The pests that the standard seeks to control are typically insect pests and other pests and diseases vectored by insects.

It has one research network and two technical cooperation projects on plant protection, specifically on the area wide control of insect pests.

I had never seen a cockroach before coming to Japan in my early 20s. In the cool, dry corner of Canada where I grew up, there are very few insect pests.

I ate an insect by accident.

Many flowers, for example, attract only one specific species of insect, and therefore rely on that insect for successful reproduction.

And then you could decide Is this an insect I want to kill, or an insect I don't want to kill?

He crushed the insect with his heel.

Some species are minor pests of a few commercial crops.

(a) International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) Kenya

If an insect was introduced into the box, rules governed that, too.

However, new pests have emerged in Bt cotton, leading to higher use of pesticides.

Bt cotton technology has failed to control pests or secure farmers lives and livelihoods.

It feeds on worms, insect larvae, and small invertebrates occasionally frogs, snakes and mice.

Some species of insect are able to autohaemorrhage when they are attacked by predators.

it is easy and cheap to cultivate and free from any serious pests and diseases

16,000 kilometers, four generations, mind you, for a two inch long insect. It's quite incredible.

With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders.

It also takes into consideration both direct and indirect damage by pests, so it includes weeds.

Parties also suggested the need for measures to combat mud torrents, forest fires, pests and diseases.

At the start, the technology for engineering Bt genes into cotton was aimed primarily at controlling pests.

A large number of thrips species are considered pests, because they feed on plants with commercial value.

Historically insect collecting has been widespread and was in the Victorian age a very popular educational hobby.

And these electron microscope pictures here's one of an orchid mimicking an insect you can see that different parts of the structure have different colors and different textures to our eye, have very, very different textures to what an insect might perceive.

But DDT sprayed on local homes, there's nothing better to eliminate malaria, besides insect DDT impregnated mosquito nets.

Improved soil fertility management and insect and pest management are also considered important adaptation options in some countries.

(h) Forest fires, pests, diseases and abiotic factors affecting forests, including storm damage and the impact of climate change

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations.

By the 15th century, toxic chemicals such as arsenic, mercury, and lead were being applied to crops to kill pests.

They were scarce in comparison to the populations of other insects, representing only about 1 of the entire insect population.

She died of blood poisoning (resulting from an insect bite) on 26 August 1923 at New Cottage, North Lancing, Sussex.

Second, once an insect is near its target, it avoids landing on dirt, but lands on the nearest green thing.

Larvicides New larvicides, such as microbial products or insect development inhibitors (IDI), are now available that are more environmentally friendly.

From Boston, Edwards moved to New York to stay for some ten years, performing on stage and participating in insect studies.

The African continent has benefited from the Agency's capacity building in applying SIT for the eradication of tsetse flies and other pests.

The general public also benefits from the use of pesticides for the control of insect borne diseases and illnesses, such as malaria.

In its report, CPF states that a global information system is monitoring the impact of insect pest and disease outbreaks on forests.

Moore's law made computing cheap so cheap we can weigh the life of an individual insect and decide thumbs up or thumbs down.

Every life form on this planet every insect, every bacteria, every plant, every animal, every human, every politician is coded in that stuff.

Insect collecting has left traces in European cultural history, literature and songs (e.g., Georges Brassens's La chasse aux papillons ( The Hunt for Butterflies )).

Thopha saccata, commonly known as the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world.

So I assume everybody knows that if you actually had a piece of amber and it had an insect in it, and you drilled into it, and you got something out of that insect, and you cloned it, and you did it over and over and over again, you'd have a room full of mosquitoes.

At the species level, it's been estimated that insect based pollination, bees pollinating fruit and so on, is something like 190 billion dollars worth.

Same principle it only has six moving parts, six motors, but it has springy, tuned legs. It moves in the gait of the insect.

They behave with a swarm behavior, where they relate to each other, modeled after insect swarm behavior, and they could be made very numerous.

A pest control technology that fails to control pests might be good for seed corporations that are also agrichemical corporations. For farmers, it translates into suicide.