How To Use Overwinter In A Sentence
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Though the population is still fragile, today as many as 1,000 birds overwinter in the state.
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Many birds are nesting earlier than they used to, while others are overwintering in this country instead of migrating to warmer parts.
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At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
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This half-hardy perennial will overwinter in a sheltered spot in full sun.
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This also includes such environments as deep sea diving, solo flying, and Antarctic overwintering.
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Overwintering herbaceous plants or evergreen trees can only survive the winter seasons of cold climates when they are able to acclimate.
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The most important eriophyid mites are the wormlike gall mites and bud mites, most of which overwinter in the buds and cause deformities of the buds and leaves and otherwise limit their development.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
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Some species overwinter near the roots of weeds such as stickweed, plantain, and fleabane.
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Overwinter feeding of birds in gardens can make the difference between life and death for many.
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In Nebraska it overwinters as a larvae or pupae under manure piles or in other breeding areas.
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Its lifecycle begins in the spring when infective spores are forcibly ejected from reproductive structures that sprout from overwintering pods of black, hardened mycelium called "sclerotia.
Boing Boing
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Parasitoids overwinter as pupae in mines within fallen leaves.
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Lightly fork over the soil in late autumn to expose overwintering sawflies to predators and the elements.
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Their above-ground parts die back, but their roots overwinter, and the plants resprout in the spring.
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There will be a small percentage of animals that will" overwinter "within the bays, utilizing the deeper holes as a thermal refuge when temperatures drop precipitously.
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Our results indicate that mesopelagic fish pose a stronger predatory threat than invertebrates to overwintering Calanus.
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Ewes that avoided the winter range, Wehausen found, lambed a month later than those that did not, and the snows and freezing temperatures took a heavy toll on lambs forced to overwinter on the mountaintops.
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Host/insect synchrony is mediated in R. pomonella through variation in the depth of the overwintering pupal diapause.
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Later in the season, the caterpillars re-emerge to spin cocoons and overwinter under the loose bark of the trees.
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Pathogens of carrot spotted blight were able to overwinter in seeds, plant residues and soils, but cann't be isolated from fermented manures.
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Birds that overwinter in the northeastern U.S., like the red cardinal, are also the first to herald the onset of spring.
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From sunup to sundown, an overwintering bird's focus in life is to feed its face.
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The plum curculio overwinters in the soil, therefore remove all fallen fruit, and cultivate the soil to help break the cycle.
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Riel also secured the consent of Colonel Black, the commanding officer at Fort Assinniboine, to allow the Metis to overwinter at the Big Bend of the Milk River.
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If you overwinter your hive, don't harvest all the honey from the hive.
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The preferred overwintering sites of adult chinch bugs are dense clumps of native warm-season bunchgrasses such as little bluestem, big bluestem and switchgrass.
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No matter, because a new fingerpost points down Potter Lane, a sunken track, wall and gorse each side with foxgloves ready to overwinter in the algae green rocks.
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Under these conditions, the overwintering resting spores germinate and can infect plants directly or through the production of zoospores.
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Insects such as ladybirds and lacewings overwinter there too, so leave the tidying till spring.
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In mild climates, dahlia tubers can overwinter in the ground; in cold climates, dig and store them in a frost-free place until planting time in spring.
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Purchase starts each spring, or overwinter potted plants in a greenhouse or sunporch.
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There they await favorable winds and temperatures before crossing Lake Erie and continuing on to overwinter sites in Mexico.
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Lightly fork over the soil in late autumn to expose overwintering sawflies to predators and the elements.
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More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely.
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Such overwintering vats should be as simple as possible: externally filtered zeolite somewhere in the system to cope with ammonia.
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For example, some moth caterpillars overwinter on exposed ridges.
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When temperatures drop, stable flies overwinter as larvae or pupae in piles of larval breeding material.
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Larvae overwinter in the stalk, pupate in early summer, and adults emerge from June to September.
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Wetlands in the desert area of the Western China play an important role in migration, breeding and overwinter of waterfowl.
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Pear psylla overwinters in the adult stage as a distinct morphological phenotype, the winterform, which began appearing in pear orchards of the study area in early September.
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Our two major species overwinter as eggs in the soil, hatching in early June to feed on corn roots.
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Stem segments prepared from pondweed (Potamo geton distinctus A. Benn.) turions (overwintering buds) elongate in anaerobic conditions, whereas there is almost no elongation in air.
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Some of the alders held overwintering white patches of woolly aphids on their gray stems.
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Diplolepis overwinter in a prepupal stage; they are freezing-intolerant and develop cryoprotectants that lower their supercooling points.
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The best control measure is to collect and destroy fallen leaves in the autumn, as this will prevent the fungus overwintering on them and infecting the new foliage in the spring.
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These Asian ladybugs may overwinter under siding or shingles, in attics or soffits, or even hibernate indoors where they become active on warm days and seek a way outdoors.
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When the seeds have vacated the plant it leaves plenty of little nooks for beneficial insects to overwinter.
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Though all leeks tolerate some frost, some overwinter better than others.
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Early in the year, around the time when petals fall, the overwintered beetles cut semicircular scars in fruit as they feed.
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Despite their differences, the two oceans support basically similar food webs, with high seasonal productivity from small overwintering standing crops.
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It's been overwintering in the sun room, but now that it has a larger pot I think I will put it in a relatively sheltered spot outside.
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When the seeds have vacated the plant it leaves plenty of little nooks for beneficial insects to overwinter.
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Sown in the spring for fall harvest, they also overwinter well when mulched heavily.
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Permit rose hips to remain on the shrub as food for overwintering birds and color interest in an otherwise dull winter garden.
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I collapse the antenna and walk back along the cobbles, thinking again of the man who overwintered in this area.
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An easy way to overwinter desirable varieties is to root cuttings in the fall.
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The larval generation and adult flight order is as indicated because offspring from third-flight individuals overwinter as diapausing pupae and emerge the following spring.
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Although annual die-offs of 60 to 300 caribou occurred during the winters of 1987 – 1988, 1988 – 1989, and 1990 – 1991 when freezing rains occurred [22], Larter and Nagy [23] concluded that the drop in number of Banks Island caribou in 1994 and in 1998 happened despite high calf production, high overwinter survival rates of calves, and less severe winter snow conditions.
Renewable resource use and climate change in the arctic
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The preferred overwintering sites of adult chinch bugs are dense clumps of native warm-season bunchgrasses such as little bluestem, big bluestem and switchgrass.
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There they await favorable winds and temperatures before crossing Lake Erie and continuing on to overwinter sites in Mexico.
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Even the loss of a few trees from the canopy hurts overwintering butterflies.
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At least 50,000 snakes overwinter in these dens every year, dispersing into the surrounding muskeg swampland during summer.
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Seeds for the spring plantings were cold stratified for 14 days to simulate the cold experienced by overwintering seeds.
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They thrive in conditions from dry to shady woodland soil, and their foliage is semi-evergreen, so they hold their place in the garden overwinter.
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It may overwinter like most gaillardias but is being marketed as an annual.
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Frost used to kill them off, but now they "overwinter" and produce more generations each year as they go.
A Convenient Untruth
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The sixteen goose populations that nest in the Arctic and overwinter in the western Palearctic.
Effects of climate change on the biodiversity of the Arctic
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Take cuttings of tender perennials and annuals that you want to overwinter.
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Hatchling painted turtles commonly overwinter within their natal nests and survive exposure to temperatures as low as - 12 [degrees] C by supercooling.
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Citrus and tropical trees should be moved to a heated greenhouse or solarium before the first frost to overwinter indoors.
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The decrease in the number of fall captures could reflect natural mortality of overwintering adults and losses due to two prior removal-trapping sessions.
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Overwintering herbaceous plants or evergreen trees can only survive the winter seasons of cold climates when they are able to acclimate.
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Also called a bedeguar gall or Robin's pincushion, this gall is formed by a Cynipid wasp, Diplolepis rosae, that overwinters in the gall in the larval stage, then completes its life cycle in the spring.
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Repotting them has taken care of removing the mulch, which needs doing at this time of year so that the birds can rootle around in the pot and eat some of the nasties which are attempting to overwinter in there.
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Unlike the mopane worm, which over-winters in the chrysalis or pupa stage, Thongolifha overwinters in the adult stage.
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In the North, mosquitoes couldn't survive overwintering, so there wasn't yellow fever.
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They seldom overwinter north of southern Kansas, where they can be a major pest of winter wheat, especially when mild winters permit reproduction and survival.
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No matter, because a new fingerpost points down Potter Lane, a sunken track, wall and gorse each side with foxgloves ready to overwinter in the algae green rocks.
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The film director humorously compared the number of people who rectified their name with the number of black-faced spoonbills, a protected migratory bird that overwinters in Taiwan.
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The worms then burrow into the soil and form an earthen cell, entering the prepupa stage, which overwinters.
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Most of them overwinter elsewhere, like the broad-tailed and rufous hummingbirds that pass the cold months in central Mexico, migrating back in summer to drink flow-er nectar and make their chicks on high.
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Later in the season, the caterpillars re-emerge to spin cocoons and overwinter under the loose bark of the trees.
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It was very nice indeed but I have to fight the urge to be TOO tidy, so the wee bugs and beasties have somewhere to overwinter.
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Caterpillars hatch from overwintering eggs in early to mid-May shortly after snowmelt.
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Botrytis overwinters as small, dark, hard structures, called sclerotia, on plant debris and other surfaces.
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Don't tidy up too much in the fall; whether a butterfly overwinters as egg, caterpillar, chrysalis or adult, it needs a place to hibernate during the cold months.
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An alternative is to overwinter these standards in a greenhouse.
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Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island
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These birds generally overwinter in tropical regions.
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The RSPB was particularly keen to provide a replacement habitat for the black-tail godwit, which overwinters on the Humber, before returning to Iceland in early spring.
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Chafers overwinter below ground as pupae and the adults emerge in spring.
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Overwinter feeding of birds in gardens can make the difference between life and death for many.
Times, Sunday Times
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Winter bird communities in pine forests of the southeastern United States are composed of residents and potentially large numbers of overwintering migrants, including sparrows, warblers, finches, kinglets, and woodpeckers.
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Potamogeton pectinatus is an aquatic monocot that overwinters as small tubers in the beds of lakes and rivers where oxygen supply can be severely limited or extinguished.
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Several generations of garden webworms develop each season, the last of which may overwinter in the soil in the pupal stage.
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Sobhian says more studies are needed on G. canella's overwintering habitat and host specificity before its value as a biocontrol can be fully ascertained.
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The armyworm probably does not overwinter in Nebraska, but reinvades the northern part of its range each spring.
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Most arctic diadromous species are actually anadromous (i.e., use estuarine and/or marine environments for feeding and rearing; and freshwater environments for spawning, early life history, and, in the case of most arctic species, overwintering); only freshwater eels (Anguillidae) and some lampreys (Petromyzontidae) are catadromous (i.e., breed at sea and rear in freshwater).
Effects of climate change on arctic anadromous fish
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So the problem is, do I dig it up and "overwinter" it inside or do I turn her lose on the world and see if she's hardy enough to make it on her own?
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Cardboard bands have been used to monitor a variety of overwintering predatory arthropods, including Neuroptera, spiders, and Heteroptera, all taxa that were monitored in the present study.
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Despite their differences, the two oceans support basically similar food webs, with high seasonal productivity from small overwintering standing crops.
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Some winter feeding regimes such as the overwintering of dry suckler cows require little more than maintenance diets.
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Agaves, pelargoniums, yuccas, sedum, sempervivum, cacti - if they can survive your winters or you have a light frost-free place to overwinter them - all are suitable.
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Millions of the orange and black-winged insects migrate to the Oyamel fir forest in Mexico to overwinter, he said, noting that 'overwinter' is a term that refers to the winter migration of butterflies and other critters.
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When temperatures drop, stable flies overwinter as larvae or pupae in piles of larval breeding material.
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By then, overwintered and newly seeded greens will be sprouting; try sowing some cilantro, spinach, mustard and mache this year.
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Seedcorn beetles overwinter as adults or pupae.