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"I think it is amazing that despite all the years of intensive study there are still massive discoveries to be made about fundamental honey-bee physiology such as the ability to paralyse small insects and mites, " he said.
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But researchers think its origins lie further down the food chain - in plants, small mammals or insects.
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These features are particularly useful for getting up close with a Super-Resolution Zoom of up to 48x zoom magnification at full resolution, capturing a series of images of a fast-moving subject with high-speed sequential shooting, or in Telephoto Macro mode when users are shooting the rich detail of small subjects like insects from inches away.
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In the wild, adult night monkeys eat leaves, insects and small lizards and frogs.
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Van Engelsdorp poked around inside it, looking for signs of wax moths or small hive beetles, insects that prey on weak colonies, but found none.
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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.
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Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to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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Unlike many insects that feed on a small group or even a single plant, the brown marmorated stink bugs, which originated in Asia, eat pretty much anything.
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Insects tend to crawl into small, dark, moist spaces.
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Look for seed-like droppings, immature stages of insects (such as larvae), egg sacks (which can resemble small bean bags) and anything moving.
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