Sentences with phrase «aphids so»

Incidentally, my kale in my garden had been overtaken by aphids so I used swiss chard instead and they still tasted great - plus, the bits of chard stem added a nice flash of red visual to the patties.

Not exact matches

The aphids love my garden kale so I started snapping off leaves for the compost bin, then sick of losing good food, I put some of less infested leaves into a plastic dish pan of warm soapy water.

I've grown beans before, mostly to fix nitrogen in the soil: although I love fresh green beans, the aphids loved them, too, so I plant scarlet runner beans to go with this year's emerald dent corn.

Oh what a poor pumpkin, I live in an apartment without a garden so I just have my herbs but I understand what it's like to raise a war against insect infestations (my thai basil is currently recovering from an aphid invasion!).

Her offspring live up to 40 days and produce their own set of clones, so one single aphid can end up producing many billion clones by the end of the summer.

But so did the ladybirds (Coccinella septempunctata), even when there were no aphids for them to eat (Animal Behaviour, DOI: 10.1016 / j.anbehav.2012.01.008).

These observations, carried out at an extraordinary level of detail, made it possible to establish the interactions between one hundred or so species situated on four trophic levels: plants (23 species), aphids that feed on these plants (25 species), wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of the aphids (22 species), and other wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of the preceding wasps inside aphids (26 species).

We learn, for example, how bacteria allow the Hawaiian bobtail squid to glow, how they permit pea aphids to subsist on nothing but plant sap, and how the wood rat has coopted them so it can digest otherwise toxic creosote.

There is corn so infused with vitamin A precursors that it practically glows orange, rice that can survive more than two weeks of flooded conditions, and wheat that resists the advance of devastating aphids.

iFanzine Verdict: Anthill's gameplay is so expertly crafted — and its flaws so aphid - sized — that it will enjoy a healthy stay on your iDevice if you count yourself a fan of Castle Defense, Tower Defense, or Real - Time Strategy games in general.