Sentences with phrase «insects infest»

Webs would indicate spiders, which don't feed on chiles but rather the insects infesting them.

That has triggered a variety of activities aimed at reducing the spread of insects infesting drought - weakened and standing dead trees, which are vulnerable to fire.

How, about a logging company that harvest rotting insect infested woodlands and utilizing wood per pellet mills or ethanol fuel?

Not exact matches

There are several species of insects that infest ristras, including various moths, fruit flies, and other flies.

At some point it became infested with some horrible biting insects.

Freezing for a week will kill the moth larvae, but then you've got chillis infested with insect parts, not a good thing if you're going to be eating them.

Hence, you do not need to worry about weeds, pests, insects and rodents infesting your lawn and destroying it.

When I questioned him about washing bananas, he said that he had seen bananas loaded onto cargo ships complete with insects that infested them, along with the insects» feces and eggs, and that bananas required unusual clinical procedures.

The governor — who last week toured a squalid, insect - infested public - housing apartment in The Bronx — implicitly ripped de Blasio's oversight of NYCHA.

She was certain her skin was infested: Insects were jumping off; fibers were poking out.

The finding confirms a standard practice for museum collections and food commodities: Potentially infested items are frozen to kill any hidden insect pests.

It's great for carpenter ants but can also kill a wide range of winged wood - infesting insects as well as about 75 other species.

After the insects invaded North America in the early 20th century, farmers discovered that pheromone - laced traps could tempt males away from females and from maize crops that the moths infest.

With sensitivity and gusto, Lockwood tours the extremes of the «infested mind,» including sexual fetishes involving crawling ants, insects as instruments of psychological torture, and infestations that flourish only in the imagination.

The Infested Mind: Why Humans Fear, Loathe, and Love Insects by Jeffrey Lockwood Oxford University Press, 2013

In The Infested Mind, Lockwood shifts from entomology to psychology to examine the fascination that first drew him to insects and the terror that later repelled him.

One such insect, the sap - sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore's breath and simply drop off the plant before it's eaten.Researchers at the University of Haifa at Oranim, Israel first noticed this phenomenon when they allowed a goat to feed on aphid - infested alfalfa plants — 65 percent of the plant pests simultaneously dropped to the ground just before the vegetation was devoured.The team suspected that several cues might have motivated the mass dropping, including the sudden shadow cast by the goat, plant - shaking triggered by the munching marauder and / or the herbivore's exhalations.

In an attempt to settle the debate, an international team led by Vincent Smith, a taxonomist and expert on lice evolution at the Natural History Museum in London, turned to the tiny louse — a parasitic insect that infests birds and mammals and is thought to have evolved alongside them — for new insights.

pesticide A chemical or mix of compounds used to kill insects, rodents or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants, pet or livestock, or that infest homes, offices, farm buildings and other protected structures.

Director Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) hails from the typically more performance - oriented world of comedy, which comes through in good ways — Bobby Cannavale's scenery - chewing, insect - infested bad guy; the universally strong comedic leads — and in bad ones.

The insects evolve into giant, subway - infesting monsters that can mimic other species, including humans.

She was infested with worms, covered with mites and other parasites, and her skin disease was complicated by dozens of open sores from insect bites.

If the dog is not infested, you can use heartworm preventative to make it stay that way throughout the summer even if it does receive plenty of insect bite on dog.

Prevention methods besides vaccination include destroying standing water breeding sites for mosquitoes, use of insect repellents and removing animals from mosquito - infested areas during peak biting times, usually dusk to dawn.

These bloodsucking insects cause considerable irritation and distress to infested pets.

Even worse, once your pet gets fleas, these insects will probably infest your home.

If a human household is infested with bedbugs, these flat, oval, brownish - colored insects also can colonize dog bedding and though they prefer human blood, in a pinch, they'll feed on dogs too.

Since these insects are tiny, there are several methods and tools you can employ to help figure out if your pet is infested.

Do not feed moldy or insect - infested food to animals as it may cause illness or death.

We live in an age where the «focus» of pet food manufacture is on palatants because the base of these foods is crud, and the «science» behind the products means that insects that infest the grain that is their base can be considered a legitimate protein source that the manufacturer can argue is good for them.

Feeding your dog a diet that includes garlic may deter some insects, but in heavily infested areas, that's just not enough.

So it's all a bit Fear Factor, really: «These stages are infested with all manner of creepy - crawlies, from insects to arthropods to rats to rather more supernatural creatures.

In other words, scale - infested branches were more than twice as common during hot periods than cool periods — exactly as we would expect if scale insects benefit from warming in rural forests as they do in the city.

The insects, which have infested more than 46 million acres in the United States alone, kill trees, creating vast quantities of kindling that feed wildfires, like the one whose scorched remains are seen here.

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

Any house that's constructed of wood — either outside or inside — could potentially be infested with termites or other wood - destroying insects.

When a home is unoccupied for a long period of time, the possibility for damage increases as vacant homes have an increased potential for vandalism, fire, flooding from burst pipes, being infested with insects or other vermin and liability issues.