Sentence examples for borer from inspiring English sources

It affects only the larvae of butterflies and moths, and it is put into maize to ward off a moth called the European corn borer.

His last book, "The Ash Tree", was written in response to the outbreak of the Chalara fungus; but a greater threat loomed from America's emerald ash borer which, having killed so many trees there, must one day land in England.It worried him that there were not more plant pathologists to keep watch.

One of their fears was that the pests which farmers most want to kill off, such as the European corn borer, would develop resistance to the Bt toxin in GM plants.However, studies of Bt cotton in America and China have shown that, after seven years of commercial planting, the target pests are still as vulnerable to the toxin as ever.

They also fear, not unreasonably, that the added gene might be transferred from the crop plant to relatives in the field.American maize farmers like Bt plants, crediting them with keeping levels of their chief pest, the European corn borer, so low as to benefit both GM and unmodified varieties.

The equally lethal effects on green lacewings got much less publicity, yet these insects do a useful job by feeding on the corn borer.

Now Massachusetts has become the latest state to impose a quarantine on ash-wood in an effort to halt its spread.The emerald ash borer has already wrought havoc in 17 other states and in Canada, depleting stocks of a valuable hardwood used to make baseball bats, flooring, tool handles and kitchen cabinets, among other things.

Commercial preparations of diatomaceous earth did as well as the organophosphate in all cases bar one (a beetle called the lesser grain borer in sorghum).

The Oahe mole was partly inspired by work on a pilot tunnel in chalk started under the English Channel for which an air-powered rotary cutting arm, the Beaumont borer, had been invented.

The corn-borer moth, native to Central and North America, first appeared in Europe in 1999 in Kosovo, presumably on the boots of American peacekeepers.

One raise-borer was American-owned and -operated.

On September 5, Plan B was initiated using the second raise-borer.