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The bacteria which causes typhoid fever may be spread through poor hygiene habits and public sanitation conditions, and sometimes also by flying insects feeding on feces.
Target pests can include insects, plant pathogens, weeds, molluscs, birds, mammals, fish, nematodes ( roundworms ), and microbes that destroy property, cause nuisance, spread disease or are vectors for disease.
It is also clear that climate change will, in many parts of the world, adversely affect socio-economic sectors, including water resources, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and human settlements, ecological systems ( particularly forests and coral reefs ), and human health ( particularly diseases spread by insects ), with developing countries being the most vulnerable.
This fungus can spread to other insects.
Lockwood thinks that it is very likely that the U. S. did use insects dropped from aircraft during the Korean War to spread diseases, and that the Chinese and North Koreans were not simply engaged in a propaganda campaign when they made these allegations, since the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense had approved their use in the fall of 1950 at the " earliest practicable time ".
Many species of hoverfly larvae prey upon pest insects, including aphids and the leafhoppers which spread some diseases like curly top.
It is possible that the Red-necked Grebe originally evolved in North America and later spread to Europe, where a change of diet to include more insects helped to reduce competition with its larger cousin.
Though the vectors of communication are similar, either contact with an infected animal, cage, feeding or water dishes, and insects, pasteurellosis can also be spread through breeding, specifically infecting the sexual organs of the animal.
deal in a similar way with domesticated and wild animals, including the dog, serpents, bees and insects ; they also include a general treatise on animal physiology spread over books xxi .- xxii.
In Australia, about 30 insects have been introduced in an attempt to control the spread of lantanas, and this has caused problems of its own.
Buying and burning firewood that was cut only a short distance from its final destination prevents the accidental spread of invasive tree-killing insects and diseases.
This separation prevents cooking fires from spreading to the living spaces, should they spread out of control, as well as reducing smoke and insects attracted to cooking from gathering in living quarters ..
Before World War II, pyrethrum, an extract of a flower from Japan, had been used to control these insects and the diseases they can spread.
The crop-damaging species have spread from Eurasia to most of the rest of the world and are considered pest insects almost everywhere.
It fell after the people disobeyed their God Khakaba and so he send a giant boulder from the sky which hit the land of Mbayi causing an earthquake followed by swarms of stinging insects spread allover.
The phytoplasmas are mainly spread by insects of the families Cicadellidea ( leafhoppers ), Fulgoridea ( planthoppers ) and Psyllidae ( jumping plant lice )
Hymenolepis nana infections are much more common than Hymenolepis diminuta infections in humans because, in addition to being spread by insects, the disease can be spread directly from person to person by eggs in feces.
The adaptations of the whitefly to plants facilitate the spread of dangerous plant viruses, which these insects are notorious for transmitting.
Research has shown that when insects are electrocuted bug zappers can spread a mist containing insect parts up to about from the device.
The virus can be spread from one farm to another by seagulls and aquatic insects.
This distinguishes them from entomophilous and zoophilous species ( whose pollen is spread by insects and vertebrates respectively ).
They usually are of more nutritional value to insects, which may use them for food and inadvertently spread them to other flowers.
Its main purpose is to prevent the international transport and spread of disease and insects that could negatively affect plants or ecosystems.

insects and disease
The total adverse impact of disease, insects, fire, weather, destructive animals, and other forces on the uses and values of forest resources is not generally recognized.
About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.
In addition to direct protection measures, more intensive management of timber resources will assist in reduction of losses from insects and disease.
Protection from insects and disease
the protection of forage, timber, and wildlife resources from fire, insects, and disease ; ;
the level of salvage cutting in dead and dying timber stands and the opportunity to promptly salvage losses resulting from fire, windstorm, insects, and disease ; ;
Drought, hail, disease, and insects take their toll of crops.
Disadvantages ( from the modern perspective ) are that space is used for a whole year, some nutrients might be leached due to exposure to rainfall, and disease producing organisms and insects may not be adequately controlled.
Chronic Chagas disease remains a major health problem in many Latin American countries, despite the effectiveness of hygienic and preventive measures, such as eliminating the transmitting insects.
Infectious diseases can be transmitted, e. g. by hand-to-mouth contact with infectious material on surfaces, by bites of insects or other carriers of the disease, and from contaminated water or food ( often via faecal contamination ), etc.
Such risks include crop loss or damage caused by weather, hail, drought, frost damage, insects, or disease.
rural forests and to protect communities and the environment from wildland fires, insects, disease, and invasive plants.
: any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying or controlling any pest, including vectors of human or animal disease, unwanted species of plants or animals causing harm during or otherwise interfering with the production, processing, storage, transport or marketing of food, agricultural commodities, wood and wood products or animal feedstuffs, or substances which may be administered to animals for the control of insects, arachnids or other pests in or on their bodies.
Their hooves are harder than horses ', and they show a natural resistance to disease and insects.
Louse ( plural: lice ) is the common name for members of over 3, 000 species of wingless insects of the order Phthiraptera ; three of which are classified as human disease agents.
Jeffrey Alan Lockwood finds that the biological warfare program at Ft. Detrick began to research the use of insects as disease vectors going back to World War II and also employed German and Japanese scientists after the war who had experimented on human subjects among POWs and concentration camp inmates.
Other pests and diseases include powdery mildew, viruses, slugs and snails, scale insects, aphids, earwigs and " green flower disease " ( usually caused by infection with a phytoplasma ).
An example is the development and increase in use of Bacillus thuringiensis, a bacterial disease of Lepidopterans and some other insects.
Fungi that cause disease in insects are known as entomopathogenic fungi, including at least fourteen species that attack aphids.
Beech bark disease is a fungal infection that attacks the tree through holes in the bark that are created by scale insects.
AFMC has the facility for animal house, hatcheries for disease producing insects, and a virology and bacteriology bank for these purposes.
It involves planting seedlings over an area of land where the forest has been harvested or damaged by fire or disease or insects.

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