Sentences with phrase «insect pests into»

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

Not exact matches

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

Synthetic incompatibility has applications in controlling or eradicating invasive species, crop pests and disease - carrying insects as well as preventing altered genes from escaping from genetically modified crops into other plant populations.

«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 the insect pest dines on the plant, the double - stranded RNA gets converted into small interfering RNA.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

Initial evidence hinted that nicotine and other chemicals in the butts might help deter insect pests from moving into the nests — nicotine does have anti-parasite properties — but it wasn't conclusive.

The increasing resistance of pest insects to Bt is another reason to look deeper into the natural insect adaptations against plant defenses.

This covering seals the compacted trash from the air and prevents pests (birds, rats, mice, flying insects, etc.) from getting into the trash.

Are you worried about insects and other pests getting into your dog's food or water bowl?

This means taking pest control outside of the house and into the yard where many insects lie in wait.

All our pesticides, mainly, fall into the area of sprays that are made up of water and basically strong smelling odours or strong tastes from plants and their produce that the offending insects / pests find repellent.

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.

The excess heat in the air can be linked to increased frequency of heat waves across the globe, wider distribution of insect pests (e.g., pine beetle in the northwest U.S.), and various health - related issues such as the spread of tropical diseases further north into the U.S.

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.

And while the estimates may be verging on the sensational, they offer fascinating insight into the important role our eight - legged friends play in keeping countless insect pests in check.

Go into peoples homes with a infestation of some kind of bug or insect and spray a chemical to kill and get ride of whatever pest that was bothering the home owner.

It's divided into six sections: pantry pests; rats, mice, and other four - legged pests; termites; wood destroying pests (not termites); and miscellaneous insect pests.

If a screen is torn anywhere, then it allows insects and other pests into your rental property.