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.
• My main focus has been on the role of ants as biological control agents—as predators in the system.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• To Jentsch, the biological control is the lesser of two evils.
  — Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2011
• 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
• Tiger trout act as a biological control in the reservoir, which was part of the reason for the inception of Idaho’s tiger trout stocking program.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 31 May 2023
• But as the examples of the mongoose and cane toad illustrate, biological control can go awry.
  — Christina Nunez, National Geographic, 5 June 2019
• 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
• 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
• Birds could learn to like it, and scientists may develop biological controls against it.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 26 June 2019
• Conserve biological control agents such as predators and the parasitoids that feed on insect pests.
  — oregonlive, 1 June 2021
• Conserve biological control agents such as predators and the parasitoids that feed on insect pests.
  — oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022
• They’re used as a convenient form of biological control, to cull insect pests without having to resort to chemical agents.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 17 Dec. 2010
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There’s been a huge shift from chemical use to biological controls and sustainable fertilizer.
  — Michelle Z. Donahue, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
• One biological control is beneficial nematodes, which sort of look like skinny worms.
  — Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, Indianapolis Star, 8 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Wildlife managers are currently planning on introducing a type of biological control.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Presently, the biological control is inadequate because these pests immigrated from Southeast Asia without their predators.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2021
• The conservation of biological control agents (predators, parasitoids) should be favored over chemical controls.
  — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024