Sentence examples for forest insects from inspiring English sources

The ominous whoo-up of hyenas and the deep thunderous roar of lions replace the nocturnal chorus of forest insects.

And, since birds are a main predator of forest insects, their dwindling is already affecting the health of our forests.

Later this month, it will stage a workshop called "Forest Insects as Food: Humans Bite Back" in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

What they found was that invasive forest insects cost local governments about $2 billion a year and residential homeowners an additional $1.5 billion in lost property values.

Adding half that number for insect species found on the ground beneath the trees gives an estimated grand total of 30 million species of tropical forest insects alone.

The populations of some forest insects, such as the gypsy moths (Lymantria dispar) that were introduced to North America, rise extremely fast.

Forest insect outbreaks can impose significant tree mortality across vast forested landscapes.

The gypsy moth is a forest insect, and is certainly not an inhabitant of cities.

They have killed billions of shrubs and trees in one of the biggest forest insect outbreaks ever recorded.

By 1957, however, the pesticide problem was totally out of hand, as an attempt to prevent "an infestation of gypsy moths" in the city of New York clearly demonstrated: "The gypsy moth," Carson wrote, "is a forest insect, certainly not an inhabitant of cities.

The studied species (Abax parallelepipedus, Coleoptera: Carabidae) is a corridor forest insect sensitive to wood fragmentation.