Insecta

Ant (1)
Beetle (3)
Bug (30)
Butterfly (21)
Cockroach (2)
Dragonfly (3)
Flies (30)
Insecta (49)
Phasmid (1)
Wasp (1)

Synopsis: 4.4. animals: Insecta:

and warbles of wild birds and match them against a database of bird sounds to help the oereader identify the species

The risk is that we become mindless ants following endless crumbs of digital data. oepeople tend to ask

nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,

or swarms, inspired by the behavior observed in social insects, called swarm intelligence. So far no swarmbots have made their way to CES. 25.

or to track mosquitoes, or that he belonged to an lite team of ghost hunters.

drive for twenty minutes, realize there was some software bug, then sit there for four hours reprogramming

Weevil infestations caused postharvest losses as high as 50 percent until Purdue University researchers discovered that storing the cowpeas in airtight containers could preserve the crop for up to a year.

and insects, germinate seeds, and allow farmers to add manure. Near-desert plots are transformed gradually into small, narrow fields in

or resist insect pests. This has allowed farmers to increase yields and spray less pesticide than they might have otherwise.

a plant modified to produce a bacterial toxin that discourages destructive bollworms and cuts down on the need for pesticides.

The key is an alarm pheromone that some species of wild plant have evolved to mimic the chemical warning signals put out by aphids#a major crop pest in the temperate zones

Putting the genes for this defense into wheat has created a crop that could trick the insects into thinking that they are in peril and drive them away.

Unlike Bt cotton and other existing GM organisms, such a crop would need no insect-killing chemical for protection from pests.

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nano-netting will provide a fibrous support structure that is visually non-intrusive but capable of keeping out insects, birds,

but backers of the technology say the data they collect from identifying insect problems, watering issues, assessing crop yields

as long as they get a waiver and fly them within a specific area. We are concerned about any (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) operation that poses a hazard to other aircraft or to people and property on the ground,

and this requires talented people who know how to scale things back in an orderly fashion. 7. Feedback Loopers Those who can devise the best possible feedback loops. 8. Backlashers Ever new technology will have its detractors,

. Impact Minimizers 7. Demand Optimizers 8. Secondary Opportunity Developers 9. Feedback Loopers 10. Construction Teams PRTS have the potential to become the largest infrastructure project the earth has seen ever,

and it teems with earthworms beneficial insects and microorganisms. The change is due to several key farming practices including cover cropping and no-till farming

and butterfly wings make use of some unique surface characteristics that promote self-cleaning. The researchers believe that incorporating some of these features into man-made products might be key to tackling problems associated with biofouling.

and butterfly wings combine the low drag of shark skin with the superhydrophobicity of the lotus leaf putting these surfaces at the top of the list of nature-made self-cleaners.

and butterfly wings came to the investigators from observing these structures in their natural habitats.

and butterfly wings roll off effortlessly and that each remains clean in their respective environment says Bhushan.

and lotus leaves rice leaves and butterfly wings have special properties that make them particularly resistant to fouling.

Like shark skin rice leaves and butterfly wings exhibited low drag and self-cleaning properties.

Both rice leaves and butterfly wings contain micro -and nano-sized features that repel and direct water in one direction says Bixler.

and butterfly wings combine antifouling properties of some of nature's best self-cleaners Bhushan and Bixler have identified new surfaces that can be used as engineering inspiration for a wide range of industries plagued by biofouling.

and butterfly wing-inspired films for applications requiring low drag self-cleaning and antifouling say Bhushan.

Bushan's study on rice leaves and butterfly wings was titled Bioinspired rice leaf and butterfly wing surface structures combining shark skin

and lotus effects and was published online in the journal Soft Matter on September 11 2012. DOI:

and insects such as beetles from the grapes a capability that some wineries already possess in other optical approaches.

Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.

The insects could become part of the Mars culture too. Future settlers on the Red planet would likely come from all over the world

and many would not suffer from the Eeeew factor many Westerners associate with eating insects.

when measured by body size even the humble cockroach beats the cheetah on that measure. But a simple biomechanical model applying the appropriate scaling laws would suggest that all animals should be able to run at the same absolute speed not the same relative speed.

which carried multiple genes for insect and herbicide resistance, were stable in the field. I would expect that by the end of the decade,

The development of new countermeasures, from diagnostics to antibiotics and antivirals to respirators, will help protect human lives in the face of new bugs and superbugs.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,

In 2011, APHIS regulators announced that a herbicide-tolerant Kentucky bluegrass would not fall under their purview,

and was just a test case to see how APHIS would respond. That is not the case for other groups that have been told that their GM products would not be regulated.

Sally  Mackenzie, a plant biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, contacted APHIS about the high-yield offspring of a transgenic sorghum grass plant

In 2012, APHIS regulators invited Mackenzie to the organization s headquarters in Riverdale, Maryland, and questioned her about this hypothesis. APHIS eventually notified her that it would not regulate her plants a decision that Mackenzie says has accelerated her research

and may allow her to launch a company to develop her grass variety. Agricultural giants Monsanto, based in St  Louis, Missouri,

Have you been through APHIS? says Mackenzie. Other companies are gauging their prospects with different DNA-modification tools,

In 2010, APHIS told Dow Agrosciences of Indianapolis, Indiana, that it would not regulate a herbicide-tolerant maize (corn) made using zinc-finger nucleases.

Massachusetts, says that he would rather be regulated by APHIS to earn the public s trust.

In April 2012, APHIS told him that the agency would regulate his variety in spite of the fact that the genes he introduced came from other apples.

Also note the FAO APHIS and FDA all acknowledge the risks involved with GMO's. Their adverse affects on environment have been shown

because it is highly effective at controlling Lepidoptera larvae caterpillars. It is during the larval stage

when most of the damage by European corn borer occurs. The protein is very selective generally not harming insects in other orders (such as beetles flies bees and wasps.

For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs

because they harm insect predators and parasitoids much less than broad-spectrum insecticides. The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.

Other studies are beginning to discover certain insects that are adapting to GMO corn s inherent insecticide abilities.

Wildlife/insects in this newly created pond area move or die from drowning. As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.

It would indeed take 8 minutes for the Earth to leave its orbit and fly away into space.

Did cockroaches find lost knowledge? The Giant sequoia?<<B>Evolution favors life but this favoritism is certainly not species specific.</

and streams to keep mosquitoes from breeding. Such practices would be frowned upon today but apparently these methods saved thousands of lives in the early 1900s.

In this essay from the September 1913 issue of Popular Science Dr. John Silas Lankford from the University of Texas describes how the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen

The land of the jungle where the mosquito sang her weird song of death unmolested for four hundred years vying with the germs of dysentery typhoid fever and pneumonia in the destruction of human life;

the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen and prime minister has yielded to modern methods of sanitation

In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.

and malarial mosquitos thrive in countless millions; the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;

and there is an almost constant stream of decaying vegetable and animal matter pouring into lakes

Decaying animal matter leads to the generation of innumerable flies ever ready to convey disease

the cisterns puddles and lakes furnished convenient breeding places for mosquitos; the streets and sidewalks were in horrible condition

and flies literally swarmed over the food. The conditions were little better in Panama city and in the intermediate towns.

Gorgas himself says that the Americans could have done no better than The french without the knowledge of the mosquito as a disease carrier.

so that the operatives might be protected from mosquitoes during sleeping hours. Colon and Panama city are in the Zone

and marshes so that mosquitoes could not breed. Each little station or town was furnished a pure water supply brought down from the distant hills in some instances and provided with an efficient system of sewers or in some rare instances well arranged cesspools.

so that the mosquito could find no resting place. Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed.

This proposition was demonstrated beyond all question in a great educational campaign on the mosquito in the San antonio public schools several years ago in

which the mosquito was exterminated completely. It is an inspiring sight to witness this unseemly death-ridden tropical country changed into a place of beauty

I caught the plastics bug. Biddle later got a Ph d. in polymer science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University.

#Rise Of The Insect Dronesas they sat nursing their beers Guiler and Vaneck watched as a fly appeared to slam into a window.

Instead of breaking apart on contact as their drones did bounced the insect off the glass and recovered.

Then it did it again. It was an epiphany says Vaneck who works for the Massachusetts research and development company Physical sciences Inc. PSI.

But until recently inventors lacked the aerodynamics expertise to turn diagrams into mechanical versions of something as quotidian as a fly or a bee.

And engineers have developed the first flying insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:

Although insects and their relatives represent roughly 80 percent of the world s animal species ome 900000 known types he mechanics of their flight had long been an enigma.

But as the wings of insects flap back and forth the air around them is constantly changing.

And the stubby wings of bees and other insects lift far more weight than can be explained using conventional steady-state aerodynamics principles.

Engineers have developed the first insect-inspired vehicles opening the door to an entirely new class of machine:

In the 1970s Torkel Weis-Fogh a Danish zoologist at the University of Cambridge used high-speed photography to analyze the exact wing motions of hovering insects and compare them to the insects morphological features.

From this he formulated a general theory of insect flight which included what he called the clap-and-fling effect.

When insect wings clap together and then peel apart between the up and down strokes the motion flings air away

This vortex creates the force necessary to lift the insect between wing flaps. Similar vortices might be generated by the angle

Charles Ellington a Cambridge zoologist and former Weis-Fogh student built a robotic wing that could precisely mimic the movements of a hawk moth.

At the University of California at Berkeley neurobiologist Michael Dickinson built a robotic fruit-fly wing that likewise mimicked a fly s natural motion

Dickinson and electrical engineer Ron Fearing won a $2. 5-million DARPA grant in 1998 to apply these principles to a fly-size robot.

Flies have really complex wing trajectories. There are a whole bunch of subtle things that happen Wood says.

he had built a gyroscope that could mimic the sensors insects use to detect body rotation;

What remained was to put it all together into a working insect-size flying machine. On a freezing day in 2006 Wood arrived at his Oxford street laboratory at Harvard.

On the workbench sat a 60-milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan and a thorax roughly the size of a housefly.

and demonstrating for the first time stable hovering and controlled flight maneuvers in an insect-scale vehicle. I didn t end up sleeping the rest of that night Wood says.

Techject a company that spun off from work done at the Georgia Institute of technology recently unveiled a robotic dragonfly with a six-inch wingspan.

The Techject Dragonfly takes advantage of an aerodynamics principle called resonance. When wings flap at their most efficient frequency hich happens

After observing the fly at the bar the two engineers searched for someone with experience replicating insect flight.

By closely observing the positions of the flies body parts they could measure the exact flip and twist of wings and legs.

I thought the fly would tumble a bit and lose a lot of altitude Vaneck says. But the fly recovery was elegant.

Just before the moment of impact the fly flew at an angle that ensured its legs touched the glass first.

Every time the fly slammed into the window it reflexively surrendered to the crash momentum and fell.

Then its wings flapped again propelling the insect into a controlled hover. It can hit

in order to mimic the alternating wing speed that provides four-winged insects with exceptional control. When the vehicle is blown out of position

Unlike the much larger Instanteye Nano Hummingbird and Dragonfly drones Robobees must be connected to an external power source.

and insects are suited perfectly for environments where you have dynamic obstructions he trees are moving the branches are moving.

Today he runs a lab at the University of Washington and works with advanced imaging systems to study insect flight.

Fifteen years ago the flies looked like little fuzzy UFOS he says. Now the biologists use cameras that can run at 7500 frames per second significantly higher than what was once available to researchers and that work in infrared light.

he s using electrodes to record the activity of neurons in insects brains. He links them to a flight-simulation system and presents them with visual stimuli picture of a predator for instance hat cause them to react.

Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.

The method published under the title Transmitting Plant viruses Using Whiteflies is applicable to such at-risk crops as tomatoes and common bean plants.

The whitefly method provides a means of interfering with the plant-contamination process as well as the cultivation of plants that are altogether resistant to infection.

and her colleagues write that numerous genera of whitefly-transmitted plant viruses (such as Begomovirus Carlavirus Crinivirus Ipomovirus Torradovirus) are part of an emerging and economically significant group of pathogens affecting important food

The technique includes reliably rearing whiteflies with a specific virus while omitting the possibility of cross-contamination to other viruses--an easily encountered problem because of the sheer number of whiteflies used in testing.

Such contamination would jeopardize the results of an entire experiment. After exposing large numbers of a particular plant species to a specific whitefly-transmitted virus a researcher can then note which individual plants resisted infection and why.

This article outlines how to generate hundreds or thousands of infected plants year-round by exposing them to whiteflies each week.

Therefore the whitefly-assisted transmission method provides researchers with a powerful means for continued experimentation in developing plant defenses against the threat of whitefly-transmitted disease.

Polston said that she published this technique through Jove's video format because it was difficult to explain it through traditional text-only journals.

Famous weevils moths and borer beetles live in a very comfortable environment when in the middle of a silo or warehouse fill with grains.

This insects alongside some fungi bacteria and viruses cause annual loses of between four and ten percent of all the stored grains worldwide mainly corn wheat sorghum rice and beans.

The ozone removes the comfort zone of the insects making them unable to breathe and modifying the internal atmosphere of the room using this technique pest free grains are obtained during the whole purchase sale and storage cycle.

Changes among the plants can be seen as they respond to cabbage white butterfly caterpillars and stinkbugs introduced during the experiment.

Baker then learned that Lakhtakia was able to replicate certain biological materials such as fly eyes and butterfly wings.

and shape of emerald ash borers but did not attempt to duplicate the surface texture of the insects.

in order to help APHIS meet its goals of early detection and mitigation of invasive pests he said.

and assessed immediately by APHIS personnel rather than waiting days or weeks until a trap might usually be checked said Baker.

In addition the team has been investigating the use of the decoys to attract other insect species some

and use it for studies of insects or even small fish. One day he hopes to have a commercial instrument that can be used by biological researchers around the world.

These bats of which there are almost 200 species eat a variety of foods including insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood.

Insects frogs lizards fruit nectar and even blood. The bats'skulls of today reflect this dietary diversity.

today they are raising bugs and mice for the purpose of adding bite marks to pieces.

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¢Communal table areas,¢Benching areas,¢Hive configurations for the duration of a project,¢Individual workstations for focused tasks,

b (HIVE. The b (HIVE) represents oea building that becomes a part of an agile, adaptable business machine, somewhere between a hands-on community and the raw edge of technology.

Rounding out the (b) HIVE concept is the retail/third space on the ground floor, with a diverse mix of uses such as restaurants, studios, galleries, gyms, theatres, supermarkets, places of worship, medical facilities and community spaces,

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