Collectors of minerals, insects, seashells, and plants may use microscopes as tools to uncover features that help them classify their collected items.

In grade school Lipscomb collected animals, insects, pets, rocks, and minerals.

He joined the Mechanics ' Institute ( which had a library ), studied in his spare time, and collected insects in Charnwood Forest.

Fleets of helicopters sprayed malathion at night, and the California National Guard set up highway checkpoints and collected many tons of local fruit ; in the final stage of the campaign, entomologists released millions of sterile male medflies in an attempt to disrupt the insects ' reproductive cycle.

His first published work appeared in 1745, entitled Traité d ' insectologie, in which were collected his various discoveries regarding insects, along with a preface on the development of germs and the scale of organized beings.

Impaled specimens of insects, spiders, butterflies, moths, scorpions, and similar organisms are collected, preserved, and displayed in this manner in private, academic, and museum collections around the world.

After five days, the young are fed mashed insects with the milk, which are collected and transported in the cheek pouches of the female.

Shells, insects, exotic fruits and flowers began to be collected and traded, and new plants such as the tulip ( imported to Europe from Turkey ), were celebrated in still life paintings.

Bonus items such as fertilizer and spades appear on unoccupied ledges which will increase both the players score and the plants growth rate, however as the alien insects also appear from the ledges, and bonus items can only be collected if Robbie is not holding a can of pesticide, it is a risk to collect them.

Its main source of food is honeydew collected from aphids and other insects.

* List of the lepidopterous insects collected in Cachar by Mr. Wood-Mason, by J. Wood-Mason and Lionel de Nicéville.

Once collected, a killing jar is used to kill required insects before they damage themselves trying to escape. However, killing jars are generally only used on hard-bodied insects.

On that occasion, he presented his own cabinet of insects, collected over more than 40 years, which contained many of the specimens figured in his papers.

She collected butterflies as a hobby and had several books filled with the insects.

He collected insects, chiefly Lepidoptera from Bombay, Poona, Mhow and Karachi Districts.

George Mottershead collected animals such as lizards and insects that arrived with exotic plants imported by the business.

Small insects ( e. g., Drosophila ) may be gently collected and held against the filter by steady inhalation, and transferred into a container by then blowing the insect ( s ) out.

( Being a collected edition of his writings on that group of insects.

Coquerel collected insects in Madagascar and neighbouring islands.

Seeds should be collected as early as possible, or they can be predated by insects.

For those who want to know what insects they are catching in the day versus the night, the specimens should be collected and removed at dawn and dusk.

They collected plant foods and insects, fished and hunted.

As many as 1000 different insects have been collected from one tree.

During this long trip he collected many plants and animals.

The plants are ‘ tapped ’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber.

It contains a collection of nearly 750, 000 pressed plants, collected over the garden's two-hundred-year history.

He steadily created a renowned botanical masterpiece on the estate, achieved primarily with many of the great variety of foreign plants he had collected on his extensive travels around the world, particularly to Australia and the South Seas.

The Bounty remained in Tahiti for five idyllic months, during which over 1000 plants were collected, potted and transferred to the ship.

In 1791, Bligh commanded a second expedition with the Providence and the Assistant, which collected live breadfruit plants in Tahiti and transported these to St Helena, in the Atlantic, and St Vincent and Jamaica in the West Indies.

Ibn Bassal then founded a garden in Seville, most of its plants being collected on a botanical expedition that included Morocco, Persia, Sicily and Egypt.

This herbarium consisted of duplicates sorted out from Linnaeus ' personal herbarium and other plants collected by his son.

Frémont collected a number of plants on his expeditions, including the first recorded discovery of the Single-leaf Pinyon by a European American.

On April 23, 2009, Lindsey Graham ( R-South Carolina ) and eight other senators introduced legislation to provide " rebates " from a $ 30 billion federally managed fund into which nuclear power plants had been paying, so as to refund all collected funds if the project was in fact cancelled by Congress.

In his two years of travel, Lamarck collected rare plants that were not available in the Royal Garden, and also other objects of natural history, such as minerals and ores, that were not found in French museums.

Since all native sundews species are protected in many parts of Europe and North America, extracts are usually prepared using cultivated fast-growing sundews ( specifically D. rotundifolia, D. intermedia, D. anglica, D. ramentacea and D. madagascariensis ) or from plants collected and imported from Madagascar, Spain, France, Finland and the Baltics.

Edward Bach thought that dew collected from the flowers of plants contains some of the properties of the plant, and that it was more potent on flowers grown in the sun.

He collected plants and animals while staying with Jiang, a supportive Chinese vegetable storekeeper.

In January 1892 he returned to Jacksonville and worked on the plants he had collected in Florida and Cuba at Jiang's.

The market offers many plants such as orchids that have been collected and farmed across the province.

Fruits are mostly collected from wild plants growing on publicly accessible lands, notably Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, parts of England, Alpine countries, Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and northern parts of Turkey and Russia.

As a botanist, Smuts collected plants extensively over southern Africa.

In 1820 – 1825, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, he collected thousands of specimens of plants and animals.

* Water: Tradition holds it that the medicinal plants mentioned above are most effective when dipped in water collected from seven different springs.

This was an important use in the Ria de Aveiro, Portugal, where the plants collected were known as moliço.

" In this voyage of fourteen weeks I collected those few plants upon Van Diemen's Land which had not been familiar to me in New South Wales ," he wrote to Banks, " and have done myself the honour of submitting them to your inspection.