Sentence examples for devastating plants from inspiring English sources

Though the act is the sole federal defense against the importing of potentially devastating plants and animals, it covers only 20 groups of organisms.

In the most heavily affected areas, the invading worms have devastated plants and turned a forest floor once carpeted with leaf litter into bare soil.

Root disease (Sclerotium rolfsii?) devastated plant populations in Cornell open field plantings, and less so in the tunnel.

But recently, a tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world.

Now, there is evidence that a warming climate may be linked to one of the major threats facing the coffee industry in Ethiopia and elsewhere: A tiny insect known as the coffee berry borer beetle has been devastating coffee plants around the world, and new research suggests even slight temperature increases promote the spread of the pest.

Hundreds of thousands of cicada larvae will not only have devastated the plants' roots, but the adult insects will also transmit a fatal micro-bacterium that will make the plants slowly wither and die.

They also devastated indigenous plants and animals, shaping much of California's now iconic landscape of hillsides barren of all but oaks and dry grass.

Winters can be devastating on potted plants because the cold temperature can freeze the soil and kill plant roots.

Leaves can clop up the filter, tubes or pipes, devastating rows of plants.

Oomycetes include devastating pathogens of plants and animals that can be found in almost all ecosystems and show a variety of different lifestyles [ 1– 3].

Imperial Sugar has restarted its refinery in Port Wentworth to resume making crystal sugar for the first time since a deadly explosion devastated the plant last year.