Sentences with phrase «come plant pests»

Along with gardening come plant pests and certain risks for pets.

Not exact matches

Escaped pets, sport fish and garden plants run amok, insects that come hidden in the foliage of imported plants, pests that are introduced to control other pests — the invaders are legion, from anywhere, going everywhere.

«I could come into Hawaii tomorrow with a whole bunch of plants from Southeast Asia, and as long as they didn't have any insect pests, I could bring them in,» says Charles Lamoureux, director of the Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

As other plants detect the chemicals, they crowdsource a solution: producing mass amounts of deterrent chemical compounds, just in case the pests come calling.

This approach also makes crop rotation a snap when the time comes for succession planting, as you can easily rotate the family neighborhoods so you don't sap the soil or encourage pest problems in one spot.

Hit the P Switch and get through the Piranha Plants Pipe as quick as you can, avoid the coin platform on the left and jump straight from the bottom one to the top one to get to the pipe before the Piranha comes out for a second time, if you are a second too late you get eaten

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72