Sentence examples for means of insect from inspiring English sources

Our results suggest that SeCHSA dsRNA may be useful as a means of insect pest control.

Entomopathogens are distinguished from other means of insect biological pest control primarily by their methods of application.

Gametophytic self- and cross-incompatibility, and apomixy would produce low variability within Citrus species [ 7], while outcrossing by means of insect and wind pollination, which is the norm for poplar and vitis, would result in highly heterozygous cultivars [ 17, 57].

It is fairly common to find transmission of a parasite from one vertebrate or plant host to another occurring by means of an insect carrier, or vector.

Automated radars employing a vertical-looking zenith-pointing linear-polarised small-angle conical-scan ("ZLC", or "nutating beam") configuration provide an effective means of monitoring insect migration over long periods.

More sophisticated methods of control began after the second world war when scientists in the US began using radiation as a means of controlling insects.

Under his direction, considerable progress was made in the development of arsenic-based insecticides, kerosene emulsions, and other means of controlling insects injurious to agriculture.

They are described as professional ant-followers known to attend army ant swarms (Eciton burchelli, Labidus praedator) as a means of finding insects (Oniki 1971, Isler and Isler 1999, Roberts et al. 2000, Restall et al. 2006).

The mean number of insects captured in each of the 16 villages of the rural community of Mont Rolland is presented in Table 1.

However, outbreeding by means of wind and insect pollination is the norm.

Almost immediately thereafter, it was hailed as a means of stamping out insect-borne disease and winning the farmers' war against crop destroyers overnight, and, in due course, the chemist who had discovered its ability to kill insects, Paul Müller, of Switzerland, won the Nobel Prize.