Sentence examples for an insect population from inspiring English sources

Trials have shown that such releases could reduce an insect population by up to 90%, he said.

The number of generations produced by an insect population in a year naturally accounts for a good part of the difference, and this varies with species and climate.

"He excavated about two dozen larvae, which is small for an insect population, but that's all we were comfortable taking," Dr. Goldstein said.

The difference between the "wireless" network of an insect population and an engineered wireless sensor network is that insects encode messages with semiochemicals (also known as infochemicals) rather than with radio frequencies; in addition, the computing node is the individual insect powered by its brain, sensory and neuromotor systems, rather than a microchip-powered sensor.

"It is very unusual for research to uncover such a simple mechanism that can explain almost all of the variation in growth rate of an insect population," one of the study's co-authors, David W. Inouye, a biology professor at the University of Maryland, said in a statement.

Hence we would expect never to find an insect population containing a double-infection of unidirectionally incompatible strains.

Imagine for a moment that a hostile actor could crash the harvest of an island state by quietly introducing a gene drive or could insert a gene drive into a biting insect population to deliver toxins.

The breeding season overlaps the wet season, which corresponds to an increased insect population.

This hypothesis has never been tested in a wild insect population.

This study is the first to examine fertility benefits associated with female multiple mating in a wild insect population.

Any alteration in one of these steps could result in the development of resistance to one or several Cry proteins in a given insect population.