Sentence examples for close to crop from inspiring English sources

Whenever the elephants ventured close to crop fields, they tripped an infrared beam, triggering playbacks of the growls.

Plant species richness and the cover of plant species taxonomically close to crop plants had a small influence on herbivores and natural enemies in wheat whereas related wild Brassicaceae increased herbivory and decreased herbivore regulation in oilseed rape.

All collection sites were characterized for having their environments disturbed by human activity (close to crop cultivation areas, pasture or urban environments), although in Maringá the vegetation of the sampled site was denser than in the other places.

Exposure monitoring was carried out over two years (2005 and 2006) following historical and subsequent applications in Italian vineyards and to investigate the presence of residue in non-target areas close to the crop receiving repeated applications.

In order to delay the development of pest resistance to genetically engineered insecticidal crop varieties, it is current practice to grow "refuges" of non-toxic plants close to insecticidal crops.

It said Pioneer's plot was in the wrong spot and too close to other crops.

Drift was reduced by increasing the size of the droplets produced particularly close to the cropping zones.

Soil degradation caused by vegetable farming was assessed by comparing soil properties in 69 vegetable fields with values at reference sites located close to the cropped fields.

So, the appropriate place to have sex is out in the woods, where you're not too close to the crops.

In Brittany, where winter agricultural landscape is dominated by a mosaic of cereal and sown cover crops, we assessed the consequences of mustard (Synapis alba) flowering cover crops (MFCC) on aphid parasitism and food web structure in plots adjoining cereal crops, in contrast to plots close to spontaneous non-crop plants (SNCP) of the same field.

Relatively large proportions of H. variegata and M. tasmaniae were marked, especially close to the non-crop vegetation though also extending 100 m into the crop, indicating predator immigration into the crop.