Sentence examples for apple maggot from inspiring English sources

Their Gates grant is renewed for two years, but they now have a contract with Bayer CropSciences to screen its two million compounds — the same smell mechanism is used by corn borers, apple maggot flies and other farm pests.

In work that blended the laboratory and farm orchard, Dr. Prokopy, who taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, studied the behavior of the apple maggot fly, a parasite that bores into fruit and destroys it.

"Ron Prokopy worked out the behavior of the flies and found the pests' weak spots, in effect minimizing costs to the farmers," said Dr. Guy L. Bush, an evolutionary biologist at Michigan State University, who had a lengthy collaboration with Dr. Prokopy in studying the apple maggot fly.

In addition, some of the flies' proteins contained patterns seen in both the apple maggot and blueberry maggot species.

He noticed that flies that infest Lonicera honeysuckles looked like those of two closely related species, the apple maggot fly and the blueberry maggot fly.

In fact, scientists suspect that in the apple maggot fly, we are catching a rare glimpse of speciation in its early stages usually we only find out about such speciation events after the fact!

I labored mightily for several years to cultivate, first, organic apples; then minimally sprayed apples (spraying only in response to a pest invasion); and finally in desperation for home-grown fruit, I surrendered the high moral ground to the apple maggots, codling moths and fungi that were destroying my trees, and resorted to prophylactic application of a chemical wide-spectrum orchard spray.

Codling moths and apple maggots are two other pests which affect apple trees.

She also took photos of the apple and maggot, and gave them to Morrisons who offered her a refund and some gift vouchers.

Twenty-five-year-old Vanessa had taken two bites out of the apple when she discovered the maggot.

"There's the temptation to throw you totally off, and tell you that we all live in a massive apple, and that I play a human maggot hybrid or something," he says.