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Although chemical control is rarely advised, some insecticides applied to control other insects may kill crown borers as well.
They made entirely new types of tools, like spear throwers, antler straighteners, backed points, burins, shoulder points and borers.
They'll also explore ways to trap the borers and perhaps manipulate the behavior of their natural enemies.
A common method was to bore a hole in the barrel using any of a variety of bung borers, boring taps, augers, tapered reamers, and the like.
Second generation borers initially feed on leaf collars and sheaths, cutting off the flow of nutrients to the developing ear.
Occasionally it can be attacked by leafy mistletoe, verticillium wilt, fungal diseases, stem borers, scale, and some rodents.
Today, most piers and boats are constructed with materials that are resistant to the borers, such as concrete in the case of piers.
As an example, birch trees always get leafminers, aphids and borers while red oaks rarely get significant pests.
From the Early Permian to the Late Triassic, however, there are only a few reports of mite wood borers.
In future articles, we'll talk about plant chewing critters like beetles, caterpillars, borers, and the Leaf Cutter Bee.
And it will zap aphids, borers and other destructive insects that eat flowers and leaves.
The disease is also transmitted by several insects and related pests, including fruit flies, beetles, borers, mites, and even squirrels.
Thus, the hypothesized paleoclimate of the two fossil localities fits well within the range in which both insect and mite wood borers are found today.
Both Z and E borers are found in Europe and were introduced into eastern North America early in the 20th century, presumably on shipments of broomcorn.
They consist of a large number of carefully made large blades and flakes and an unusually high proportion of finished tools including backed knives, scrapers and borers.
Two rice strains were genetically altered to resist two insects, rice stem borers and leaf rollers, which sometimes require heavy use of pesticides to control.
After examining the opening of these traces, it is tempting to assign their origin to the behavior of vermiform borers such as annelids, sipunculids, or phoronids.
The pine sawyers are wood borers and emerge throughout the summer months as adults carrying the nematode from infested or non-infested pine trees.
It is orange frass that you find near the base of the tree when borers are at work, not the grubs themselves.
When denied adequate light and air circulation, it becomes infested with scale insects, leaf beetles and borers.
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I have some trouble with tent-caterpillars, roundheaded borers, fall web-worm, and curculio.
You may pick up on any seabeach scores of examples of the work of these borers.
My trees are troubled with canker-worm, flathead borers, twig-borer, and leaf roller.
For rabbits I wrap the trees with paper or veneering, and for borers I mound the tree up.
I think it pays and is beneficial, as it shades the body of the tree and keeps off the flathead borers.
Polydora and related genera as borers in mollusk shells and other calcareous substrates.
The hardwoods are also warred upon by bugs, weevils, borers, and fungi.
The light trap attracts borers with light, while in the pheromone trap, red palm weevil is attracted to the pheromone by a chemical secretion.
My trees are troubled with borers, and my apples with curculio.
Lepidopteran stalk borers are among the most damaging pests in sugarcane production.
Massachusetts is one of 23 states where emerald ash borers have been found.
Bt corn suppresses of corn borers, thus allowing for improved yield and higher grain quality.
For example, one would expect azaleas in the sun to have lacebugs, dogwoods in droughty spots to have borers, almost anything in a parkinglot island to have problems.
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