Sentence examples for spread of pests from inspiring English sources

"Increasing global trade does mean that our plants face increased threat from the spread of pests and diseases," she said.

And she hoped they might check the spread of pests like mealybugs and scale insects that are a bane of gardeners everywhere.

Some thought the most pressing aspect of climate change was rising sea levels; others, the growing intensity of storms and droughts; and others the spread of pests and diseases.

Mr. Gore does a cogent job of explaining how global warming can disrupt delicate ecological balances, resulting in the spread of pests (like the pine beetle, whose migration used to be slowed by colder winters), increases in the range of disease vectors (including mosquitoes, ticks and fleas), and the extinction of a growing number of species.

The hot and humid weather of Taiwan causes a wide spread of pests and a great loss to Taiwan's agriculture.

This configuration will not be changed in the future as long as the spread of pests such as the corn rootworm will not limit maize production.

Our assessment reveals that the introduction and spread of pest species are potentially important but often overlooked consequences of oyster cultivation.

As a consequence, biosecurity, including the protection against the spread of pest species, is emerging as one of the most important issues facing the international community [ 2].

The mechanisms that facilitate the establishment and spread of invasive pests are of particular interest to ecologists, evolutionary biologists and policy makers for a number of reasons; agricultural pests are responsible for substantial yield losses in agricultural systems, and there are considerable economic incentives to understand mechanisms of pest invasions.

It is also consistent with a gripping history of arboreal blights.The spread of such pests and pathogens is no more natural than a Sitka spruce thicket.

The researchers said that more needed to be done to halt the spread of these pests.