How To Use eelworm In A Sentence
- Potato cyst eelworms are normally hatched from their protective cyst in spring.
- Brazil, and some other American coffee-producing countries, have a serious disease caused by the eelworm, and for that reason called the eelworm disease. All About Coffee
- The microscopic eelworms live and feed within the bulbs and foliage.
- There is also a form of tagetes that is proving good at getting rid of eelworm. The Sun
- The eelworm's eggs are watered into the soil, where they hatch and infect slugs, preventing them from feeding.
- Investigations into the resistance of tomatoes to the potato root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis Woll Xml's Blinklist.com
- It is caused by a parasitic eelworm or nematode, of minute size, which penetrates the roots and induces the formation of numerous irregular swellings or galls, in which are bred great numbers of young worms. Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato
- Root eelworm, Heterodera rostochiensis, is a serious pest, particularly in the UK, where losses as high as 50-60 per cent have been reported for early potatoes grown on infected land during a dry spring and early summer. Chapter 25
- A popular one is Mexican Marigolds Tagetes sp. which is an aromatic plant, above and below ground and can deter quite a few pests e.g. eelworm and cabbage white butterfly, but also attract the hover fly which eats aphids and other soft bodied insects. Organic Gardening: Pest Control
- The Chrysanthemum eelworm also attacks asters, chrysanthemums, dahlias, doronicums and some common garden weeds such as groundsel, sow thistle, buttercup and chickweed.