Because when you look at the wing of an insect, the wing is nearly inert.
The air was thick with the din of an insect chorus, while the wind arrived in waves through the bush.
Herbicide tolerant crops are made resistant to a proprietary weedkiller, while Bt crops include genes that produce an insect-killing toxin.
It is a rare politician who would dare to suggest that an insect might have an important lesson for today's society.
Technology could help direct an insect to chemicals such as in roadside bombs, he said, but controlling full flight was "a long way off".
The second drone, an insect-like quadrotor called Parc, is designed for higher flying missions thanks to its larger size and maximum 1, 000-foot altitude.
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Watching her inspect the carcass of an insect on my windowsill one afternoon, I found myself thinking, I have fallen in love with your strangeness.
The cause of Chagas disease is the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans from a bite from an insect known as the triatomine bug.
But scientists at the Natural History Museum found an insect egg case inside the skull which they said proved the animal had not died on the moors.
Having been stung by the tiny pests, I couldn't believe some marketing genius could get away with naming any product after an insect with such a bad reputation.
The secret, the researchers report in the open access journal Plos Computational Biology, is in their ability to take cues from one another - just like an insect swarm.
Candy watched her for a while, as if studying an insect, noting the little flutters of her eyelids and lips, her long, corded neck, the muscles of which seemed tense, even in sleep.
It begins as a raised itchy bump that resembles an insect bite, but soon turns into a painless ulcer, usually one to three centimeters in diameter usually with a black center in the middle.
Despite meagre resources, the duo have devised a creative flower-petal design that will right their vehicle if it flips over during the race, in much the same way that an insect gets back on its feet when turned over.
D-shaped holes in the bark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.
Once, the staff disinfected the entire building when she found an irksome insect in her flat.
The Insectarium's Web site boasts of trips through the Louisiana swamp, an animated insect film and a special exhibit where you'll be shrunk to insect size.
And even here in this captive breeding program, an invasive insect has meant that in the past two years, only one baby tortoise, named Genesis, has hatched successfully.
Her shoulder-length brown hair was usually straight and parted in the middle, though sometimes she pulled it back and gathered it in a big dark clip that looked like an enormous insect.
Interesting also, that Ehrlich was not an economist, agronomist or even demographer but rather an etymologist, an expert in insect biology.
When Paul Reiter, an expert on insect-borne diseases at the Pasteur Institute, begged to differ pointing out that malaria's range was shrinking and was limited by factors other than temperature he had an uphill struggle.
Researchers there have been offering an insight into how the insect is playing a big part in medical science.
Each eyelet would appear to produce an inverted image that the insect's neural set-up must then process and correct.
That means that Wolbachia in a male insect is in an evolutionary dead-end.
Insect collecting is an old enough hobby for evolution to be seen in action, by comparing the cabinets of the past with those of the present.
The scientists tethered the moth inside an arena that simulated the environment around the insect moving up and down.
"If you think about plant and insect interaction, what we have is almost like an arms race between the two, " suggested John Gatehouse, from the University of Durham's Institute of Plant and Microbial Science.
His chance to flee their Dickensian gloom comes with the appearance of a magic peach in the garden: he crawls inside, where he finds a posse of insect friends, and travels by air and sea to an improbably benign New York.
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