What is "nematodes"

Usage examples of "nematodes".

Studies of these agents are proceeding, but the nematodes are likely to control only the largest termites such as Mastotermes.

Beneficial nematodes also have the potential to control subterranean termites.

In other countries, you can actually buy nematodes, but in Australia, we just have to be content with keeping our fingers crossed and breeding our own.

Things like cauliflower, lettuce, beetroot and spinach can be safely grown in soil where bulb nematodes are a problem.

Root-knot nematodes cause galls or bulbous swellings or small growths along the roots.

In about four to six weeks, this heat will cook out the nematodes, as well as many insect larvae and a significant amount of weed seeds.

Other plants said to discourage nematodes are dahlias, salvia, calendula, hairy indigo, velvet beans and garlic.

In nature, nematodes have plenty of enemies, including other cannibalistic nematodes and worm-catching, nematode-trapping fungi.

She pried up boulders and released a scattering of invertebrates: nematodes, mites, sowbugs, altered millipedes.