Garden Centipede (Noun)
Meaning
Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Crop rotation and soil solarization can help control the garden centipede population.
- The soil-dwelling garden centipede is an important pest in the production of strawberry fruits.
- Use of insecticides to control the garden centipede may have unintended effects on non-target organisms.
- In agricultural fields, the garden centipede tends to have a more detrimental impact on tubers.
- Diapausing garden centipedes remain in a state of torpor to conserve energy during the cold winter months.