How to Use biological control in a Sentence
biological control
noun- She uses biological controls in her garden.
- She practices biological control in her gardening.
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To Jentsch, the biological control is the lesser of two evils.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
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But what if the ship or colony were even more alive, Menezes wonders, full of biosensors and biological control systems?
—Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2015
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But as the examples of the mongoose and cane toad illustrate, biological control can go awry.
—Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
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Using biological controls is our best bet in keeping this entire group of trees on our landscape in the long term in North America.
—Alyssa Lukpat, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
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If a lot of redhumped caterpillars have been parasitized, this biological control alone may be all that is needed to rid the tree of these pesky insects.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
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Birds could learn to like it, and scientists may develop biological controls against it.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
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Conserve biological control agents such as predators and the parasitoids that feed on insect pests.
—oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022
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Conserve biological control agents such as predators and the parasitoids that feed on insect pests.
—oregonlive, 1 June 2021
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But biological control faces its own limitation: There have to be enough borers in an area to sustain wasp populations.
—Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
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Fisher and LeBrun speculate that pest control agencies might be able to use this microsporidian as a kind of biological control agent, because the pathogen doesn’t ravage native ant species.
—Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Mar. 2022
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Efforts to control the plants using herbicides and biological controls such as weevils that eat only the target plant have limited success.
—Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
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The more tenacious pest is whitefly, and the options for dealing with this range from biological controls that include ordering parasitic wasps to heavy-duty systemic pesticides, with the risk of harm to beneficial insects.
—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
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But in both cases biological controls—where a natural enemy organism is introduced to counter the invader—turned out to be a useful tool, and the war between human and insect ended in stalemate.
—Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
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The league’s 51-page reopening plan calls for games to take place at stadiums with biological controls similar to those required by medical facilities.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 4 May 2020
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There’s been a huge shift from chemical use to biological controls and sustainable fertilizer.
—Michelle Z. Donahue, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
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One biological control is beneficial nematodes, which sort of look like skinny worms.
—Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
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It’s regarded as the classic example of biological control of a pest, an alternative to harmful pesticides.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2020
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Even with an effective biological control, however, the DNR takes extra precautions — aerial spraying — in high-use areas.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2022
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Wildlife managers are currently planning on introducing a type of biological control.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
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Biocontrol - pest management involving live biological control agents is an increasingly important part of the tool box for farmers in general.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
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Many researchers believe identifying and releasing natural enemies of the ash borer, an approach called biological control, could help ash sooner.
—Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
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In the meantime, entomologists are using biological control -- the practice of releasing living organisms to prey on pests -- as a means of keeping psyllid populations in check in residential areas where pesticide sprays have failed.
—Anna Kuchment, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2013
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McCullough and others are more bullish on saving existing trees through biological control: identifying, rearing, and releasing insects or other species that kill unwanted pests.
—Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
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Presently, the biological control is inadequate because these pests immigrated from Southeast Asia without their predators.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
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The conservation of biological control agents (predators, parasitoids) should be favored over chemical controls.
—oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
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Numerous conservation groups and government agencies also registered comments on the proposal expressing their difficulties and expenses in controlling tallow tree and how the use of a biological control agent could be beneficial.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 8 May 2022
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Several species of parasitic wasps are under consideration as a method of biological control, though this strategy typically only becomes practical once an invasive species becomes established.
—Zach Montague, New York Times, 21 May 2018
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Presentation highlights include irrigation for small farms, biological control in high tunnels, diseases in vegetables, storing pesticides, urban agriculture updates and transplant production.
—Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
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