Sentence examples for communities of insects from inspiring English sources

But if all goes as planned, the population of bedbugs across the city stands to fall in the years ahead as communities of insects are drenched in pesticides, yanked from crevices and scorched in dryers.

In recent years, ecologists have come to realize the influence that plant genetic factors can have on associated communities of insects, microbes, or herbivores, and that these interactions can lead to altered ecosystem functions.

Because of their longevity and their very large geographic distribution, oaks are also key drivers of terrestrial biodiversity as they harbour large communities of insects, fungi, and vertebrates [ 4].

A first support to the hypothesis that endosymbiosis does impact communities of insect species competing with each other would be that endosymbiotic profiles vary with respect to the host species.

We discuss the mechanisms possibly accounting for the contrasted infection patterns observed across these sibling species and the ways by which endosymbiosis may contribute to structuring communities of insect species competing with each other.

This study site was intentionally selected to assay the community of insects naturally attracted to cultivars in a large, landscaped urban garden.

Incorporating division of labour and complex communication pathways, communities of social insects are a prime example of social organisation.

We adopted a somewhat atypical approach, surveying communities of predatory insects on 73 free-growing Brassica oleracea plants, and then re-constructing each community in field cages to measure its impact on aphid prey.

This study provides evidence that interactions mediated by ecosystem engineering may be a common factor enhancing species richness and structuring communities of borer insects.

Xylanase activities were detected and expressed from metagenome libraries representing the microbial communities of an insect gut [ 41], and the waste water from a dairy farm [ 42].

In this study, the authors selected and cloned 22 silver birch genotypes and planted them at two common garden sites to examine the effects of both genetic and environmental factors on the community structure of insect herbivores.