How does a boll weevil destroy cotton plants?
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They munch out of course.  They need new winter clothes.\n\nThey eat away at the roots of the plants.
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Insects are sprayed with DDT, then other animals eat them, then yet other animals eat those. DDT absorbs into fatty tissues and can persist without being removed. \n\n Despite claims about thinning eggshells in birds, no scientific study has shown DDT to harm any animal other than insects evan at very high doses.
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Nothing.  Except have a lower water volume due to warmer water molecules converting to gas.  However, the warmer water may have an efffect on the plants you are studying.  If you water a plant with hot water it may kill the plant.
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sounds to me like it might be clover mites.\n\nhttp://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef627.htm
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Mice, monkeys, plant eating insects.
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cotton industry and dupont
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The same way dead flowers get pollinated.
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harmful: parasitism\n\nit feeds off plants, no benefit to plant
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yes definately you havent pulled out and destroyed the male plants.\nas soon as the plants are forming little yellow flowers on branches that spring up higher than the rest of the plant you must pull these out .and only leave the female plant if not they will polinate the females and directly effect the amount of canabis(less)that forms on the female buds ,the less seeds the better.\n\nyou never want to see little yellow flowers and you only see them in the early stages and they are usually about half of the seeds that come up.
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It has recently been discovered that the levees were built with a substance derived from sugarcane.  New Orleans is infested with Formosan termites, which can eat through cement to get to sweet-smelling stuff.  They are finding   areas of the underground part of the levees that were eaten away.  The levees need to be rebuilt properly.  Also, the levee closest to my house broke because of a barge that was not properly secured before the hurricane; it drifted into a levee and broke through.
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the pitcher plant eats mostly flies and some of these plants are used in gardens for decorative purposes so the pitcher plant will eat the common house fly scintific name\nMusca domestica (Linnaeus) Order: Diptera
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Botana curus produces Curol, a compound used for treating certain kinds of cancer.  Curol can not be produced in the laboratory.\n  Botana curus grows very slowly and is on the endangered species list, so its ability to provide curol in large quantities is limited\n  I do not quite remember where they grow( i learned that briefly in college, but if it is a terrestrial plant ( grows on land ) I would think that any of the other things that endanger other plants would endanger this one. Lets say, burning of forests to open area for farms. Introducing cows and other herbivorous (plant eating) in fields where the plants grow. If it is a strictly cold weather plant, may be the greenhouse effect (you know with the heating of the planet and so on. e-mail me with the exact environment where they grow and I will give do your homework! good luck
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Systemic insecticides are a special group of insecticides that are taken up into the plant through it's leaves or through it's roots. \nhttp://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/hortline/messages/3145.shtml  \n \n\nSystemic insecticides work best, "systemic" referring to a product that travels throughout the plant's system. Insects are killed when they feed on the sap. These insecticides are usually sold as granules. \nhttp://pss.uvm.edu/ppp/articles/feb03tip.html  \n \n\nSYSTEMIC INSECTICIDE - A pesticide which can be granular or liquid, used at the base of the plant and travels through the vascular stream.\n[back to top] \n-T- ... \nhttp://www.emilycompost.com/garden_glossary.htm
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Use in pest control\nB. thuringiensis produces crystals of toxin (Bt toxin) that are lethal to larval stages (caterpillars) of the insects which belong to orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera, but are considered harmless to most other organisms, including humans. Therefore, the spores of the bacterium and the toxic crystals (that are produced in the bacterial plasmids) are used in crop protection, especially in organic farming, where the use of chemical pesticides is not considered an option. This is done by spraying plants with the bacterium itself, or with an insecticide that contains the bacterial spores. The agent has been available since 1938 in France, 1950 in the USA, and was improved in the 1960s. Today different subspecies are used against the different insects, For instance, Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis is effective against mosquito larvae and some midges. Other variants used are B. thuringiensis kurstaki, B. thuringiensis aizawa, B. thuringiensis san diego, and B. thuringiensis tenebrionis.\nAnother way to protect plants is to create transgenic plants that express the gene for the bacterial toxin, as is currently done in the USA, India, China and Australia for cotton (Bt-cotton), and for corn (Bt-corn) in the U.S. and Canada. This has generated some controversy, especially regarding the ill effects Bt corn was purported to have on monarch butterflies. The emergence of resistance in affected insects is another significant issue.[2]\n\nalso see:
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The plant will want water that causes it to work the least.\nI'd say, then, that lukewarm (room temp.) is best.\nCold water must be warmed up, and hot water (damaging the plant, burning the roots...bad) must be cooled down.
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Go to the local pharmacy and ask for Boric Acid. Its a white powder, cheap and very effective at getting rid of an assortment of insect critters. Put it in a salt shaker and sprinkle around the ant infestion. The ants will die and they will all take some of the poison back to their nest where it'll kill off ants in the nest. Boric acid isn't dangerous to you, kids, cats or dogs but it's murder on insects.
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Some hopes !\nLet us see what will happen if you used a -\n[a] Cotton string :\nIf you swallowed it, it will most possibly be churned within your stomach, and turned into a tangled mass and soon block and choke your small intestines - plus remain there !\nBut if you 'ate' [masticated and pulverised] it, since cotton is basically an agricultural product, it would be acted upon by the digestive enzymes - and turned into unidentifiable excreta.\n[b] Nylon string :\nWhether you swallowed or 'ate' it [impossible, since it is synthetic], it will not be digested within your stomach, and get knotted into a tangled mass and immediately block and choke your entire alimentary canal !