Sentences with phrase «eating insect pests»

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Ladybugs, among other insects, are released in the greenhouses to eat aphids and otherunfriendly pests.

Recent studies in Jamaica's «high mountain» coffee farms suggest that introducing insect - eating warblers such as the black - throated blue warbler (Setophaga caerulescens, inset, about to snag a coffee berry borer) onto plantations can keep the pests in check.

And in more temperate regions, bugs could even benefit: As the pine beetles eating their way through the vast boreal forests of western North America prove, changes in climatic patterns can help insect pests by allowing them to survive through the winter.

And if it weren't for insects eating each other, we would have to spend an extra $ 4.5 billion in agricultural pest control.

This is because bat species are distributed all over the world, and provide lots of services to humans through controlling pests by eating vast quantities of insects and pollinating and dispersing commercially important crops (for example bananas, tequila).

Plant turned preexisting defenses against insect pests into weapons for catching and eating prey

Termites are group of wood - eating insects that serve as important decomposers in nature, but some types are highly destructive pests to human - built structures, Vargo said.

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

Many of our plants attract pest eating predatory insects and as a result we have very low insect pressure naturally.

They kill millions of beautiful songbirds and bats that are essential to insect control (including pests that spread diseases or that eat crops), pollination, and seed dispersal every year.

When feeding wet, canned, or raw food, dishes should be picked up and cleaned immediately after eating (or after a few hours if food is left behind) to prevent the growth of bacteria or attracting pests and insects.

The researcher's methodology was simple — estimate the number of winter days cold enough to kill pest insect eggs and larva and the number of days warm enough to allow the pests to grow and eat and compare that to today's weather and crop losses.

Incorporating more balance and diversity into a garden design by leaving part of it wild serves a practical as well as philosophical purpose by increasing the likelihood that the area will naturally to attract birds or other insects that will eat the pests.

Insect and Pest Control If there is a downside to growing fruit trees, it's that you will deal, at one time or another, with insects eating the leaves or birds getting to the fruit before you do.