Sentences with word «weedy»

That's possible, Winfree explains, because the wet climate encourages the growth of weedy plants that spring up at the field edges, and bees use these scraps of habitat to nest and forage.

Greg Henry of the University of British Columbia reports that in the area of Nunavut he's studied, the tundra has warmed about 1 °C each decade since the 1970s — something which he attributes to the growth of more weedy plants in the region.

She maintains an endearing innocence amid the danger and depravity on all sides and roams the flat terrain, weedy fields and sickly palm trees poking through the asphalt, in ongoing adventures played out across endless summer days.

However, rapid movement by natural dispersal is unlikely on a century time - scale, except for weedy species with short generation time and highly dispersable propagules.

While some of the cars — most likely the base trim — come with weedy, small tyres, a black grille and door handles, the other trim comes with alloys, chromed grille, and wing mirrors with turn indicators.

In response to these pressures, weedy forms that evolved from the crop forms are taking on traits more like those of wild ancestors.

Olsen and postdoctoral research fellow Cindy Vigueira sample weedy rice in the WUSTL greenhouse for DNA extraction and analyses.

There are a few weedy patches but they're not squishy or gross.

This discovery sparked a new initiative — to transform more than 15 acres of weedy grass fields to a diverse, native wildflower prairie where the bees can form self - sustaining colonies.

Beneath the waves curious animals such as Australian weedy sea dragons, garibaldi damselfish and Japanese spider crabs hang among rocky ledges and kelp forests.

Over the past few decades, crop breeders have increasingly relied on the wild and weedy relatives of domesticated crops as new sources of disease resistance, drought tolerance, and other traits.

Looking for weedy candidates The research represents just one of several ways scientists are altering plants to maximize their ability to produce cellulose and hemicellulose for biofuels, said Laura Bartley, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology at the University of Oklahoma.

«Ed Miliband said that he and David never fought during childhood because «we are both too weedy for that».

Basic S models can look a bit weedy on steel wheels, but from there up, especially in FR or Cupra trim, the SEAT totally pulls off a fun and youthful vibe.

Though this 2.0 - liter engine does look a bit weedy on paper in comparison with the punchier alternatives in the BMW X1 and Mercedes - Benz GLA, the 200hp and 207lb / ft of torque are ample enough to get this crossover up to a decent lick of speed.

But Georgie O just sounded so weedy as he said it — about as convincing as when we tried to make IDS out to be the strong, silent type.

Simply pour it directly onto weedy areas to keep them in check.

This connection keeps you from being seen as one more weedy spam item choking their inbox.

All I know is, there are a lot of good old games lying around streets, alleys and weedy lots going to waste.

In Australia they pass laws to protect weedy eucalyptus invading the grasslands but ignore the valuable and declining Mitchell grass that once dominated Australia's treeless plains.

One weedy strain resembles an Asian rice variety grown only in a small part of the Indian subcontient and the other strain resembles a rice grown in the tropics.

Ok so we don't all have biceps as big as Brussels but if you're worried about looking weedy with your shirt sleeves rolled up don't be.

I have been noticing the grime - streaked windows, leaf - choked gutters and weedy flowerbed corners, and I know once I cross those off my «To Do» list, my investment and hard work means I'll be really pleased with what I have when I'm done.

BUT, being skinny, even weedy, when he has to really defend he is all at sea.

The assault rifle, meanwhile, feels rather weedy thanks once again to the lack of recoil and satisfying audio, while also taking quite a while to put down a single enemy.

For this flight, UOP transformed gallons of oil derived from the seeds of the Jatropha plant — an African weedy shrub that can be grown on land that is not being used for food production — provided by Terasol Energy.

Using the best quality products, it was developed by three oyster growers at Cowell, to suit the rough and weedy conditions in Franklin Harbour.

He would rather play weedy nine stone dripping wet midfielders and cumbersome, immobile, couldn't care less so called «players» as DCM.

«There will probably be a few weedy species that can handle these nasty conditions, but we'll lose a lot of the biodiversity.»

For example, the amount of weedy non-native plants across all research sites increased, suggesting that the plant community responded more strongly to environmental changes caused by high - intensity wildfire than disturbances from logging.

In other words, invasive species or successful colonists or weedy generalists — think kudzu and rats — may be spreading into new places, keeping the local species tally up, even as the planet's overall biodiversity is degraded.

To determine how recently the swamp hibiscus and more than 50 other weedy plants arrived in the Galápagos, Jacqueline van Leeuwen of the University of Bern, Switzerland, and her colleagues dug into the fossil record.

Biologists in Arkansas thought the carp would crop reeds and other weedy vegetation.

Drought - resistant genes can be passed onto weedy populations, creating a new species of weeds that can reduce crop quality, interfere with harvest, serve as hosts for crop disease, and produce chemical substances that are toxic to crops.

8 night safaris involve great white shark diving plus they coincide with the cuttlefish mating season and involve leafy and weedy seadragons and sea lions!

The magnificent and diverse fish life include Weedy Sea Dragons, Red Indian Fish, Grey Nurse Shark and Giant Cuttlefish.

Other ongoing projects associated with the APT Program include breeding peaches for better fruit quality and increased disease resistance, studying and sequencing genes responsible for nodule formation in legumes, expanding the genetic diversity of cotton while improving fiber quality and exploring the mechanisms by which weedy species develop resistance to herbicides.

Nature in the City will convert weedy and ice plant - covered public sites along 14th Avenue between Kirkham and Santiago Streets into restored upland dune habitats to retain water and sequester carbon.

From tiny clownfish and Australian weedy sea dragons to giant Japanese spider crabs and awe - inspiring whale sharks, your guests will relish the diverse floating worlds within the ten million gallons of fresh and marine water.

Weedy Nomad: A Walking Tour of LIC's Forgotten Landscapes May 27, 2 — 3 pm Part of the Wilder LIC Group Exhibition Tour commences at the Windmill Community Garden, 39 - 22 29th Street in Long Island City

The arugula in my raised beds is rising and flopping over, living its best weedy life.

Erin and her family raise their own chicken for meat and eggs, have dabbled in pastured Narragansett turkeys, and have a very weedy but very large and productive garden.

«If the litter layer is gone, and the soil is bare and clumpy, the earthworms may help weedy plants come in along with other invasive plants that we don't want.»

This video provides recommendations on how to control weedy rice, from results of collaborative research studies among IRRI, the Rice Research and Development Institute in Sri Lanka, University of Ruhuna, and the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The former are direct goods and services of hedges, botanically diverse field margins, intercropping or weedy undergrowth, the latter do better when released in botanically and ecologically enriched habitats.