They respond to chemicals associated with mating and egg-laying of insects as well as insect footsteps, insect saliva, and vibrations caused by insect chewing.
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It was my first time tasting the insect, or any insect for that matter.
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"There's as much variety in origin ideas for insect wings as in insect wings themselves," he said.
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While regulations are clear about insect food sales, they're more like guidelines for insect food and feed production.
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THE INSECT apocalypse may not be imminent, but the decline of insect species is still a concern, says our correspondent.
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Overuse of pesticides has decimated our insect populations, which has led to the sharp decline of the aerial insect-feeding birds.
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InsektKBH has also received 600,000 kroner from the Innovation Fund to expand and market the insect juice and future insect products.
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Almost half of all insect species are facing population decline, the researchers found, with a third of all insect species now endangered.
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The products are all about mosquito repellents, including: - Zika Shield: mosquito nets; particularly nets adapted to be mounted onto an umbrella - Zika Screen: insect screens for use in building construction - Zika Trap: insect traps - Bye Bye Zika: mosquito repellent coils - Anti Zika: cedar wood for use as an insect repellent; insect repellent tags for pets; mosquito repellent incense - Zika Band: insect repellent wristband Judge all you want ... there's a good chance these quick thinkers will rake in the dough.
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We saw what it takes to run a viable insect business today, and we learned why the insect revolution still hasn't quite hit yet.
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He now directs the Autonomous Insect Robotics Laboratory at UW, which works to advance insect-scale robotics engineering and better understand the capabilities of insects.
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"Insect cells generally are so hardy you can't kill them," says Tufts biomedical engineer David Kaplan, who coauthored a recent paper on culturing insect tissue.
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Despite the proliferation of insect consumption, few American mainstream stores sell insects for cooking or stock insect-based food products, such as cricket ground flour.
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Trained as a field biologist, he studied insect-metamorphoses patterns in graduate school and eventually used the same techniques to measure insect growth in death investigations.
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Scientists in China report that they've found the world's longest insect — a new species of stick insect of the genus Phryganistria that measures over half a meter.
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Insect pollination is essential for the cocoa plant, according to the 2007 survey, and their pollinators are bees as well as another kind of insect called midges.
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Wolbachia is a bacterium that infects up to 70 percent of all known insect species, where it hijacks the insect reproduction to spread itself through the population.
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According to the museum's owner, John Cambridge, the massive "live-insect heist" cost the museum nearly 80 percent of its insect population, a staggering $40,000 haul, CNN reports.
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He provides a lovely addendum to the plight of the Lord Howe stick insect, including a wondrous video of a huge newborn insect emerging from an impossibly tiny egg.
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The full course, costing 3,000 yen ($27), consisted of insect ramen, a bowl of rice with crickets, spring rolls with fried worms, and ice cream flavoured with insect powder.
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Beekeepers themselves, Solomon confided, are funny creatures: solitary in the field, trying to anticipate the needs of a finicky insect and, unlike that insect, social only once in a while.
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And here's the best way to use mosquito repellants, per the CDC: • Spray or rub repellant only onto skin not covered by clothes (it's not necessary to apply repellant under your clothing)• Use just enough insect repellant to cover your skin; heavy application does not increase effectiveness • Never use insect repellants on cuts, wounds or irritated skin • Do not spray insect repellant directly onto your face – spray it into your hands and then carefully apply to your face • Apply insect repellant after applying sunscreen • After returning indoors, wash insect repellant off of your skin with soap and water or take a bath.
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If people are living in places with Aedes mosquitoes, they are advised to use insect repellent, wear long-sleeved, light-colored clothes and use insect screens or mosquito nets while inside.
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People living in or visiting tropical areas with Aedes mosquitoes are advised to use insect repellent, wear long-sleeved, light-colored clothes and use insect screens or mosquito nets while inside.
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If people are living in places with Aedes mosquitoes, they are advised to use insect repellent, wear long-sleeved, light-colored clothes, and use insect screens or mosquito nets while inside.
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But the trend is starting to creep into Western cuisine, with some restaurants offering insect-based menus and some mainstream European supermarkets starting to sell edible insect snacks or bug burgers.
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Using insect repellent is safe — even for pregnant women.
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According to public DARPA documents, the first phase of Insect Allies was scheduled to concluded in late 2018 and result in the successful delivery of a genetically modified virus to an insect.
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Ortho Home Defense Insect Killer, $2211 (originally $28.99) [You save $18.85]To control ant infestation, the Ortho Home Defense Insect Killer is the best for creating a perimeter around your house.4.
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Scientists have detailed a "quiet apocalypse" among insect populations, with 41% of bug species facing extinction, according to a recent report on insect decline for the UK Wildlife Trusts authored by Goulson.
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Some of the participants viewed advertisements from an insect-based food company that highlighted environmental or health benefits of this food, while others saw ads showcasing the delicious taste of insect treats.
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Click on any of the following row numbers to see where the animals are hidden: Row 5 POSTDOC TOP U.S.S.R. = OCTOPUS Row 11 PLEA FIN SECTION = LEAF INSECT Row 13 GALILEO PARDON ME = LEOPARD Only INSECT stood out to me as being slightly outside the theme set, because INSECT is a general term and not all types use CAMOUFLAGE.
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It's not known whether this stick insect is an endangered species, however similar insects, like the Lord Howe Island stick insect, have all but disappeared in the wild after introduced rodents decimated populations.
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If you need protection against insects, apply insect repellent over sunscreen, and reapply the sunscreen after two hours, on top of the insect repellent, which does not have to be reapplied so frequently.
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Because the pain of an insect sting is not normal.
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"I'll just buy some really strong insect repellent," she said.
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Duncan imitates the way an insect eats during a lesson.
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A lot of instantaneous insect behaviors are super, super fast.
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I doubt that it was selected for during insect evolution.
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Or having a wrap for lunch made with insect flour?
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Is that going to be book two, the insect edition?
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Wear insect repellent, since mosquitoes lay eggs in standing water.
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So Oxitec has since developed second generation insect sterility tech.
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There is also potential for insect farming to reduce waste.
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Video showed Dreckman undeterred as he pulled the insect out.
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An insect becomes infected by biting an infected human being.
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The insect can beat its wings 70 times per second.
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" She described this makeup as an "other-worldly insect vibe.
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It's an insect mukbang complete with a rock music soundtrack.
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Thanks to climate change, insect populations are on the move.
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A British woman hands me a can of insect repellent.
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Dr. Elkin advised her to use insect repellent with DEET.
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An insect with the nickname "kissing bug" doesn't sound scary.
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Eventually, the insect flour could be directly consumed by people.
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Insect queens are more like reproductive organs for their colonies.
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This year, an insect infestation has cut it by half.
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Stemming insect declines will require much more than this, however.
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Termites are the unloved freaks of the social insect world.
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Unlike the butterfly house, the insect museum operates year round.
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Despite the possibilities, the insect protein industry faces many challenges.
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Last week my daughter chose an obscure insect, an ant.
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What insect would you most like to learn more about?
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Suddenly he's holding a lifelike insect, ready to take flight.
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Tackling all the insect species was a step too far.
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He will eat anything: crumb, pebble, any worm or insect.
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Wardill has been studying insect vision for about 15 years.
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Garimella studied the insect, and sent emails to eminent biologists.
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"How many parts does an insect body have?" she asked.
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But Wolbachia is natural — most insect species already carry it.
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The company sells leftover insect material as a soil enricher.
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Last month, Gourmet Grubb also opened a concept popup store, which included savory insect dishes such as insect powder pasta, chickpea black-larvae croquettes and mopani worm hummus, to serve alongside its ice cream.
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"We don't have categorical proof, but it'd be very surprising if the billions of pounds of insect poison being spread across the landscape wasn't connected to the decline of insect-eating birds," he said.
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The corn was engineered to kill insect larvae that fed on it, but Dr. Hilbeck found that it was also toxic to an insect called the lacewing, a useful bug that eats other pests.
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In the US, the law allows up to 30 insect fragments per 100 grams of peanut butter; 60 insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate; and up to 100 per 10 grams of nutmeg. Worms
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The impact of this disastrous insect has shaped civilization far beyond our expectations, according to historian Timothy C. Winegard, whose new book, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, explores this lethal insect.
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"The sea butterfly is basically an honorary insect," Dr. Murphy said.
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In this case, the activists are blaming insect killers called larvicides.
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Dogs can have variable allergic reactions to insect bites or stings.
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Scientists have been using sterilization to control insect pests for decades.
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Fiitingly, a customer arrives dressed as a Jeff Goldblum-spliced insect.
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Wake up with the sunrise, the insect bites, the stultifying heat.
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But insect consumption is considered pretty gross in most Western countries.
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Insect parts are gross, but they don't lead to foodborne illnesses.
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But closing the trap on an insect is only Step 1.
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These pain sensing neurons trigger defensive behavioral responses in the insect.
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A massive insect on its back in an apartment bedroom. A
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When buying fresh produce, the occasional insect is to be expected.
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Under LED lights, he'll use tiny tweezers to pose the insect.
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The US edible insect scene is a bit ahead of Europe.
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Their method of catching and eating prey is basically insect torture.
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One protected its host from the attentions of pesky insect larvae.
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An insect hitting the windshield could send her into a panic.
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The CDC has also posted these guidelines for using insect repellents.
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Others assumed it was an arthropod like an insect or crab.
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It uses insect cells from fruit flies to produce viral antigens.
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If your destinations include malaria areas, insect repellent is not enough.
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The Gutiérrez family works to preserve traditional plant and insect dyes.
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Neonicotinoid restrictions are also causing British farmers problems with insect pests.
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At an insect farm in Cape Town, the bugs are hungry.
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You could strip away the insect idea and just have that.
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The resin is produced as a defense mechanism against insect infestations.
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Checks using insect nets and sticky traps showed the same trend.
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But in the mirror all the boy saw was an insect.
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Kids can have these reactions from foods, medications and insect stings.
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Burt's Bees All-Natural Herbal Insect Repellent, $8.29, available at Amazon.
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Here's the best way to use mosquito repellants, per the CDC: • Spray or rub repellant only onto skin not covered by clothes (it's not necessary to apply repellant under your clothing)• Use just enough insect repellant to cover your skin; heavy application does not increase effectiveness • Never use insect repellants on cuts, wounds or irritated skin • Do not spray insect repellant directly onto your face – spray it into your hands and then carefully apply to your face • Apply insect repellant after applying sunscreen • After returning indoors, wash insect repellant off of your skin with soap and water or take a bath Another way to protect your home from mosquito populations is to get rid of standing water.
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The insect is "very highly adapted to being a small ectoparasitic pest that lives by its host," says Josh Benoit, an insect molecular biologist at the University of Cincinnati and first author on one of the papers.
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But in the 1960s, rock climbers on Ball's Pyramid, a volcanic stack 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of the island, made an exciting discovery: a collection of fresh insect corpses that seemed to be the stick insect.
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But you're interested in insect bitters for more than just mixology, right?
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A general store will even offer essentials, including sunscreen and insect repellant.
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Each form is primarily spread by a different insect or arachnid vector.
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That's more than 225 eggs and a whole insect in each box.
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Over a third of insect species, they claimed, are threatened with extinction.
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"The insect apocalypse is here," trumpeted the New York Times last year.
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And there is just so much work involved in photographing each insect.
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The tiny insect bots aren't particularly new, but this cooperative behavior is.
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So in 1971, I published The Insect Societies, which was very successful.
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How does Kaplan know insect cells grow so easily in the lab?
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But say you want to grow insect cells for food, not robots.
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To protect pregnant women, Frieden recommended using insect repellent daily and reliably.
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When Levon Biss photographs an insect, he doesn't just use one shot.
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The insect can even survive for up to 30 minutes submerged underwater.
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Has there been much commercial interest in your take on insect farming?
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For economically insecure women, insect farming is often a more accessible option.
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We live in South Florida so we knew to bring insect repellent.
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"I felt like an insect, tangled in the spider web," he said.
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But the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once declared extinct, still lives.
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Insect activity and the degree of decomposition were recorded twice a day.
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Here's a tale from the annals of globalizing insect problems and solutions.
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Meanwhile, the insect is kept alive, "so it's really gruesome," he said.
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That sting, I've realized, always does have an insect that incited it.
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So far nothing about this was winning me over to Team Insect.
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So, that's where we could end up in an insect-less world.
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"They're the pandas of the insect world," one of the scientists said.
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For years, insect populations have been dropping worldwide without a clear explanation.
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The flower may mimic the female of a pollinating insect, for example.
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And his insect work is really all he wants to talk about.
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"I don't think caladryl does much for insect bites," Dr. Fradin said.
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That's probably also where the birds can find insect larvae to eat.
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"I caused acute severe anaphylaxis in myself from an insect," he explained.
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Others scavenged, like raccoons, or dug into insect nests like today's aardvarks.
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You wanted to see what insect could possibly make it out alive.
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Known as sterile-insect technique, it has been used widely ever since.
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Today, billions of people still consume more than 2,100 insect species worldwide.
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Other studies show similar trends in insect populations, amphibians and aquatic systems.
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Sunscreens currently manufactured with insect repellents would also be considered new drugs.
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Fortunately, he managed to quickly expel the insect invader from his body.
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He wondered how an insect known for flight could propel through water.
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A Novice is born into an insect tribe, led by a Queen.
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"Insect protein is a really sustainable way of producing protein," he added.
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A leaf meanders its way to the ground; an insect buzzes by.
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The insect-resistant eggplant seems to be reducing pesticide use in Bangladesh.
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She'd encountered Scyther, a flying green insect Pokémon with scythes for hands.
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However, let's use the Asian tiger mosquito as our human-draining insect.
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INSECT BACKLASH Baumann has beefed up Bayer's public relations machine in an attempt to repair its image, which also faces a backlash in Germany over a collapse in insect populations, which environmentalists blame on pesticides used in farming.
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According to a DARPA slide presentation, the goal of Insect Allies is to "stably transform multiple mature crop plants in a complex, multi-species plant and insect community with enhanced trait(s) of agricultural interest" by mid-2021.
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This fossilized insect probably isn't the direct ancestor of cimicids today, but its close genetic relationship to the family helped the authors work out a timeline for the ancestral insect that would give rise to the bed bug.
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At worst, you can die," said Jason J. Dombroskie, manager of the Cornell University Insect Collection and coordinator of the Insect Diagnostic Lab in Ithaca, N.Y. "You can go into anaphylactic shock and have your airways close up.
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"The pace of modern insect extinctions surpasses that of vertebrates by a large margin," write the authors of an alarming new review in Biological Conservation of the scientific literature on insect population declines published in the past 4003 years.
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Although the young Mr. El-Dabh never anticipated a career as a composer, he had carried out his first acoustic experiments as a youth, in the service of insect extermination — or, as he more tenderly put it, insect discouragement.
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It does, however, recommend using EPA-registered insect repellents and permethrin-treated items.
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No matter, the world's favorite insect-themed alien robot will likely thrill anyhow.
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You met the kingpin of the black market insect trade in your travels.
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The insect may continue living like this, if the glue doesn't kill it.
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Multidisciplinary artist Géza Szöllősi's alien-like insect sculptures are less easy to ignore.
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The researchers think that the ants probably eats tiny invertebrates or insect eggs.
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In addition, each insect delivers an enormous punch of protein for its size.
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Half of France's insect ecosystem appears to be smeared across the front bumper.
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Research published on Monday finally explains the secrets of this scuba-diving insect.
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They typed the search terms [insect*] and [declin*] and [survey] into a database.
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That is also true of the floral ecosystems that depend on insect pollinators.
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If the drive makes female mosquitoes sterile, it could eliminate the insect altogether.
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The agency will also run a public education program and distribute insect repellents.
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The characters often shrink to insect-like proportions to avoid obstacles and detection.
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Varroa feeds on hemolymph (the insect "blood") of adult and developing honey bees.
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In 1958, the Pan-American Health Organization declared Brazil free of the insect.
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It's like insect repellant to deter people with no sense of personal space.
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But once an insect hits that web, something damn near logic-defying happens.
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What they did: Researchers placed insect-catching traps in nature preserves in Germany.
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The mass insect migrations generally headed north in spring and south in autumn.
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Developing your countertop insect farm, the Hive, took you to other places too.
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Those the size of a large insect are not much to worry about.
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This is unfortunate, because biological insect control can eradicate pests over large areas.
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Drones monitor crop yields, insect infestations and the location and health of cattle.
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"Young people would rather play with their phones than an insect," he said.
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The watery gourd, which grows in temperate areas, benefits greatly from insect pollination.
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Photo: Ivain MartinossiThere's an evolutionary arms race going on in the insect world.
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" These redactions turn the text into something harsh yet beautiful: "Make Insect Profit!
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There's nothing quite like the eerie sight of an insect preserved in amber.
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But, as Phillips demonstrates, neither the insect nor the K.K.K. was around then.
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If one of those antennae falls off, the insect can grow it back.
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A bee's buzz is the result of the insect vibrating its wing muscles.
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Stuck inside was a two-millimeter-long insect, known as a boganiid beetle.
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"That was my most interesting insect," Mr. Al-najm said in an email.
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"I don't think you could create a more useful insect," said Dr. Chapman.
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Insect collectors have been known to kill beetle populations, so he avoids specifics.
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What does the video recommend to prevent insect and bug bites this summer?
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It also ended up saddling me with a number of insect-borne ailments.
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Ferns have relatively few insect predators compared with other plants, academic experts agree.
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Later, their love of butterflies will fuel rumors of insect-related baby names.
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Bugs wiggled up through broken floorboards, traumatizing Justin, who has an insect phobia.
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A large insect crawled across the floor as the chorus waited its turn.
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Gene drives are different; one insect could affect the future of our species.
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They weren't that different from insect eaters among other cultures on other continents.
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Moreover, like many endemic insect and arthropod species, velvet worms are highly local.
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All good, but will insect food actually make its way to Western plates?
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Most camps supply the usual toiletries as well as sunscreen and insect repellent.
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It's harmless to humans and vertebrates, and occurs naturally in most insect species.
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Inside is the nymphal form of a familiar leaping insect, the frog hopper.
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He has recorded the sound signatures of ants, insect larvae, wolves, and viruses.
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Cutter CitroGuard 20-Ounce Insect Repellent Triple Wick Candle, $10.60, available at Amazon.
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Murphy's Mosquito Sticks - All Natural Insect Repellent Incense Sticks, $12, available at Amazon.
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That theoretically makes cultured insect meat more scalable, both because you cut out the insane costs of serums, and because the process is inherently simpler: When you grow insect cells in the lab they easily "immortalize," or propagate in perpetuity.
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The virus's job isn't easy: WO has to infect the Wolbachia bacteria, break out of the bacteria, and finally break out of the insect host to find its way into another insect, and then into another Wolbachia, and so on.
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The guy was all over the place, like some kind of insect rock star.
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Team members will wear tracksuits infused with insect repellant to keep mosquitos at bay.
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And Medicaid has been approved to cover insect repellent to help people avoid bites.
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The world's most famous footballing insect has died after a long and illustrious career.
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So what do you do if your drone is the size of an insect?
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They look great if you like looking like an insect from the nose up.
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The first insect this was tried with, to great success, was the screwworm fly.
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Its smoke and essential oil actually make a good natural alternative to insect repellent.
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Why do sodas need to use insect-derived dyes instead of plant-derived ones?
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Epinephrine treats anaphylaxis, an allergic reaction to things like medication, food, and insect stings.
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Wear protective clothing, use insect repellents, and put up screens on windows and doors.
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Birds keep bloodsucking bugs at bay by weaving insect-repelling plants into their nests.
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Godzilla, reporters broker the alliance with the insect-monster and the Infant Island people.
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Yes, a wasp — an insect that has the ability to sting more than once.
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The saliva turns watery again when the insect is sheared off inside the mouth.
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They were treated at a local hospital for insect bites and scratches, authorities said.
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The front legs act more as sensors, feeling the way as the insect moves.
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Because Hubert says they're the highest-quality insect for pound-for-pound protein production.
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Only when more than 90% of insect species were removed, did floral diversity collapse.
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It is hard to argue that insect decline is yet wreaking significant economic damage.
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Also facially he looks a bit like the stick insect from A Bug's Life.
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DEET, an active ingredient in many insect repellants, has been used since the 1940s.
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Halsey's attempt at a brave rescue of a stricken insect has gone horribly wrong.
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Their scientists don't really know where the American insect keeps its sex determination machinery.
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"Wear insect repellant, long pants, and socks when visiting plague-affected areas," she added.
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Plus, summer is just around the corner, and warm weather only exacerbates insect activity.
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It contains a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt, that wards off insect larvae.
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Scientists told them about how warmer temperatures had even changed the local insect populations.
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Below-normal rains and insect damage have slashed India's corn output and raised prices.
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As an insect, your body vibrates and buzzes as the ground jitters below you.
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Another day, an "insect-like being" that reminded Huggins of a praying mantis appeared.
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They made sure to move the traps around so they wouldn't harm insect populations.
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Despite its reliable history and sound science, misinformation about the sterile insect technique abounds.
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Airports have insect-elimination, or "disinsection," policies mandated by the UN's International Health Regulations.
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One new bar in Singapore is taking the edible insect trend to gourmet proportions.
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Unsurprisingly, it is men who profit from the higher end of the insect market.
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The virus can be transmitted via sexual intercourse as well as by insect bites.
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If they arrive too late, they'll get only the scraps of spring's insect buffet.
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Many insect species are rich in protein and macronutrients such as iron and zinc.
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Reliable ant prevention is difficult and stamping out an insect infestation is even worse.
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So insect extinctions could have a major impact on our food production and supply.
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The orange melon is extremely reliant on insect pollination, according to the 2007 survey.
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But VW chairman Herbert Diess quashed that rumor like an insect under his boot.
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The device uses a fan to disperse an insect-repelling chemical known as metofluthrin.
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More than 80% of all terrestrial animal, plant, and insect species call forests home.
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A February study found that 40% of the world's insect species are in decline.
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This tiny insect turns out to be a major engine of modern biological discovery.
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Red and blue metal insect traps and dead bees are scattered around the floor.
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Still, higher temperatures can spell bad news for thirsty crops regardless of insect activity.
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"It would be very cool to actually see the shape of an ancestral insect."
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Dr. Chapman and his colleagues are using radar to bring insect migrations to light.
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It's a pesky insect that most of us don't think twice about: the mosquito.
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This process continues until I have covered the whole surface area of the insect.
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Editorial There is alarming new evidence that insect populations worldwide are in rapid decline.
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A flying insect decided to bug President Donald Trump during a speech in Virginia.
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The cold, dry ecosystems on Antarctica itself can't support anything bigger than an insect.
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Then, in the intervening eons, the system has evolved to suit individual insect species.
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Mosquitoes aren't the only insect, or even animal, to worry about after a storm.
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The cover featured a bizarre-looking South American insect called the ball-bearing treehopper.
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Trilobites The ladybug is a tiny insect with hind wings four times its size.
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Wolbachia occurs naturally in most insect species and is harmless to vertebrates and humans.
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In addition to insect repellent, the kits include bed nets, larvicide tablets and condoms.
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Those who don't reach for the mayonnaise when they can't find the insect repellent.
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One possibility was that it drew oxygen from the bubbles, like a diving insect.
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A couple of beehives nestled in the trees are also brimming with insect visitors.
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Fuller became inspired by insect robotics 20 years ago when he started observing a group at UC Berkeley who were trying to create a "micromechanical flying insect" that weighed less than a paper clip and could lift off the ground and hover.
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The only necessary 'assembly' or 'operation' to create an insect–computer hybrid robot is to mount a miniature radio device and implant thin wire electrodes into appropriate neuromuscular sites on the insect for electrical stimulation to induce the desired motor actions and behaviours.
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Rather than taking advantage of another insect, however, these parasites leech off the plant kingdom.
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It's now considered one of the largest structures ever built by a single insect species.
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Suddenly, an insect-like springtail comes into the view of a trap-jaw's compound eye.
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Insect repellents that contain DEET, picaridin or IR3535 are recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The wrybill uses its laterally curved bill to reach insect larvae under rounded riverbed stones.
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These can blind, burn and poison would-be predators, and also act as insect repellents.
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Additionally, we seem to have once again found ourselves circling the issue of insect consciousness.
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In this case, the Edgar bug was this huge 15-foot-long giant insect monster.
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Herbicide-resistant varieties include maize, soybean and cotton; insect-resistant crops include eggplant and poplar.
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Just think of it: Bugs can be grown in small cages nested inside insect skyscrapers.
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In terms of walking, Dr. Dallmann said, the insect acts like a four-legged animal.
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The company raised $50 million in financing back in 2017 to expand its insect empire.
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Was confronted by that English stick insect on the cover of Vanity Fair…Hermione whatsherface.
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Most describe declines of 50% and more over decades in different measures of insect health.
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Either that or farmers will have to employ anti-insect strategies that don't involve neonicotinoids.
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Insect populations are collapsing worldwide and may vanish within a century, according to new research.
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Scientists have been raising red flags about the downward spiral of insect populations for decades.
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Image by Nanyang Technological University and the University of California BerkeleyAn insect army awaits you.
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The patron saint of insect candies is a kind, soft-spoken septuagenerian named Larry Peterman.
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The aye-aye uses this finger to tap on trees to listen for insect larvae.
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The DelFly is a super light, super agile robot that flies like a real insect.
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And there has been little research on safety, toxicity and allergies associated with insect consumption.
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It's disgusting, but it paints a remarkably vibrant picture of insect life in the region.
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It's painstaking work to get every aspect of the insect in perfect focus this way.
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It looks like a diseased insect egg sac and tastes like vomit and cheddar cheese.
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Chronic product shortages mean even pain killers and insect repellent are hard to come by.
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A conservator discovers a long-hidden insect buried in the artist's signature whorls of paint.
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With some kind of additional scaffolding, insect meat might also gain a more desirable texture.
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Animal (or, in this case, insect) spirits that drive life, are both mysterious and amazing.
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ONE of the nastier ways an insect can make its living is as a parasitoid.
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It's no coincidence that Quezada has chosen crickets to star in KOJAWAN's first insect dish.
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The company is developing the first fully automated "smart factory" that produces insect protein meal.
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When an insect munches on a leaf, these same signals can trigger a defense response.
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A German study found a 75 percent decline in insect biomass between 1989 and 2017.
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Being an advanced insect creature, Annihilus has super strength and is basically impervious to harm.
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Other uses include making insect pests unable to reproduce and plants that naturally resist disease.
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Even a dead insect on the shell can mess up that ideal state of flow.
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But don't necessarily consider primate losses to be more important, or painful, than insect losses.
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Narrator: Bees help pollinate the reported 84% of crops humans eat that are insect-pollinated.
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Health officials are urging people to use insect repellents with DEET to avoid being bitten.
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Visitors venturing inside can interact with an inverted insect-eye view of the world outside.
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"We are creating a very primitive brain of an insect, a dragonfly," Bar-Nahum said.
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Eventually, he parlayed his insect expertise into work as a "bug wrangler" on Hollywood productions.
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Here's a semi-transparent image of the coprolite with the insect remains highlighted in yellow.
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Wearing insect repellent and clothing that covers your body can help keep ticks away, too.
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Scientists found evidence that insect-borne diseases will become far more common in the US.
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" But insect wings evolved so long ago, he added, "it's hard to tell what happened.
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For example, a Wood Destroying Insect Inspection can identify termites, carpenter ants and other pests.
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"They used to look at me like I was an insect," Mananova told Al Jazeera.
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The wind sweeps bacteria, pollen, leaf fragments and bits of insect shells into the atmosphere.
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At first I glanced at it and thought it was a spider or some insect.
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Simon Lobelson stars as Gregor, the man-turned-insect, in this Melbourne Arts Center production.
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The site, Kingsland Wildflowers, also sponsors environmental programs connected with its bird-and-insect habitat.
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Two of the 10 stories in this collection include an insect landing on a book.
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But humans have nerve sites similar to the sites in insect nerves targeted by neonics.
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The fight begins when an insect bites the plant, which triggers an immunelike defense response.
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This is particularly well illustrated as they take advantage of insect swarms in late summer.
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The nation harbors 250,000 insect species, of which only about one-third have been named.
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"This new insect family had several features different from the extant chewing lice," said Shih.
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Wearing insect repellent when outdoors (especially at dawn and dusk) is important to prevent EEE.
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The insect can navigate almost any terrain, thanks to over 300 million years of evolution.
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Paradigm shift In essence, the Insect Allies Program seeks to speed the genetic modification process.
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And if it&aposs your pet, treat them with an insect growth regulator, like Lufenuron.
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The chemical has been linked to wiping out insect populations and harming ecosystems and pollination.
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It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito.
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The long-term details about insect abundance, the kind that no one really thought existed, hadn't appeared in a particularly prestigious journal and didn't come from university-affiliated scientists, but from a small society of insect enthusiasts based in the modest German city Krefeld.
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The European Union already had some measures in place to help pollinators — including more strictly regulating pesticides than the United States does and paying farmers to create insect habitats by leaving fields fallow and allowing for wild edges alongside cultivation — but insect populations dropped anyway.
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The center's Kopec noted that almost 90 percent of wild plants are dependent on insect pollination.
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Neck glands in the neck secreted a noxious substance, which the insect used to repel predators.
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The FDA allows an average of 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of chocolate.
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"For example, one of my students has created a very tasty insect ice-cream," he said.
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One of the 25-year-old rapper's most popular tracks, "Butterfly Effect," also references the insect.
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It is, in fact, the Lord Howe Island stick insect camping out on an inhospitable pyramid.
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Wearing protective clothing, using insect repellents, and keeping your house cool with air conditioning also helps.
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That way, if an insect is immune to one kind, another kind can knock them out.
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Minute Maid grapefruit juice Another drink that uses insect-derived dyes is Minute-Maid grapefruit juice.
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Pregnant women might still want to talk with their obstetricians before using insect repellant, Hotez said.
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For one, it's just that the sheer number of insect species on Earth [is too high].
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Naturansa Naturansa produces high-quality protein from edible insect grown through pre-consumer food waste decomposition.
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A Brooklyn food festival over Labor Day was dedicated to high-end displays of insect protein.
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This sap eventually hardened into amber around the insect and preserved its corpse in pristine condition.
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The atmosphere is both wild and formal; we might be inside a hive or insect colony.
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And she was spotted with insect repellent on her arms during her first night in Tonga.
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Cockroaches will reign on Earth — or maybe they won't, since there's a mass insect extinction underway.
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It also recommends using an EPA-registered insect repellant to prevent bites in the first place.
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According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), beetles are the most commonly eaten insect.
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That food consists mainly of insects, little non-insect bugs called springtails, and even small vertebrates.
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The researchers worked with females of the species Carausius morosus, the Indian or common stick insect.
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For years researchers have worked towards switching from chicken cells to other animal and insect proteins.
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Nevertheless, this process is a reminder that insect ecosystems are more resilient than they sometimes appear.
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A British study from 2004 found that insect species are declining faster than birds or plants.
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The singer chewed up the insect, but claimed she didn't remember sharing that information about Cruise.
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However, ecologists increasingly see the insect world as something to be frightened for, not frightened of.
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Although insect-eating birds are disappearing from European farmlands, plants still grow, attract pollinators and reproduce.
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The extinction of a few insect species among so many might not make a big difference.
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With the world's population rising, more land would go under the plough, reducing insect diversity further.
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And she told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that all of her children enjoy a good, tasty insect.
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Some lots of IV solutions, for instance, were previously recalled after a customer discovered an insect.
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Australia has up to 140 species of stick insect, but Asia also has a high number.
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This perching robotic insect is the smallest flying robot platform that can autonomously attach to surfaces.
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The tat looks like a scarab beetle, an insect regarded as being sacred in ancient Egypt.
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The title track opens up with ominous horns before insect-like whirrs punctuate the higher registers.
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If you feel a pressing need to walk through a prairie dog colony, wear insect repellant.
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These insect bites can lead to serious illnesses which can require hospitalization and be life-threatening.
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These included individuals swallowing insect repellent and dousing their bodies with boiling water, the newspaper reported.
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Just last year, biologists concluded that Hawaii's insect-eating forest-bird, the poʻouli, is now extinct.
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It takes 15 to 25 hours to make each photo, he said, depending on the insect.
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And she was spotted with insect repellent on her arms during her first night in Tonga.
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It's a truism among tick researchers that their work is underfunded compared with other insect vectors.
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You also have quite a few insect specimens, which show up a lot in your illustrations.
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Each one has to look like and behave like an insect, something the fish would eat.
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In one influential speech, a Hutu politician compared Rwanda's Tutsi population to a particularly nasty insect.
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The RoboBee is an insect-size robot that weighs less than four thousandths of an ounce.
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Forests have become unnaturally dense and overgrown, and insect epidemics have laid waste to entire landscapes.
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Those that attacked a two-month-old took only one bite before spitting the insect out.
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When the time came, I unwrapped each Kiss and molded the warm chocolate around an insect.
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They contain insect repellent, condoms and other items to help prevent mosquito-borne and sexual transmission.
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In summertime, the insect can sometimes even be found in northern states like Maine and Minnesota.
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Looking down, from his impassive height, Trump gazes as if at an insect or inanimate object.
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Military personnel in affected areas are advised to use insect repellent and to wear appropriate clothing.
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And they're sustainable — insect farming produces almost 100 times less greenhouse gas than beef-farming does.
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Invasive insect species that lay eggs almost exclusively travel via wooden pallets and live plant trade.
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Yet these insect pollinators belong to a group that's facing extinction, according to a UN report.
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They were concerned about possible disease transmission from the insect, according to a CDC report Thursday.
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Itineraries The worst hotel experiences can be caused by an insect smaller than a fingernail clipping.
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By contrast, Insect Artifice becomes quite hard to follow whenever another Low Country intellectual is introduced.
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There also may be insect parts, bodily secretions and excretions, fungal spores, and bacteria, he says.
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His paintings include human figures (usually more than two), an animal (or insect), and a room.
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"This the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by a single insect species," the scientists wrote.
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One work in particular featured a self-portrait of the artist attacked by a flying insect.
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The photos, which range in size, are shown next to the much smaller insect specimens themselves.
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I stared at this object for a few seconds and realized it was not an insect.
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If you walk through wooded or grassy areas where it's prevalent, you should use insect repellent.
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She is in the midst of pulverizing cochineal, a parasitic insect, to create a red dye.
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Scientists believe there were trillions of "Rocky Mountain Locusts," a type of insect that's now extinct.
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A giant insect loomed in the foreground, a kind of dragonfly with translucent wings, delicately rendered.
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Public health experts were shocked — no other insect-borne virus had ever been transmitted by sex.
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Be less tidy One of the major factors affecting insect populations is habitat loss and fragmentation.
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He heard me typing and thought it was some sort of insect chattering in the house.
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In turn, these insects draw insect-eating animals into the desert, like scorpions and golden moles.
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Mr Winegard convincingly argues that the insect has shaped human life as well as delivering death.
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A fire, windstorm or insect infestation can fell your trees (and your investment) in short order.
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Chronic shortages of medication, insect repellent, and contraception, are also turning worry into terror for many.
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The insect farm is part of a circular system that extends far beyond the egg trays.
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The plight of insect communities has been linked, mostly, to pesticide use and intensive agricultural practices.
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But there are new statistics regarding insect decline, and they continue to be pretty damn frightening.
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Preventing them can sometimes be as simple as drinking water and wearing sunscreen and insect repellant.
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Water is more viscous, but the snail is larger than a tiny insect like a fruit fly.
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David MacNeal: It kicked off in my friend's lab, when he invited me to dissect an insect.
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DuPont was "disappointed" its Pioneer insect-resistant corn was not included, a spokeswoman said in an email.
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Insect Allies is a fundamental research program with research being performed by university-led or affiliated teams.
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"They are not difficult to sell, and there's a thriving market of insect enthusiasts," he told us.
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Plants, in addition to releasing chemicals that kickstart the repair process, can release noxious, insect-unfriendly chemicals.
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Last month, Maple Leaf Foods made an investment in Entomo Farms, a U.S.-based insect protein supplier.
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Like the predatory Mantis insect, this vehicle can ambush and strike rapidly when prey is within reach.
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Currently, an older approach called "sterile insect technology" is being used in some areas to fight mosquitoes.
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No, not that big, unidentified insect at right; Jason is the teeny beetle at the very bottom.
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I feel like there should be enough alternatives to insect-derived dyes that juice shouldn't need them.
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"Increased heat, drought, and insect outbreaks, all linked to climate change, have increased wildfires," the report reads.
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Naturally, the insect stuck out one of its little arms and delivered, like a true beetle bro.
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" At #22 in Julie Hatfield's book Top 212 Most Delicious Insect Recipes is "Green Beans and Grasshoppers.
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However, of the world's insect species live in the tropics, where new species are still being discovered.
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The researchers in the new Biological Conservation paper outline four broad, global problems leading to insect loss.
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Did you know there can be 450 insect parts and nine rodent hairs in every 16 oz.
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He hopes to build something like the stick insect in robot form to use for further studies.
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Even communities with established, well-funded insect-fighting programs may lack the tools to prevent an outbreak.
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These areas include almost all the tropics where the majority of insect species are thought to live.
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Companies also include financial investment AI platforms, edible insect based protein powder, to culturally relevant dating apps.
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We found out that the world of insect sex is mysterious, fascinating, and sometimes disturbing as hell.
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Derek A. Woller Entomologist, Song Laboratory of Insect Systematics and Evolution at Texas A&M UniversityShort answer?
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After all, the insect liquid takes the form of protein crystals in the guts of baby cockroaches.
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The ants, a smell-guided insect, also receive a dose of the synthetic scent in the room.
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These elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) specialize in eating insect larvae, which are protected by extremely tough exoskeletons.
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The big picture: The company claims this deal will let it build the world's largest insect farm.
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A farmer from Honduras complains of plunging coffee prices, reduced rainfall and insect plagues destroying his crops.
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The $12 bandana from Insect Shield is made with a permethrin formula that's weaved within the fabric.
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Plus, you can check out Insect Shield's other tick-repelling products, including dog tees and blankets, here.
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Some of these, like in the stick insect, are not particularly nice but nature has no morale.
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Online retailer Lazada Singapore said sales of insect repellents jumped five-fold in the past three days.
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While nature continues to creep us all out, the freaky looking insect is definitely a head turner.
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Then, using electricity, he can trigger these bundles of insect cells to contract or expand, like muscles.
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Actuators substitute for muscles, solar cells substitute for an insect fueling itself with food, and so on.
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The insect, of the order Blattodea, has lived on this Earth for more than 300 million years.
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This is in part because of basic amenities: air conditioned venues, screened windows, access to insect repellant.
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Seaweed and insect food products have to be tasty and people have to want to eat them.
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It has allowed Leonardo to identify specific brain cells that steer the insect as it hunts prey.
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Superweeds and insect-resistance are proliferating with the multiple chemical applications required increasingly by genetically engineered crops.
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A rock-climbing ranger made a curious discovery in 2001 on Ball's Pyramid: a similar-looking insect.
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But we zipped Roxie into a netted bassinet and took the brunt of the insect onslaught ourselves.
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But scientists say authorities are being short-sighted by thinking only about local weather and insect conditions.
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In Germany, insect diversity and abundance has plummeted at least 80 percent in the last 85033 years.
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It is unusual, however, to find an insect that no one in the country has seen before.
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The same insect passes on the viruses that cause dengue fever and yellow fever, the CDC says.
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The Crunchbase database contains at least five companies in the insect protein space that have secured funding.
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So it's not like it this is a small, obscure insect that only lives in one place.
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Three-dimensional imaging methods in the lab might miss the smallest features like hairs or insect legs.
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The process used in the study, known as the Sterile Insect Technique, has existed since the 1950s.
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And still, no one's eating bugs, which makes me wonder: Is an insect diet really a solution?
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Moreover, the practice may even be harmful to farms by reducing insect populations that pollinate many crops.
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Deep Woods Insect Repellent with its 25% DEET concentration that wards off mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and more.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the species of insect that killed trees in Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Climate change is expected to make insect pests hungrier, which could encourage farmers to use more pesticides.
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Households with pets harbor more insect diversity; so do homes where the windows are open more often.
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Wild insect biodiversity has increased as a result: It's a murkier story when we consider herbicide tolerance.
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The flexibility allows the insect to fit through just about every crack and crevice in your home.
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Then, he extracted fossilized insect bits from black sludge using a probe tipped with human nose hair.
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For a long-lasting, insect-resistant organic garden mulch, Great North Forest Cedar Mulch is our pick.
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Though the idea of drinking insect-tinted liquor may sound unappetizing, the dye is, after all, natural.
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I store off-season woolens in drawers lined with these sheets and have had no insect activity.
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Few insect fossils have been found, so reconstructing the steps in this long evolution has been difficult.
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The ladybug is our official insect, the bluebird our official bird, and the beaver, our official animal.
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Sanofi Pasteur last year acquired Protein Science, which makes Flublok, an influenza vaccine manufactured in insect cells.
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Burt suggested that controlling a dangerous insect or pest would not always require scientists to kill it.
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Granted, dead roaches are better than living ones, but cleaning up those insect carcasses is hardly pleasant.
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They should also carry insect repellent, anti-microbial foam or cream and alcohol-based hand washing gel.
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Correction: An earlier version stated the spider was an insect, when it is in fact an arachnid.
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At present, however, this insect can only be stopped by spraying large quantities of pesticides numerous times.
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So has a giant, 21-inch-long walking-stick insect, and many kinds of birds — laughing thrushes!
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" He doesn't mention the report found that insect-resistant GMOs reduced insecticide use "in all cases examined.
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Aarts described "the sensation of the energy that comes from the growth of the insect" as "beautiful".
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This African insect harbours harmful parasites called trypanosomes, spreading them to humans and animals through its bite.
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More than 160 years ago, British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was exploring the Indonesian island of Bacan on the last day of his expedition trip in 1858 when he discovered the insect, described as a "large black wasp-like insect, with immense jaws like a stag-beetle," Newsweek said.
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