Sentence examples for mosquitoes at a from inspiring English sources

The geese are an intolerable pest no different from mosquitoes at a barbecue or flies at a church picnic.

And while health officials have developed a surveillance and control plan to prevent a repeat of last year's outbreak, there are steps that homeowners can take to keep the number of new mosquitoes at a minimum.

He takes to the Sunday TV talk shows, the Senate floor and the Capitol hallways that are filled with more reporters than mosquitoes at a garden party to press his party's agenda on taxes, military spending and national security.

Given that humans become visible to mosquitoes at a distance of 5 15 m [16], visual cues play a critical intermediate role in host localization by coupling long-range plume tracking to behaviors that require short-range cues.

British company Oxitec have been producing these self-limiting mosquitoes at a laboratory in São Paulo.

For example, by releasing wild-type mosquitoes at a rate of 20% per generation for 5 continuous generations, then waiting 5 generations before repeating, one can drive transgene frequency to <1% in 5 release regimes (Figure 7).

The county's mosquito-control program, the postcards said, is "designed to track and control mosquitoes at an early stage to try and avoid broad-based aerial spraying".

If the Food and Drug Administration approves their "animal bug patent," Oxitec will likewise release upwards of 10,000 GM mosquitoes at an undisclosed 36-square-acre block near the Key West Cemetery.

So what if I wore a fine fur of malarial mosquitoes at all times?

Re "Of Management and Mosquito Nets" (Off the Shelf, Aug. 21), a review by Bryan Burrough of "Lifeblood: How to Change the World, One Dead Mosquito at a Time": This was insightful, but contained two important errors.

Long before the movie "The Ring" came out, the ghosts of murdered girls had become a horror movie cliché; the one staring reproachfully from the recesses of Kingdom Hospital is less scary then predictable and annoying, like a mosquito at a lakeside camp ground.