Sentences with phrase «infestations by the beetle»
A study found that insectivorous birds cut infestations by the beetle Hypothenemus hampei by about half, saving a medium - sized coffee farm up to US$ 9,400 over a year's harvest — roughly equal to Costa Rica's average per - capita income.
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Canfor Corp. and West Fraser Timber have also been constrained by the mountain pine beetle infestation in B.C. and environmental challenges in Quebec.
Not so, according to a field study led by CU - Boulder researchers, who found that higher levels of spruce beetle infestation did not lead to more ecologically severe fires.
They found that beetle - eating birds were most common at sites with lots of stretches of forest nearby, and that beetle infestations were slightly more severe at sites that were not surrounded by abundant forest.
So too are infestations by insects such as the Colorado and rapeseed beetle.
When I read the report from source # 2 listed, I interpreted that the toxins are released by potatoes in response to beetle infestation and the toxins are in higher amounts in raw unpeeled potatoes.
Lodgepole pine trees on millions of acres in Colorado and Wyoming are dying and will oxidize on the forest floor unless otherwise used, victims of a pine beetle infestation exacerbated by warming global temperatures.
In California, the added heat has been compounded by the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016, which dried out vast swaths of wilderness and opened the door to a devastating beetle bark infestation.