The Schmallenberg virus is carried by insects and was first detected in Germany 18 months ago.
Ms Pape's tribal garment has red cloth filled with feather-covered balls extruding body parts and surrounded by insects.
They added that the locations were also favoured by insects, which were an important food source for amphibians and reptiles.
The design of the Kilobot is inspired by insects, which are capable of swarming behaviors to look for food, transport large objects, build structures, etc.
Applied to the soil, sprayed on the crop or used as a seed treatment, they eventually reach the pollen and nectar, which is ingested by insects, discouraging pests from wrecking havoc on crops.
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"Some could have been bitten by insects such as mosquitoes, and in other cases there were moles, or skin pigmentation, and we couldn't find a needle puncture wound, " said Wang, speaking at the news conference.
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Spread by biting insects such as midges and mosquitoes, there is no known treatment.
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The hospital has also been hit by a number of cases of scabies, a skin disorder caused by tiny insects burrowing under the skin.
The trees are being attacked by a fungus that can be transmitted by wind, insects and rain splash.
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First, mistletoe weakens (and sometimes kills) its host trees, opening them to infestations by wood-boring insects and similar critters.
This is done in the early evening, and later lantern in hand, you go about from tree to tree and tap into your net the insects stupefied by the sweet but fatal sirup.
It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.
Dr Brereton added that there was a possibility that some colonies might be wiped out altogether this winter if they had succumbed to factors such as predation by small mammals or other insects.
Theories abound that male self-sacrifice may be a logical extension of the practice employed by many animals, including insects and spiders, of the male bringing a gift of food to encourage the female to mate.
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The scientists also believe that unlike with insecticides, where as many as 80% of mosquitoes are no longer killed by the compounds, the insects are unlikely to develop resistance to the fungus as it targets many different genes in the parasite.
Efforts to create an army of cyborg insects are being pursued by a team of US-based engineers.
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This has particularly disturbing implications for human health because the range of many disease-transmitting insects is limited chiefly by nighttime temperatures.
Of greater risk to humans is the exposure to thousands of pesticides made naturally by plants (to kill herbivorous insects) and found in all fruits and vegetables.
Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to explore hard-to-reach spaces and track down suspects.
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And they are in decline, because they eat insects whose numbers have been cut by modern farming methods.
Even homeowners call attention to themselves by building houses that look like giant stick insects or medieval castles.
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He became fascinated by sex ratios: why did so many insects produce sex ratios that were wildly skewed, sometimes 50 females to every male?
The bad news is that insects and annual weeds that are reduced by cold winters will abound.
By the ninth generation, 70% of the insects were carrying it.
In recent years, some scientists have argued that such selfish genetic elements serve the greater good in the long run by making species more "evolvable, " like insects, and that this explains their existence.
Some are remembered as genuine heroes, such as the researchers led by Walter Reed who in 1900 let themselves be bitten by mosquitoes carrying yellow fever, to prove that the insects carried the disease.
The deceased insects, according to Fumiko, had been forgotten by the rest of the universe.
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