decorations.

Firstly, insects cannot be part of a vegan diet and are probably the key source of B12 in most primate diets.

E. G. . She heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects.

sometimes , insects will crawl into the ears to cause discomfort , which will result in temporary loss of the sense of hearing.

The famous sights in this area are the Entomological12 Society Museum, with an excellent collection of Egyptian insects and birds.

Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects.

"the first daughter did not expect Jan eyes, quickly said: " Mum, you are old and so on, and I also catch insects to eat you!