Sentences with phrase «invasive insects»

In the letter, Clement also expressed deep concern for other victims of climate change impacts, such as the recent set of devastating hurricanes, more frequent and severe flooding, marine life die - offs as a result of warmer ocean temperatures, forests at risk from invasive insects, and so on.

For instance, invasive insects that used to be killed off by cold winters are expected to spread north more readily as the temperature warms, attacking trees.

• Invasive insects, weeds and other pests will increase.

Inspired by natural gene drives, researchers have spent decades trying to perfect a system that might endow a population of mosquitoes with a malaria resistance gene, for example, or spread a lethal gene that cuts down a local population of invasive insects or rodents.

«Destructive invasive insects have changed forest landscapes in the United States and throughout the world,» said Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Lab.

«This study is one of the first to show that gradual and subtle changes in forest structure and species composition, driven by climate change — as well as invasive insects and pathogens that act on a fraction of tree species within a forest — can also affect water yield.»

(Campers can't bring their own wood due to non-native invasive insects that could damage the trees.)

Florida citrus growers have had to contend with citrus greening, a disease spread by a small invasive insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- New York state officials are asking residents to be on the lookout for an invasive insect...

An invasive insect that attacks hemlock trees has been found for the first time in the Adirondacks.

Travis Glazier, director of the Office of the Environment for Onondaga County, says if that happens, it'll simply take longer to deal with the as many as 47,000 trees on county property that will die because of the invasive insect.

Twenty years ago, Stephen Goldson thought he had beaten the Argentine stem weevil, an invasive insect that was devastating New Zealand's pastures.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the whitefly (Bemisia tabici), an invasive insect responsible for spreading plant viruses worldwide, causing billions of dollars in crop losses each year.

A biology student may decide to study a healthy option in the jungle to head off the depredations of an invasive insect or fungus.

Several bird species have expanded their ranges northward80 as have some invasive insect species, such as the hemlock woolly adelgid, 81 which has devastated hemlock trees.

An invasive insect is attacking hemlock trees in Michigan and along the East Coast.

Not exact matches

The Vermont maple syrup industry is well aware that an invasive, tree - killing insect could threaten the production of its delicious, all - natural commodity.

They have helped entomologists capture rare insects on disappearing virgin prairie, taken part in a skit on the whooping crane's perilous migration, learned to identify invasive weeds choking sensitive waterways, done surveys on native bee numbers, and signed petitions to pass laws to better conserve monarch butterfly habitat.

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A damaging insect called the spotted lanternfly, once native to Asia, has now been found in New York and local experts are asking the public to help spot the invasive species.

AUSTRALIA»S invasive alien insects should watch out.

All these insects are drawn to a clump of red vetch (Vicia villosa), an invasive weed.

Researchers are also experimenting with insects that eat cheatgrass and other invasive weeds but leave native plants alone.

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.

Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.

Researchers at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute are learning more about the impact invasive zebra mussels and native aquatic insect larvae have on the risk of algae blooms in two West Michigan lakes.

The rapid spread of engineered genes through a population may allow researchers to make mosquitoes unable to spread malaria or other diseases, to sterilize the insects, or to clear pests or invasive species out of places where they are not wanted (SN: 12/26/15, p. 6;

For years, she had heard talk of how eastern hemlocks, which are found from Georgia to Canada, were being killed by an invasive sap - sucking insect called the woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae).

«Because we found that all of the insects perform better on the native than on the invasive type, it suggests to us that if a biocontrol is released in North America, it's going to harm the native Phragmites more than the invasive,» they said.

Based on their results, Meyerson and Cronin believe that efforts to identify an insect that could be used as an agent of biocontrol for the invasive Phragmites may do more damage to the native species than to the invasive variety.

(A somewhat dizzying video produced for the commission lays out the extent of the problem with invasive species, including time lapse photography that shows voracious insects gobbling plants.)

«Our native Phragmites in North America is getting hammered by both native and introduced insects, whereas the invasive Phragmites in North America suffers far less herbivory than it does in its native Europe,» she said.

Certain species of insects, like mosquitoes, ticks and invasive beetles, are also expected to benefit from warmer temperatures.

Yet the literature on invasives does record a few happy accidents: cases in which an invasive exotic met a native insect that said «Hallelujah!»

The more native insects an invasive plant attracts, the more chance some insects might decide to eat it.

A new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark - and wood - boring insects, according to a study by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).

We don't yet know whether the gene - spreading approach known as gene drive, intended to wipe out invasive pests or reduce the spread of insect - borne disease, will work in the wild.

Removal of the invasive Morning Glory vine from the small area occupied by the stick insects was successfully carried out in 2003.

Unlike previous research that has tried to control animal movement by applying invasive methods, most notably in insects, KAIST researchers propose a conceptual system that can guide an animal's moving path by controlling its instinctive escape behaviour.

Gene drives could have widespread uses, potentially leading to new ways of combating malaria and other insect - borne diseases and controlling invasive species.

These technologies are currently being applied for certain insect species such as mosquitos and research is underway to assess their efficacy in invasive species, particularly on islands.

Professor Tsutsui specializes in the behavior, chemical ecology, genetics, and genomics of social insects, particularly the invasive Argentine ant and the European honey bee.

One involves engineering reproductive isolation (speciation) between populations that can otherwise interbreed, so as to limit gene flow; a second involves creating genetic methods that can, reversibly, drive populations of invasive species and / or vectors of disease to local extinction; a third involves creating genetic methods that can drive — in ways that are easily reversible — the spread of beneficial genes into wild insect populations so as to prevent the spread of vector - borne disease.

The new «gene drive» mechanism has the potential to reduce or completely extirpate a population of rapidly reproducing sexual organisms such as mosquitoes, fleas, tree - killing insects, and invasive non-native plants and animals.

Dr. Tsutsui's research topics include the origin and evolution of invasive ant «supercolonies», the sequencing and analysis of ant genomes, and the discovery of pheromones that regulate insect behaviors.

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According to Seventeen,» Blue Roses» alternates between three main locations: a bright, sterile operating theatre; a murky blue netherworld representing the area under the skin at the back of the knee; and a parallel world, filmed in a real - life Texas laboratory, in which cockroaches are subjected to invasive experiments that hijack the insects» nervous systems to remotely control their legs.

Overcoming Biotic Constraints (pests, weeds, diseases) Diseases and insect pests rob the world of more than 40 percent of the attainable yield of the eight most important food crops, and invasive species threaten both crops and native biodiversity.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;