leaf-eating

Well, they are specific - to leaf-eating caterpillars, that is.

But the study also has implications for conservation of trees in areas occupied by these and other leaf-eating animals.

It is specific for leaf-eating caterpillars and harmless to other organisms.

Another 30 species of leaf-eating scarabeids are also found.

The discovery is considered a major breakthrough in the fight to control the leaf-eating caterpillars.

We've only studied the leaf-eating bees, but their nests are like underground cities.

This attracts ants, which are believed to reduce the numbers of leaf-eating insects.

This, like other gray langurs, is a leaf-eating monkey found in south India.

Butterflies diversified as well, perhaps to take the place of leaf-eating insects wiped out by the extinction.

She released a cloud of leaf-eating midges, their tiny bodies packed with bacteria.

The earliest record of the now known rotenone-containing plants used for killing leaf-eating caterpillars was in 1848.

Dipel is particularly effective on cabbage loopers and other leaf-eating caterpillars.

A leaf-eating caterpillar and the green slug caterpillar attack the foliage.

They avoid eating ants that are armed with strong chemical defenses, such as leaf-eating ants.

"You're trying to grow a forest in the middle of the Sahara: trees, leaf-eating molds, animals, the whole ecology."

A. I came to Malaysia, to the state of Sarawak, in the 1970's to study leaf-eating monkeys.

Experiments in the captive breeding of several, especially leaf-eating species whose dietary needs have been difficult to satisfy, have so far failed.

The hope is that the feeding of a leaf-eating beetle, galerucella, may mean the demise of loosestrife.

Also, many ecologists are banking on a biological control: a leaf-eating beetle that has been introduced to several loosestrife regions.

Leaf-eating insects, especially the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria, occasionally defoliate trees.

Leaf-eating birds are not a common complaint, and as a general rule, neither finches nor sparrows are interested in vegetables.

Many leaf-eating moths survive winter as eggs on the stems of plants that provide food for their larvae when the eggs hatch in spring.

The day started with a visit from Francis Gerden, a farmer with a problem of leaf-eating worms in his apple orchard.

In many places they are fighting the gypsy moth caterpillar with a spore, a natural substance that harms only leaf-eating caterpillars.