Sentence examples for host feeds from inspiring English sources

Thus, if their host feeds on Bt plants it is likely that the parasitoid will become exposed to the Cry toxin.

Whereas local adaptation primarily focuses on host pathogen interactions, there is another potential player in this relationship, the host plant on which the insect host feeds.

We label the probability that a host-seeking, uninfected mosquito finds a host, feeds, gets infected, and survives a feeding cycle by P dif.

(Lili's scenes with Eva mostly take place over tea, where Eva is literally and figuratively "the host," feeding the parasitic Lili).

Host feeding by E. nassaui (solo or paired) generally was confined to the first egg attacked within a batch.

Solo females subsequently probed and then oviposited into the egg on which they had host fed for all observations except one.

This study developed an artificial feeding (AF) method to replace direct host feeding (DHF) for the maintenance of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles minimus mosquito colonies.

After attack of the first egg, solo females continued parasitism of the remaining eggs (without further host feeding) sometimes separated by short periods of resting, grooming or walking about the egg batch.

The parasitism sequence for E. nassaui was similar to the behaviour of Pachycrepoideus vindemiae (Goubault et al. 2007) and D. basalis (Mohamad et al. 2013), except for the frequency of host feeding.

Owner and intruder females followed the sequence of parasitism-related behaviours displayed by solo females (drum, probe and oviposit with host feeding on the first egg attacked) when not interrupted by the actions of their competitor.

Rickettsia infections that were acquired by host feeding seemed to be largely transient, as the proportion of infected females decreased sharply four days after removal from hosts (Er.