How to Use biocontrol in a Sentence

biocontrol

noun

• Witt says that biocontrol will be the best way of managing the pest.
  — Stephanie Bailey, CNN, 9 Dec. 2019
• If that was true, a biocontrol program — bringing the predator to the pest — could help trees in the United States.
  — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2014
• Today scientists refer to the episode as the first instance of modern biocontrol.
  — Martin J. Kernan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• Rose rosette virus, transmitted by a mite, was used as a biocontrol for troublesome wild hedges of Rosa multiflora in the Midwest.
  — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
• The transition to studying biocontrol methods signals a shift away from the more physical or chemical aspect of control to one that will allow the agency to let nature do the work.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• These findings also call into question the use of parasitoid wasps as biocontrol for managing pests.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2012
• To save the hemlock, many scientists have placed their bets on biocontrol: introducing one or more species to reduce adelgid populations.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 15 Jan. 2020
• The mass production of baby mantids led to (by accident) my first biocontrol program: by setting the tiny nymphs free on my mum’s fuschias, an infestation of whitefly was combated.
  — Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 July 2017
• The introduction of the Novius ladybug to California remains the standard against which all biocontrol efforts are measured.
  — Martin J. Kernan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
• After that, a company could develop a biocontrol product.
  — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• Other treatments from copper compounds to genetic biocontrol are in the mix as a collaborative dedicated to mussel control plans for the future.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 30 July 2021
• Among other methods, current biocontrol strategies against the mold involve dousing fields with the nontoxic version of the fungus, which would hypothetically leave no place for toxic A. flavus to colonize.
  — Roni Dengler, Science | AAAS, 19 Dec. 2017
• But biocontrol and pesticides can be expensive and virtually impossible to deliver at the scale of millions upon millions of trees.
  — Marguerite Holloway, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• The hypervirulent myxoma virus, a pathogen deliberately introduced into Australian rabbits in the 1950s as a form of biocontrol, for instance, appears to have become less lethal over time.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 June 2021
• In a single year more than 24 million browntail-moth webs were clipped off trees and burned, while federal and local governments introduced dozens of different biocontrol agents, including predator insects from Europe.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 7 July 2021
• Schiller and her team work on researching and developing multiple biocontrol agents that are effective against mosquitoes but won't disrupt the environment.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024