How To Use mirid bug In A Sentence
- Our investigations in this case found that Marais and her company Zonda Resources Limited had imported and then bred large numbers of an insect known as a mirid bug (Macrolophus pygmaeus) and sold them for the biological control of the pest whitefly in commercial greenhouses," Mr Hayes says. NZ On Screen
- But now that Bt cotton doesn't need to be sprayed, the mirid population has thrived and spilled over into other flowering crops, so spraying against mirid bugs has had to increase. Ars Technica
- Lindane, a highly poisonous organochlorine, is sprayed on crops of cacao plants growing in Ghana and other west African countries to control mirid bugs, which cause the plants to wilt.
- As cotton is one of the few flowering host crops during that period, mirid bugs love it. Ars Technica
- But a 10-year study across six major cotton-growing regions of China found that by spraying their crops less, farmers allowed mirid bugs to thrive and infest their own and neighbouring farms. AMERICAblog News
