Sentence examples for wide range of pests from inspiring English sources
This was due to a doubling of natural predators, which eat a wide range of pests.
Regardless of whether you live on former reptile territory, it's worth making your garden a home to these wonderful animals – apart from their sheer beauty, they eat a wide range of "pests", including slugs.
Cultivation of these crops mostly in harsh and unpredictable environments renders these prone to attack by a wide range of pests and pathogens at various stages of the crops.
Because of their effect on a wide range of pests and also their low cost, organophosphate pesticides are used by farmers more than other pesticides (Shayeghi et al. 2008).
Numerous studies conducted so far have demonstrated successful application of RNAi technology (termed as HIGS) in plants to protect against a wide range of pests and pathogens such viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematode and plant parasites and herbivorous insects that cause significant economic loss.
A wide range of pests and diseases can affect the plant; three of the more common diseases/pests are mildew, aphids and apple scab.
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a ubiquitous, spore-forming soil bacterium that is well known for production of insecticidal proteins that are active on a wide range of pest insects.
CBC is a complex strategy drawing on a number of ecological and behavioural processes, operating at multiple scales, and mediated by management actions that are, potentially, targeted at a wide range of pest organisms.
The genius of the HDR technique, as idealized here, is that it provides net toxicities for SS and RS pests that are not too large, not too small, and approximately equal, for a wide range of pest resistance to smaller toxin concentrations, thereby obviating a calibration of toxin dose for each specific resistance gene.
A second problem, common to greenhouse as well as field-grown crops, involves the wide range of agricultural pests that make their living by damaging plants or fruits.
Methyl parathion is chosen because it is a highly neurotoxic agricultural chemical that is used extensively worldwide to control a wide range of insect pests.
