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But this pitcher species has an ingredient called coniine in its nectar, a powerful narcotic to insects.
These long flower stalks keep certain insects away from the carnivore’s traps— a way of separating pollinators from food.
Orchids emerged, genitalia shaped to lure insects ... a trick shared by the largest flower on Earth.
Co-evolution entwined insects and birds and plants forever.
He said, "If all the insects disappeared, life on Earth as we know it would disappear within 50 years.
Many animals and insects can actually see UV light, but we can't.
Researchers are working on fish feed made of insects and plant-based proteins, but for now many inland fish farms are connected to overfishing.
This combination of sensitivity and dexterity gave our ancestors the precise motor control needed to snatch up insects, pinch berries and seeds, and keep a firm grip on slim branches.
These generative algorithms grow over time, and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects.
Fermentation gives rise to multispecies interactions of bacteria and fungi, plants, insects, animals and humans: in other words, whole ecosystems.
But until then, the queen must hunt down smaller insects to feed her brood, all while expanding the hive, laying eggs, and defending against intruders.
Sitting at the top of the local invertebrate food chain, these insects keep spiders, mites, and centipedes, in check.
Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens.
So in the last decade, a large number of genomes have been added: most human pathogens, a couple of plants, several insects and several mammals, including the human genome.
One of the largest consultants are the social insects.
Today's best variety is tomorrow's lunch for insects or pests or disease.
I was afraid of lightning, insects, loud noises and costumed characters.
Or the bog turtle, needing wet meadows and insects and sunny places.
There was a wonderful quote by Jonas Salk, who said, "If all the insects were to disappear from the Earth, within 50 years, all life on Earth would end.
Michel is currently working in our labs to investigate the effects of climate change on insects, for his PhD, and has already secured his post-doctorate fellowship that will enable him to stay on the continent.
These little insects, it's the same ones we see out here [in India], two inches long, five centimeters long, flying in their millions, 400 miles across the ocean, at 2,000 meters up.
And I know because when you look at the rainfall, these particular insects, these Globe Skimmers breed in temporary rain water pools.
And every one of these birds that makes the crossing from India to East Africa eats insects, large insects, the size of dragonflies.
And one of my favorites is the Itoki Fluctus, who is the Nicaraguan goddess of insects, stars, and planets.
Now, if you're a goddess of stars and planets wouldn't you relegate insects to somebody else? (Laughter) "No, no, really, I'm so busy with the stars.
Would you mind taking the insects?
I know they're not insects, but I don't care.
But plants work the same way and insects work the same way, and this apple works the same way.
And if we're more concerned about our fellow primates than we are about insects, as indeed we are, it's because we think they're exposed to a greater range of potential happiness and suffering.
And if we have misconstrued the relationship between biological complexity and the possibilities of experience well then we could be wrong about the inner lives of insects.
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