(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(2) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(3) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
(4) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
(5) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.
(6) After removal of a transverse strip of ventral thorax from the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, interaction occurred between epidermis posterior to the mesothoracic leg and that anterior to the metathoracic leg.
(7) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(8) A hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiac of the two tenebrionid beetle species, Tenebrio molitor and Zophobas rugipes, was purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and its sequence determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman degradation after deblocking enzymatically the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue.
(9) Shortly after gamma irradiation, flour beetles exhibited a decline in resistance to oxygen toxicity.
(10) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(11) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
(12) Case records of 21 horses with acute illness following ingestion of hay containing dead striped blister beetles (Epicauta spp) were selected for review.
(13) This report reexamines experimentally the problem of competitive indeterminacy in mixed-species populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum.
(14) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
(15) However the plants are then attacked by pollen beetles, necessitating a further use of pyrethroids.
(16) The present analysis outlines how the shape of motoneurons which persist through metamorphosis in the beetle Tenebrio molitor is regulated by cellular interactions.
(17) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(18) Nesting birds were already protected, as were fenced-off areas for insects – 112 spider and 68 beetle species have been identified at Tempelhof.
(19) In staphyliniformic beetles, as in other Coleoptera, the number of type III and V neurosecretory cells is equal to 4.
(20) Glossopharyngeal nerve stimulation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, revealed responsiveness to low levels of cantharidin (1.3 x 10(-6) M), providing a first demonstration of neural gustatory sensitivity of an animal to this defensive chemical from blister beetles (Meloidae).
Bumblebee
Definition:
(n.) A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many bumblebees and solitary bees have evolved to pollinate certain flowers.
(2) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(3) The British habit of putting up nest boxes for birds has led to a population explosion of the tree bumblebee Bombus hypnorum.
(4) If you watch a female honeybee or bumblebee on a flower, you will see she has balls of pollen on her back legs.
(5) An earlier version said that the tree bumblebee is distinguished from other bumblebees because it always has a white tail, which is not seen in any British species.
(6) A grandmother of five, Jones sports a discrete shrill carder bumblebee tattoo on her shoulder courtesy of taking part in a green art project.
(7) Draghi used a speech in London to declare that the euro was a bumblebee (it shouldn’t be able to fly, but it can ).
(8) High intraspecific variability in all parameters characterizing digging behavior of the bumblebees was also recorded.
(9) Why it matters: It is not just honeybees that pollinate crops and flowers, bumblebees and solitary bees do too.
(10) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(11) Of 25 native bumblebee species, seven are in decline and two have been declared extinct, including the short-haired bumblebee.
(12) Studies suggest that bumblebees provide $3bn (£1.8bn) worth of flower pollination annually in the US alone, while honeybees provide closer to $20bn (£12bn), Berenbaum said.
(13) We have less information for pollinators like bumblebees and for these species we take a precautionary and conservative approach in applying an additional safety factor for ensuring their protection, and that of other species.” More than a quarter of European bumblebees – and nearly one in 10 of all honeybees – are at risk of extinction, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s red list for bees .
(14) The resulting diminishing in bumblebee colony size and health can’t be translated immediately to real-world colonies.
(15) British species do often have white tails, it is, however, the combination of white tail and ginger thorax that distinguishes the tree bumblebee from others.
(16) By planting nectar and pollen-rich flowers throughout the year you can help all types of bees, not just honeybees but also wild bumblebees and solitary bees.
(17) She then rapidly contracts the flight muscles to produce the vibration, without beating her wings.” The researchers took two colonies of bumblebees in a laboratory setting and split the bees in each into three groups.
(18) The project, which is backed by government conservation agency Natural England and wildlife groups the RSPB, Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Hymettus, has involved four years of groundwork with farmers to create flower-rich meadows and field margins in Dungeness and Romney Marsh.
(19) While most bumblebees are wild, some species are increasingly used commercially to buzz pollinate.
(20) The tree bumblebee, as its name suggests, normally nests in holes in trees, but finds bird boxes the perfect habitat and has taken full advantage of the thousands of nesting opportunities provided by British bird lovers.