Sentences with phrase «damaging insect pest»

«It's the most damaging insect pest by far, causing some $ 500 million in damage per year.»

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The incidence of rice diseases (e.g., bacterial leaf blight, leaf blast, sheath rot, and sheath blight) and damage from insect pests (e.g., rice bug, yellow stem borer) were recorded for GR2E Golden Rice and unmodified control rice grown at five locations during the 2017 boro season in Bangladesh.

Many orchardists spray to control weeds and nuisance fruit crop pests, or employ pheromone insect traps to minimise codling moth damage in particular.

If the researchers can obtain a more comprehensive picture of how benzoxazinoids are metabolized in pest insects, they may be able to design better strategies to reduce pest damage.

This hurts the economy because bats» diet of pest insects reduces the damage the insects cause to crops and decreases the need for pesticides.

Climate change impact analyses typically project increasing pest survival and crop damage with increasing temperatures (e.g., NCA 2014a), and wheat stem sawfly (WSS) may well be generally consistent with that pattern, but the following caveats help to show why generalizations across all landscapes in Montana, for all insect pests, are risky.

Many bat species eat vast amounts of insects, including some of the most damaging agricultural pests.

Taking these precautions with annual monitoring / inspection by a license pest control person, will help prevent insect damage.

This hurts the economy because bats» diet of pest insects reduces the damage the insects cause to crops and decreases the need for pesticides.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Milder winters mean that more insects and pests are infesting the houses and causing damage to priceless wooden furniture and paintings.

There are some, very limited policies that do cover damage from insects, infestation and pests, but this coverage is specifically called out within the policy and the cost for such coverage may be costly.

In the vast majority of cases however, homeowners insurance policies will not cover damage caused by termites or any other vermin, insect or pest.