Sentences with phrase «damaged by beetles»

In the U.S., millions of acres of forest have been damaged by beetles, according to a report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Not exact matches

By JANE SEYMOUR An entomologist trying to identify a rare beetle turns to a national collection only to find that the specimen in question is damaged beyond repair.

Rolled - leaf beetles today still munch on ginger plants, as shown by the characteristic damage on this leaf from Panama.

Research in Costa Rica shows that hungry warblers and other birds significantly reduce damage by a devastating coffee pest, the coffee berry borer beetle.

There has been much discussion of the damage by pine bark beetles on the West Coast and in Canada, and virtually no attention to the trees on the Eastern Seaboard.

[6][7] Bark beetles can damage whole regions of forest by depositing eggs under the bark of pine trees that hatch into larval grubs and consume the trees.

They estimate that forest fires will cause increased damage on the Iberian peninsula, with damage by bark beetles increasing most markedly in the Alps.

In fact, tests by Norman Arancon of the University of Hawaii suggest that application of vermicompost showed significant and repeatable suppression of pythium, verticillium wilt, rhizoctonia solani, powdery mildew, plant parasitic nematodes, cabbage white caterpillars, cucumber beetles, tomato hornworms, mealy bugs, aphids and two - spotted spider mites» damage to a broad range of edible crops.

Here I'll try to give background on the issues related to bark beetle outbreaks, working from proximate to ultimate causes, and focusing on the one beetle species currently doing by far the most damage, the mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae.