Healthy trees are also better able to fend off insects.

健康的树种防御虫害的能力更加强大。

These new crops must also be more resistant to drought, heat, and pests.

这些新的作物还必须对干旱、高温和虫害有更强的抵抗力。

From too much water to too little, to pests, a lot can happen.

涝灾、旱灾，还有病虫害，存在各种不确定因素。

A healthy soil reduces disease and helps crops grow strong and healthy.

健康的土壤会减少病虫害 并且帮助农作物茁壮成长。

Many farmers welcomed them as a great way to stop crop disease and increase production.

多农民喜欢使用化肥。把化肥作为防治农作物病虫害和提高产量的重要手段。

This new funding brings the U.S. humanitarian response to the infestation to $19 million.

这笔新资金使美国对虫害的人道主义援助达到1900万美元。

Just thinking about a bug infestation is uncomfortable.

仅仅想到虫害就让人不舒服。

Agricultural biodiversity is the best hedge against future blights, including pests, diseases and climate change.

农作物生物多样性对未来可能发生的病虫害、气候变化等重大灾害最好的防卫 。

It is important to ask the garden center workers about pest-management practices.

询问园艺中心的工作人员有关虫害管理的做法重要的。

Each year, 40 percent of the potential harvest is lost to pest and disease.

每一年，有40%的潜在粮食产量都损失于虫害和疾病。

Pests and diseases can cause that. Sometimes the insects are malnourished.

虫害和疾病会导致养蜂人受损。有时营养不良也会导致这种情况。

So people began importing an Asian species called the harlequin ladybird as natural pest control.

因此人们开始引进一种称作“小丑瓢虫”的亚洲物种，以此作为控制自然虫害的手段。

In recent years, warnings of infestations in ponds and lakes have become routine.

近年来，池塘和湖泊的虫害警告已成为家常便饭。

And there may be threats from new pests or plant diseases.

而其他地区洪水不断。新的虫害或作物疾病也带来了威胁。

Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems.

在原始农业的条件下，农民少遇到虫害问题。

Another concern is about pest-resistant GMOs — that they can stop working over time.

另一个担忧抗虫害的转基因生物——它们可能会随着时间的推移而失效。

By 2012 the brothers had also taken over a local pest-control business, with both businesses operating out of Asbury Park, N.J. Keith is one of the brightest people I've ever known, says Connie Thanasoulis, who had worked with the brothers.

到2012年，兄弟俩还接管了地的一家虫害控制公司，两家公司都在新泽西州的阿斯伯里公园(Asbury Park)经营，“基思我所认识的最聪明的人之一，”曾与两兄弟共事的康妮·塔纳苏里斯(Connie Thanasoulis)说。

Helping to mitigate the presence of diseases and insects that can be found down in the lower elevations still in the tropics while providing a better environment to use modern construction materials and techniques in like concrete and asphalt.

这有助于减少热带地区低海拔地区的病虫害，同时也为使用混凝土和沥青等现代建筑材料和技术提供了更好的环境。

Crucially, the team got the same result in the case of uninfested plants that had been in uninterrupted hyphal contact with the infested one, but had had root contact blocked.

关键一点，有一个实验组也得出了同样的结果——该组植株未受虫害，也没有与感染植株切断菌丝联系，仅阻隔了根接触。

And with Paris hosting the 2024 Olympics in 297 days, city officials are on a mission to get this infestation under control before they welcome people from around the world.

巴黎将于297天后举办2024年奥运会，在迎接从世界各地到来的游客之前，市政官员们正在努力控制虫害。