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In other bombardier beetles, the muscles stopping leakage have a flap forming a valve to ensure that the pressure pushes the discharge out, and muscles controlling the outlet have developed nozzles that can direct an explosive reaction to squirt the deterrent chemicals at an attacker.
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With only seconds to go before the bomber had to pull up, to avoid hitting the hillside at the other end of the dam, the bombardier George Johnson had no time to correct the bomb's height and heading.
With experienced Chinese engineers and bombardier corps who were experts in building trebuchets, Xuanfeng catapults and other machines, the Mongols could lay siege to fortified positions, sometimes building machinery on the spot using available local resources.
In the British Royal Navy and navies of many other Commonwealth counties, the equivalent rank is " able seaman ", although this is considered junior to the nearest equivalent ranks of corporal or bombardier in the other military branches.
As all of the controls were located on the right, and had to be operated while sighting through the telescope, another problem with the Norden is that the bombardier could only adjust either the vertical or horizontal aim at a given time, his other arm was normally busy holding himself up above the telescope.
In 1943, Kirtland Field facilities expanded to support existing bombardier training plus other training missions.
Initially, three different flight profiles for the Hound Dog were available for selection by the commander and the bombardier of the bomber ( though other options were added later ):
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Pigweed can be a beneficial weed, as well as a companion plant, serving as a trap for leaf miners and some other pests, as well as sheltering ground beetles ( which prey upon insect pests ) and breaking up hard soil for more delicate neighboring plants.
For example, beetles in the family Coccinellidae (" ladybirds " or " ladybugs ") consume aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops.
These elytra distinguish beetles from most other insect species, except for the Dermaptera.
The diet of foxes is largely made up of invertebrates and small mammals, reptiles ( such as snakes ), amphibians, scorpions, grasses, berries, fruit, fish, birds, eggs, dung beetles, insects and all other kinds of small animals.
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker feeds mainly on the larvae of wood-boring beetles, but also eats seeds, fruit, and other insects.
Several other insect groups appeared during the Permian, including the Coleoptera ( beetles ) and Hemiptera ( true bugs ).
The bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt ) naturally produces a chemical harmful only to a small fraction of insects, most notably the larvae of moths and butterflies, beetles, and flies, and harmless to other forms of life.
Since then, circular polarization has been measured in several other scarab beetles like Chrysina gloriosa, as well as some crustaceans such as the mantis shrimp.
They feed on a greater diversity of prey than other members of the Panthera species, and will eat anything from dung beetles to male giant elands, though prey usually weighs considerably less than.
Accumulation of fallen leaves, as well as other detritus caught from the passing wind, creates an ecological community specific to the creosote bush canopy, including beetles, millipedes, pocket mice, and kangaroo rats.
Seeds are the natural diet, but beetles and other insects are eaten when feeding young.
Like other beetles inhabiting carrion, they have fast larval development with only three larval stages.
Also, it is more likely that rove beetles and other non-flying insects will be found here instead of directly on the body.
Whilst this elm has little innate resistance to Dutch elm disease, it is not favoured by the vector bark beetles and thus only becomes colonized and infected when there are no other choices, a rare situation in western Europe.
* Photos of Rose chafer-Cetonia aurata and other flower beetles.
Male stag beetles use their jaws to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites in a manner that parallels the way stags fight over females.
In this way it secures its food, usually aquatic invertebrates including caddis worms and other aquatic insect larvae, beetles, Limnaea, Ancylus and other freshwater molluscs, and also small fish.
Unlike other beetles of the same genus, instead of burying the carcass, they remove the soil from underneath it, allowing it to sink underground.
Like many other insect orders, beetles have claws at the end of each leg, called tarsi that help in walking and climbing.
Some species will eat beetles and other insects they come across, but they can not eat hard seeds.
It is an important refuge for other wildlife, including woodpeckers, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, frogs, toads, stag beetles and many other insects plus numerous ancient trees and varieties of fungi.
It provides a habitat for many other invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.
A good example of this is the soldier beetle which is frequently found on flowers as an adult, but whose larvae eat aphids, caterpillars, grasshopper eggs, and other beetles.
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Apart from the standard problem of controlling the vaginal muscles, other serious barriers may exist that need special gynecological treatment.
In the form of proteins, amino acids comprise the second largest component other than water of human muscles, cells and other tissues.
The larger muscles of the animals were roasted and served with currant sauce, while the other smaller portions went into soups, stews, sausages, pies, and pasties.
General surgeons also remove tumors that often grow just below the skin such as fatty tumors or tumors that arise in muscles or other soft tissues.
The control center then sends signals to an effector, which can be muscles, organs or other structures that receive signals from the control center.
Sudden falls, sometimes resulting in major injury to the skull or other bones, can occur, even from walking on minimally-irregular ground or from other minor imbalances outside or in the home, due to weakness of quadriceps and gluteus muscles depriving the patient of automatic posture maintenance.
Ligaments are similar to tendons and fasciae as they are all made of collagen except that ligaments join one bone to another bone, tendons join muscle to bone and fasciae connect muscles to other muscles.
As an artist, he quickly became master of topographic anatomy, drawing many studies of muscles, tendons and other visible anatomical features.
* Class II: Eye muscle weakness of any severity, mild weakness of other muscles
* Class III: Eye muscle weakness of any severity, moderate weakness of other muscles
* Class IV: Eye muscle weakness of any severity, severe weakness of other muscles
MRI provides good contrast between the different soft tissues of the body, which makes it especially useful in imaging the brain, muscles, the heart, and cancers compared with other medical imaging techniques such as computed tomography ( CT ) or X-rays.
* Stage III: Sixteen to twenty-four hours after last dose: Rhinorrhea ( runny nose ) and increase in other of the above, dilated pupils, piloerection ( gooseflesh ), muscle twitches, hot flashes, cold flashes, aching bones and muscles, loss of appetite and the beginning of intestinal cramping.
Many neurons extrude long thin filaments of protoplasm called axons, which may extend to distant parts of the body and are capable of rapidly carrying electrical signals, influencing the activity of other neurons, muscles, or glands at their termination points.
Motor neurons, situated either in the central nervous system or in peripheral ganglia, connect the nervous system to muscles or other effector organs.
These include sensory neurons that transmute physical stimuli such as light and sound into neural signals, and motor neurons that transmute neural signals into activation of muscles or glands ; however in many species the great majority of neurons receive all of their input from other neurons and send their output to other neurons.
X-rays, for example, pass through muscles and other soft tissue but are stopped by dense materials.
The hyoid bone, which is located in the neck and serves as the point of attachment for the tongue, does not articulate with any other bones in the body, being supported by muscles and ligaments.
Many of the highly aquatic species, however, have no muscles in the tongue, and do not use it for capturing prey, while most other species have a mobile tongue, but without the adaptations to the hyoid bone.
The walls of the vagina are composed of soft elastic folds of mucous membrane which stretch or contract ( with support from pelvic muscles ) to the size of the inserted penis or other object, stimulating the penis and helping to cause the male to experience orgasm and ejaculation, thus enabling fertilization.
These include all kinds of muscular strain in the speech organs, similarly as usage of any other muscles will experience strain if used for an extended period of time.
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