Sentence examples for measures of insect from inspiring English sources
We cover the 'tried and true' measures of insect cold tolerance, the equipment necessary for these measurement, and summarize the ecological and biological significance of each.
This survey investigates the reliability of a rapid method to detect which high taxonomic level of epigeal insects could best distinguish different farming systems in olive agroecosystems, taking into account three higher taxonomic categories as surrogate measures of insect diversity: orders for all the insects, families of Coleoptera and carabid morphospecies.
Unfortunately, direct measures of insect mitochondrial effective population size have not yet been investigated.
An opto-electronic system has been developed to measure movements of insect appendages.
How dark the blood turns is a measure of the insect's ability to mount an effective immune response, a relationship that has been documented in other invertebrates.
Thus, as a measure of "the insect disturbance", we will use a relative difference between the integral spectra (shown in Fig. 2c) in regions (3) and (1).
As a measure of "the insect disturbance", we used three relative differences (I3-I1)/I1*100%, where I3 was averaged with 40 50sec, 50 60 sec, and 60 70 sec (I1 was averaged 0 5 sec in all measurements).
ECI is generally a measure of an insect's capability to exploit the food ingested for growth [ 48].
As exposure to rickettsial infections are high among the military, preventive measures such as use of insect repellents and doxycycline prophylaxis should be strongly recomended for them.
As an adjunct to personal protective measures such as use of insect repellents, several yard-based interventions have been proposed to reduce tick abundance in the home environment.
These simple measures include the use of insect repellents, the minimization of skin surface exposed to mosquito bites, the elimination of standing water where mosquitoes can lay eggs, and the installation of window and door screens.
