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

The floor plate is a structure integral to the developing nervous system of vertebrate organisms.

In vertebrate anatomy, hip (or coxa in medical terminology) refers to either an anatomical region or a joint.

Some species are minor pests of a few commercial crops.

In each case, index roads are used to help quantify total impact of vehicle collisions on specific vertebrate taxa.

Another noteworthy example is the familiar vertebrate body plan, whose structure is controlled by the homeobox (Hox) family of genes.

An aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life.

The axial skeleton is the part of the skeleton that consists of the bones of the head and trunk of a vertebrate.

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

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.

(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.

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

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

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.

Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.

ISPM 15 is an international standard for the treatment of solid wood packaging material to prevent the spread of forest pests, specifically those attacking standing timber.

During the digging, mountain blasting and clearing of thick vegetation, about 3,000 invertebrate and 500 vertebrate fossils were found, and also over 250 plants from a forest consumed by fire of a volcanic explosion, pointed out Hortensia Broce .

So biodiversity can act as a natural insurance policy against sudden environmental changes and a buffer against losses caused by them (as well as by pests and diseases).

Specifically, the Panel notes that Iran's approach does not take due account of changes in crop yields that may be due to the impacts of pests and diseases.

We call for the intensification of international efforts to eradicate agricultural pests, introduce low cost water desalination plants, combat desertification, and reclaim lands and render them suitable for agriculture.

Storage in grain sacks is ineffective mold and pests destroy a 25 kg cloth sack of grain in a year, even if stored off the ground in a dry area.

And then within plant protection, I came into the discipline of biological pest control which we actually define as the use of living organisms to reduce populations of noxious plant pests.

Under the banner of integrated pest management, hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate them

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.

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.

At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding chemicals in our quest for perfect produce.

Number two, many growers are in fact petrified from the idea of resistance, that the pests will become resistant to the chemicals, just in our case that bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.

(o) Analyse the causes of, and address solutions to, threats to forest health and vitality from natural disasters and human activities, including threats from fire, pollution, pests, disease and invasive alien species

Other major threats to forest health and productivity include those posed by fire, storms and other cataclysms, drought, air pollution, the long term effects of climate change, pests, diseases and invasive species.

According to Iraq, Saudi Arabia has merely attributed the alleged crop losses to plant pests and plant diseases with no demonstration of any link between these diseases to the oil well fires.

Some of the ants classified as pests include the pavement ant, yellow crazy ant, sugar ants, the Pharaoh ant, carpenter ants, Argentine ant, odorous house ants, red imported fire ant, and European fire ant.

The materials used for construction include soil and plant matter, and ants carefully select their nest sites Temnothorax albipennis will avoid sites with dead ants, as these may indicate the presence of pests or disease.

So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.

All the six different species rabbits, actually are all performing ecological services for one another, such that the manure of one is the lunch for the other and they take care of pests for one another.

The panel recommended that if there is an intention to include other biological agents capable of being developed as economic weapons, then certain animal pathogens should be included, as well as plant pathogens and some pests of high socio economic importance.

The wood boring types generally favor dying or dead branches on otherwise healthy trees, while a few types attack green wood some of these are serious pests capable of killing trees and causing major economic damage, such as the invasive emerald ash borer.

Host finding disruption Recent studies on host plant finding have shown that flying pests are far less successful if their host plants are surrounded by any other plant or even decoy plants made of green plastic, cardboard, or any other green material.