asian beetle造句

• The bug looked Asian to Hoebeke, so he checked the university's collection of Asian beetles.
• The invaders are apparently Asian beetles of a sort never before seen in North America.
• Wang and Chinese trade officials have expressed particular irritation that the regulation targets only China, when the Asian beetle also is found in other nations.
• The Asian beetle entered the United States aboard a Japanese ship in New Orleans some years ago and has made its way to much of the country since.
• A species of Asian beetle known to survive entirely by eating the adelgid is being considered for the Canyon, while a solution to the stiltgrass problem remains as yet unidentified.
• Q . I found a very large beetle in my house and am afraid that it may be that Asian beetle that's causing so much damage to trees in Brooklyn.
• If it spreads, the Asian beetle is of particular concern not just for syrup farmers but for New England tourism generally, because " often the peak foliage is tied in with maples,"
• Q . Now that most insects are disappearing for the winter, is there anything I can do with regard to watching for the dangerous Asian beetles that were recently spotted in Manhattan?
• Nearly 30 percent of the large trees in Massachusetts and Vermont are maples, which have proven to be the favorite meal of the Asian beetle in Brooklyn, according to US Forest Service studies.
• The secretary was joined by U . S . Reps . Carolyn Maloney and Joseph Crowley, New York City Democrats who touted their efforts to obtain federal funds to combat the Asian beetle.
• Hoebeke said the Asian beetles dine on elms, willows and poplars in their natural habitat, but here have so far eaten horse-chestnut trees and four kinds of maple : Norway, sugar, silver and sycamore.
• Maloney, Crowley, Glickman and other USDA officials then shoveled dirt onto a newly planted tree in Ruppert Park on the Upper East Side, where Maloney said the Asian beetle has killed two dozen trees.
• Factories such as Li's client, which produces 30, 000 casters a month for American garbage dumpsters, must comply, whether or not the Asian beetle ever has poked its 2-inch antennae from their packing crates.
• Last week, entomologist Allan Samuelson of the University of Honolulu's Bernice P . Bishop Museum, which maintains one of the world's largest collections of Asian beetles, confirmed that the predator was the long-horned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis.
• The notice distributed by the U . S . Embassy here flatly charged that the Asian beetles were discovered in 22 locations " and in every instance they were traced back to wood packing materials from China ."
• Hoping to get a jump on a maple-munching Asian beetle before it decimates New England's forests, US Senator Patrick J . Leahy has won $ 500, 000 in research funds for the Agriculture Department to monitor the pest.
• An Asian beetle that found its way to Brooklyn, N . Y ., is devouring maple trees there, and some foresters fear that the insects will spread, ravaging maples _ and dimming fall foliage displays _ across the country.
• The US Agriculture Department secretary proposed major new restrictions Friday on imports of wooden shipping pallets from China in an effort to slow the spread of an Asian beetle that New England officials fear could ravage the region's maple trees.
• The Asian beetle is valuable in controlling crop pests, particularly the aphids that feed on pecan trees, but it has now often become an irritating but not noxious house pest, swarming as it seeks a warm place to spend the winter.
• Field tests of two biological control agents _ an Asian beetle that eats the foliage and an Israeli mealy bug that sucks sap from the twigs and kills them _ are being held up by a need to assess the effects of salt cedar control on an endangered bird, the southwestern willow flycatcher, which has taken to nesting in the tree in some parts of Arizona, DeLoach said.