Sentence examples for proportion of insects from inspiring English sources

Its diet in summer contains a high proportion of insects, while more plant items are eaten in autumn.

After this dose of cold stress, direct mortality remained relatively low but a high proportion of insects showed signs of chilling injury.

If a spatial repellent response is stimulated by a lower or equal concentration of chemical than required for either contact irritancy or toxicity, then the insect or some proportion of insects will be repelled without making contact with the chemical.

Changes through time in the proportion of insects that were T. chumash were then assessed (i.e., at the onset of the experiment this proportion was 0.5 for all plant individuals).

Likewise, if an irritant response occurs at a lower concentration of chemical than required for toxicity, then the irritant response precludes toxicity since the insect or some proportion of insects may move away from the chemical before acquiring a lethal dose.

Resistance to RHBV is found in populations of T. orizicolus, and a high proportion of insects are immune to virus infection (Zeigler and Morales 1990).

Organic farming increased both insect-pollinated as well as overall weed species richness, whereas the proportion of insect-pollinated weed species of the total species richness was unaffected by farming practises.

It is therefore probable that both the taxonomic diversity of symbionts and the proportion of insect species infected by symbionts are far greater than previously suspected.

Recent surveys suggest that Wolbachia infect a substantial proportion of insect species, with estimates ranging from 17% [ 5- 7] to 76% [ 8].

MaviP35 and AcP35 inhibited insect cell death induced by actinomycin D to a similar extent, but MaviP35 protected a larger proportion of insect cells than AcP35 against apoptosis induced by UV irradiation.

The Drosophila and Apis EST contigs consistently showed relatively low proportions of insect-specific genes (6 13%).