Sentence examples for attack fruit from inspiring English sources

The spring cankerworm (species Paleacrita vernata) and the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) attack fruit and shade trees, skeletonizing the leaves and spinning threads between the branches.

Pests and diseases attack fruits and vegetables from cultivation through to storage.

Larvae also can form extensive galleries in the stems and attack fruits.

In orchards, canopy-dwelling species are major actors of pest control because pests attack fruits and growing shoots within the canopy.

The peach twig borer (Anarsia lineatella) attacks fruit trees.

It also attacks fruit trees including cherry, apple, plum and pear.

The mycelium and oospores of P. litchii attacks fruits and causing panicle rot, withering and watery brown spots on fruits, finally sporulating and producing downy white sporangiophores at lately infection [4].

Importantly, female weevils avoid attacking fruits with relatively thick pericarps in populations in which they are subject to higher risks of failure in attacking such fruits due to low average probability of successful excavations [ 12].

This suggests HT induced a level of resistance to pathogens attacking fruits by causing a decline in fruit H2O2 content and by down-regulated scavenging ROS enzymes.

Mass fruiting appears to favour seed predators and allows them to attack the fruit on different parts of the inflorescence with the same frequency, but this strategy reduces fruiting time and ensures that some fruits avoid total seed destruction (Augspurger 1981; Pías and Guitián 2007; Gomes da Silva and Bezerra Pinheiro 2009).

Recent years have seen an outbreak of almond seed wasps, which attack the fruit of the almond tree.