Sentence examples for leaf feeding from inspiring English sources

Midwestern states suggest that 15 to 25% defoliation by all leaf feeding insects during pod fill is an economic threshold for control.

Genotypic variance was significant for stalk breakage, ear damage, leaf feeding at 5 weeks after infestation, and for most agronomic traits.

This is the same region that experienced the first cocaine boom in the 19th century, after German chemists developed the formula for making cocaine from the coca leaf, feeding a legal trade in the United States and Europe.

Overall, flower visitors and leaf feeding larvae were studied for c. 300 h in P. cochinchinensis and for c. 200 h in P. rheophyticus, mostly at night but occasionally also during the day.

It is also conceivable that these feeding tracks were produced by groups other than hispine Cassidinae [16], perhaps due to convergent feeding patterns in other extant or extinct leaf feeding insect lineages [25].

In the first experiment, we quantified larval growth (and where possible, mortality) of three moth species, representing two leaf feeding guilds, on lupin collected from the center of a patch comprising the core region (hereafter "center") and the margins of that patch (hereafter "margin").

A 22-kilowatt-hour battery pack, roughly the size of that in the Leaf, feeds power to a 170-horsepower electric motor mounted over the rear axle.

The portion of the leaf fed upon by the larva was quantified after one day by scanning the leaf.

Most commonly, they leaf feed.

Woodcock (Philohela and Scolopax) also probe, but in woodland soils and leaf litter, feeding extensively on earthworms.

Modern innovations on the drier are the hot-feed drier, where hot air is supplied separately to the feeder to arrest fermentation immediately as the leaf is fed, and the fluid-bed drier, where the leaf moves from one end of the chamber to the other over a perforated plate in a liquid fashion.