Sentence examples for harmful insects from inspiring English sources

Others say that the birds should be preserved as they destroy harmful insects and their value overshadows their harm.

Harmful insects include mosquitoes, sandflies, grasshoppers, and occasionally locusts.

Dead branches invite disease and harmful insects, including the voracious Asian longhorned beetle.

Entomologists use particular sex-attractant pheromones and aggregation pheromones to lure and trap harmful insects.

"But ecologically, that's a bad thing to do because bats pollinate plants and eat harmful insects by the ton".

They were long banned here for fear they harbored harmful insects, but the fruit from Thailand is now irradiated.

Bt crops, however, produce cry proteins that are naturally toxic to many harmful insect species.

On the other hand, arsenic, which is notorious for its toxicity, is most useful in agriculture, where its compounds are an aid in controlling harmful insect pests.

In February, Iraq warned Iranian "invaders" that "for every harmful insect there is an insecticide capable of annihilating it". Within weeks, the American authorities intercepted precursor chemicals that were bound for Iraq.

Every part of a growing tree root, trunk, bark, leaf, flowers, and seeds is potentially subject throughout every stage of its life to attack by some harmful insect or fungus.

Thrips is one of the most harmful insect groups attacking many field and vegetable crops.