Sentence examples for surviving insects from inspiring English sources

Health officials hope that by moving immediately to kill mosquitoes in areas where the disease is found and urging the public to avoid exposure to surviving insects, they can prevent a widespread outbreak.

At the third-leaf stage, each cup/plant was infested with 10 s to third-instar nymphs and the number of surviving insects was counted from 1 to 9 days after BPH release for 9 days.

Surviving insects that had been injected with ButaIT/GNA also showed a reduction in weight gain compared to controls (PBS-injected).

Allele frequencies were compared between dead and surviving insects using a 2×2 contingency table (Fisher's exact test, two-tailed P-value).

We tested whether survival varied among geographic locations (Cascades, Willamette Valley, Coast) (Table 1), using a one-way anova on the number of surviving insects in each experimental unit (cluster in a cage).

Neurotoxic insecticides are widely used for crop protection and behavioural perturbations can be expected in surviving beneficial insects, including parasitoids of pest insects.

There is no more food at home, so he survives on insects.

The aphid that causes potato blight now appears a month earlier than it used to, so it feeds on the plant at a more vulnerable point in its life.The greater incidence of disease may be caused by many things: more insects surviving winter; the banning of dangerous pesticides; cuts in the budgets of institutions that conducted research into diseases; even globalisation.

Scott and Paulley's visualizations, guided by Makoto's expertise, strictly follow the narrative arc of a plant: rooting, sprouting, blooming, pollination by birds and insects, surviving rain and storms, rebirth, and decay.

After 24 days of infestation, insects surviving on transgenic plants varied from 2 to 4/plant (Fig. 7) which exhibited delayed moulting and prolonged life cycle (~10 days) as compared to the insects present on susceptible control plants.

This could be a complementary pathway for an insect pathogen unable to use polysaccharide for surviving in the insect gut [ 24].