"Some people think very much of turnips, parsnips and rutabagas as food, but many insects like them even less. Dr. E. P. Lichtenstein and his co-workers... have isolated materials from all three vegetables that can kill a number of insect pests, including vinegar flies, Mexican bean beatles, mosquito larvae, houseflies and mites. There is also strong evidence that the roots of cabbages, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, kale, mustard and kohlrabi have this same built-in protection against the insect world, says Dr. Lichtenstein."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
John F. Henahan, Men and Molecules (1966)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Insect
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Insect
66 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Insect →
Related Quotes
"When I behold what pleasure is Pursuit, What life, what glorious eagerness it is, Then mark how full Possession falls…"
"The mortal enemies of man are not his fellows of another continent or race; they are the aspects of the physical worl…"
"The individual human being, as such, does not—cannot—have any volition. ...the human being is not an autonomous entit…"
"Laws, as we read in ancient sages, Have been like cobwebs in all ages: Cobwebs for little flies are spread, And laws …"
"Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! […] By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the pape…"
"Human beings suffer from a 'centralized mindset'; they would like to assign the coordination of activities to a centr…"
"The most amazing thing about social insect colonies is that there's no individual in charge. If you look at a single …"
"I don't know but you have spoken too highly of Gibbon's book; the Dean of Derry, who is our Club as well as Gibbon, t…"
"The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible …"
"Swarm Intelligence can be defined more precisely as: Any attempt to design algorithms or distributed problem-solving …"