infestation

Examples of infesting

infesting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

However, reversing this sequence, by planting either proso millet or sun-ower before corn, is not effective because of extensive volunteer crop plants infesting corn.
It is a polyphagous pest infesting a wide range of commercial crops such as maize, castor, peach, sorghum, turmeric, ginger, durian, sunflower and cotton.
The highest intensity was 71 monogeneans of 4 species infesting a single host.
Influence of exposure period and management methods on the effectiveness of chickens as predators of ticks infesting cattle.
Description of a microscopic entozoon infesting the muscles of the human body.
Many host species fail to develop adequate immunity to a tick infesting them, even after prolonged exposure.
The proportionality between maximum abundances of the cereal aphids was studied using a 10-year census of the numbers of aphids infesting 268 winter wheat plots.
Differences were found between lice on farmed and wild salmon, between lice on farmed salmon in different bays and even putative individual ' farm markers ' within lice populations infesting sea trout.
This mixture of age classes in 'mid' and 'late' core samplings resulted from the development of larvae infesting rice early after flooding and continued reinfestation of rice by later-arriving females.
The trouble should be put right at the beginning, by the preven- tion of wood hornets from descending into the pits and infesting them.
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