Sentence examples for destroy plants from inspiring English sources

Some are deliberately applied to bodies of water to destroy plants, insect larvae, or undesired fish.

Large arboreal birds may break plants by their weight, and some others may destroy plants by eating the leaves.

The omnivorous feral hogs, brought to the island for hunting, destroy plants as well as the eggs of birds, reptiles and sea turtles.

While it has long been against the rules to collect or destroy plants in the city's parks, with potential fines of $250, the city has preferred education to enforcement.

Caterpillars destroy plants by feeding on leaves, flowers, and fruits.

A little insect damage isn't anything to worry about, but at times some kinds of pests, including aphids, whiteflies, scale insects and caterpillars, reach high population levels in the garden and must be dealt with before they destroy plants.

An exhaustive environmental analysis reveals the project will destroy plant and animal habitats, and the dam will threaten the lives and livelihoods of people downriver, some of whom depend on ecotourism dollars.

The direct effect is enough to suffocate some air breathers, to destroy plant foliage, and to dissolve the shells of marine creatures living along shores and in the surface waters of the ocean.

The main function of pectinases is to destroy plant tissue and cell wall structure to allow other depolymerases accession to enhance the productivity [3].

Loss of land to development can force animals out of their territories and destroy plant biodiversity.

Since the Mcl1 homolog ClCE5 showed a necrotrophy-specific transcriptional activation, it may promote in planta fungal proliferation by inducing cell death, thereby facilitating fast growth of secondary hyphae that further kill and destroy plant tissues during the necrotrophic phase.