Sentence examples for pests I from inspiring English sources

Hormesis, however, cannot be claimed for cases in which the observed stimulatory effects were due to exposure of non-target pests (i.e., mites) to pesticides (DDT, carbaryl, insecticidal pyrethroids or imidacloprid).

In Gembloux (Belgium), wildflower strips (WFS) were sown within wheat crops in which pests (i.e., aphids), their predators (i.e. aphidophagous hoverflies, lacewings and ladybeetles) and parasitoid wasps were monitored for 10 weeks in the period of May through July 2015 as indicators of the ES of pest control.

The overall pest damage was lowest in CG+biopesticides treated plots followed by SwB+ biopesticides, SaB+biopesticides and biopesticides alone, and CG+biopesticides gave the best quality of yield of Chinese kale, and hence such combinations could be integrated for managing crucial insect pests, i.e. DBM and to minimize/avoid the use of highly toxic synthetic pesticides in Chinese kale.

Potential secondary pests, i.e. pest species replacing the target organism and being largely insensitive to the respective toxin, were not considered in any of the applications.

Farmers are shifting towards eco-friendly technology for the management of pests, i.e., BCAs or BCA-based formulations, referred to as biopesticides.

This situation would not be necessarily problematic if pharmaceutical industries and agribusiness companies were able to stay one step ahead of pathogenic organisms and agricultural pests, i.e. to develop and market new products before resistance causes significant control failures.

(Sidenote: Like all biopesticides, bioinsecticides generally work best on smaller populations of younger pests). Is the first generation of the pest the one that causes the most damage?

The same model (3.1) but without any residual effects of the pesticides on the pest (i.e., only an instantaneous killing efficiency was considered) has been investigated, see [4, 5] for details.

D. stramonium plants are fit for the situations in which S. halepense becomes a pest, i.e. S. halepense should not be occasionally and/or transitorily close to D. stramonium.

APHIS determines whether a transgenic cultivar is likely to become a pest, i.e. to have negative agricultural or environmental effects.

I pressed on, to the point of being a pest, I'm sure.