Sentence examples for mite control from inspiring English sources

Diseased plants also often fail to respond normally to fertilizing, watering, pruning, insect and mite control, or other recommended practices.

We evaluated economically feasible release rates of the western predatory mite, Galendromus occidentalis, for spider mite control in organically and conventionally managed commercial cotton fields.

This study demonstrated that all the tested essential oils have the ability to control T. turkestani and could be useful in the development of new agents for mite control.

Dust mite control measures, including air filtration, chemicals to kill mites, vacuuming, mattress covers and others methods had no effect on asthma symptoms.

Further, high virus levels resulting from high populations of varroa mites are not always immediately suppressed by effective mite control [80].

Our work does not directly associate these miticides with CCD, although higher coumaphos levels may actually benefit the colony, possibly via mite control [18].

Regardless of these differences in mite-control compounds, we were unable to detect differences in varroa mite levels in CCD- compared to control apiaries or colonies, suggesting that this mite was not the immediate cause of CCD.

These results support an evolutionary scenario in which cystatin family may have evolved in the spider mite to control the proliferation of divergent C1A cysteine peptidases and C13 legumains involved in protein digestion.

It is possible that some of the sampled colonies had their mite populations controlled by miticides a few months prior to our sampling.

This is especially important because of recent concerns that many factors including Varroa mites, viral diseases (transmitted by mites), and chemicals used to control mites negatively affect bee health (Giray et al. 2010; Neumann and Carreck 2010 and references there in Bromenshenk et al. 2010; Mullin et al. 2010; Aizen and Harder 2009).

We found 34 genes upregulated and 57 downregulated in the β-sitosterol-treated mites compared to in the control mites.