Sentence examples for off the infestation from inspiring English sources

The tree can only ward off the infestation if it floods the boreholes with resin or halts the fungus by producing a wall of polyphenols.

"Of course, a dearth of pesticides was the actual cause of the infestation," he said.

As to the cause of the infestation?

Hymenoptera that mass-provision their offspring have evolved elaborate antimicrobial strategies to ward off fungal infestation of the highly nutritive larval food.

In the wake of the discovery, officials plan to inspect all of the approximately 13,000 trees in the park that are vulnerable to attack, and will inject trees within at least an eighth of a mile of the infested maples with an insecticide to ward off potential infestation.

As the infestation spreads, the trees' bark breaks off, further preventing water being circulated to its leaves.

It was Lisa Sapolsky's second night in Africa, and it was spent warding off an infestation of red ants with pincers.

They set up a baby-sitting service; they frolic with sea gulls; they try to fend off an infestation of caterpillars in blueberry bushes planted 20 years earlier by Stella's mom.

It depicted the infestation of mussels in Lake Michigan.

Although bedbug spray helped somewhat, the infestation set them back.

Some residents here are angry that officials did not spray to prevent the infestation.