Sentences with phrase «like aphids»

Cherim is the founder of the Green Spot LTD, based in Nottingham, N.H., a wholesaler and distributor of biological pest controls — you know, «good» bugs like miniwasps and parasitic nematodes that devour «bad» bugs like aphids and fleas.

Not exact matches

Fertilization and strict weed and pest control are important; the plants are especially vulnerable to a number of pests and plant diseases like pepper budworm, mites, crickets, and aphids.

Oh what a poor pumpkin, I live in an apartment without a garden so I just have my herbs but I understand what it's like to raise a war against insect infestations (my thai basil is currently recovering from an aphid invasion!).

I don't like to use chemical composition.Thanks in advance, Marco BudinisGenova, Italy A: Hello Marco: Unfortunately, aphids are very difficult to control without using chemical insecticides.

A couple of pests do go after pepper seedlings — aphids especially like to attack young plants indoors.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

Chris Simms traces some effects of the destruction of grapevines in 19th - century France by aphid - like phylloxera (23/30 December 2017, p...

APHIDS and caterpillars both like to eat broccoli.

Why is it, entomologists have wondered, that the pea aphids of southern Wisconsin, like those shown here, come in two colors?

Symbiotic relationships occur on a spectrum from parasitism (one species benefits at the expense of the other, such as a tick that sucks its host's blood) to mutualism (both organisms benefit, like when certain ants farm aphids for their honeydew while in return protecting them from predators).

Some aphids are darker colors, like brown.

June 2, 2016 • The forest at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is sick, infected by invasive aphid - like bugs.

Like the pesky aphids that plague Peter's world, it gets under your skin and forces you to scratch.

Tracer, for instance, is like a killer - aphid as her powers let her dash quickly around her enemies - if you don't swat her, she'll buzz you to death.

The hemlock woolly adelgid is an aphid - like bug, and it can kill hemlocks.

The system has become a lustfully greedy monster anaconda itself to squeeze the life out of every family that comes near it coils... like ants farming aphids it fattens the family for every bit of life blood it can consume from them.

The dish soap (biodegradable) helps to keep down aphids and the like.