Sentence examples similar to effort insect from inspiring English sources

The object of their concern is a $45 million research effort called "Insect Allies," run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, announced in November 2016 and expected to take four years.

By munching grasses most other plant-eaters consider not worth the effort, the insect thrives in overgrazed grasslands until its populations swell so much that they move onto crops and pastures, wreaking havoc on local farmers.

Try insects.

The assembly of the Hessian Fly Mde8i18 BAC clone was accomplished using highly stringent parameters [ 26, 27] as this was the first genomic sequence assembly effort in this insect.

Although a prevailing hypothesis is that the symptomatic daytime flight of WNS-affected bats outside caves and mines in mid-winter is the result of starving bats emerging from hibernation sites in a last-ditch effort to find insect prey [ 4], there is sufficient evidence to suggest that thirst may be driving these arousals.

Cane toads were introduced in Australia in the 1930s in an effort to control insects in sugar cane fields.

Efforts to enhance insect abundance in agricultural landscapes therefore need to increase the number of structural elements such as hedgerows, single trees and orchards.

Reade and Evans lead the lab's 'insect deliciousness' project, a three-year effort to turn insects – the creepy crawlies that most of us squash without a second thought – into tasty treats.

The restricted dispersal on a small spatial scale will make localized control efforts and sterile insect technology effective for dengue control.

Male-only releases can significantly improve per-male efficiency [ 22, 23] by concentrating the reproductive effort of released insects on wild females.

Although useful, Gal4-based enhancer-trapping systems have been developed for few insects other than D. melanogaster, yet such systems powerfully complement existing efforts to manipulate insect genomes and determine the function of insect genes (Brand and Perrimon 1993; Trauner et al. 2009; Uchino et al. 2008).