Sentence examples for foliage feeding from inspiring English sources

Foliar feeding insects often can survive on the dying cover crop, and if the new crop emerges before the cover crop is completely dead, the foliage feeding insects simply move from the dying cover crop onto the newly emerged and tender crop plants.

For example, pollen feeding is proposed to represent the precursor of foliage feeding in many herbivorous groups.

Other rare types of lepidopteran feeding damage include wood borings and external foliage feeding [ 59], although attribution to a lepidopteran culprit is rarely possible.

For biotic treatments, two larvae of tea geometrids (Ectropis obliqua Prout) starved for 24 h were placed on the foliage for feeding damage, and the damaged leaves were harvested after 6, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours.

Adults and larvae feed on young foliage, with adults feeding preferentially on older foliage and ovipositing on juvenile foliage (Johns et al. 2004).

Roots, vines, and foliage are fed principally to pigs and cattle in unprocessed form.

In Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Peru, the vines and foliage are fed prinicpally to cattle, but also to pigs and rabbits (Peru) and to goats (Ecuador).

We have seen GAA populations explode during seasons such as this to the point where the aphid will move from foliage to begin feeding on the fruit.

Some of the shrubs are being freely browsed throughout the entire year, whereas others are lopped and provide foliage for intensive feeding during the scarce seasons.

However, if cool wet weather provides aphid populations with ideal conditions for growth, they may move from feeding on foliage to fruit.

Approximately 60% of the test larvae became infected after feeding on foliage that had been contaminated by faeces of C. sycophanta that fed on infected prey.