How To Use Aphid In A Sentence
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It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity.
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However, last year corn leaf aphids remained abundant in some field after tasseling, and the feeding appeared to cause death of the tissues fed upon.
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Unlike the more familiar and common pea aphid, relatively few spotted alfalfa aphids can significantly reduce the growth of alfalfa, particularly in new seedings.
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They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops.
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Communication of aphid attack between plants has recently been shown to involve other volatiles.
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He looked for evidence of wasp parasitism by counting the 'mummies'—the golden, hardened carcasses of aphids that had become homes for wasp larvae.
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Under the microscope the slide was found to be covered with a mass of raphides.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Aphids - these small bugs are green in the East, pink in the West, and can suck the life out of rosebuds and tender stems.
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Feeding on a milkweed leaf, tiny aphids (some winged, some wingless) are ‘tended’ by an ant, which feeds on the sweet honeydew excreted by the aphids.
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When we talk about pests in the garden, we generally mean things like aphids, caterpillars and rabbits that we can see and deal with appropriately.
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Also, four breeding lines of winter barley and three feed barleys set to be released within the next few years show resistance to both aphid biotypes.
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Certain aphids seem to prefer waxy leaves, whereas other species are repelled by them.
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These are larger than most aphids and, left unchecked, will rapidly form colonies that cause the plant to wilt.
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Armament underwing comprises a UV-16-57 rocket pod on the outer pylon and an inert AA-8 Aphid air-to-air missile on the inner pylon.
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Often found on herbaceous plants eating aphids.
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Most adult lacewings get their sustenance from pollen, nectar, and the honeydew produced by aphids and scales.
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Tie short pieces of old bamboo canes together to make a nest for ladybirds and place them next to the plants that are regularly attacked by aphids, such as roses.
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Studies of other aphid species have reported that pods are higher quality plant food than leaves.
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It is brown with cream spots and feeds on aphids.
The Sun
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This sounds like cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead foliage.
The Sun
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PPV is transmitted by aphids - small, teardrop-shaped insects with a sharp mouthpart called a stylet for sucking out plant sap.
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WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree?
The Sun
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These will encourage bees and hoverflies to visit, pollinating the flowers and controlling any aphids present.
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Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs.
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HOW do I get rid of woolly aphids covering my apple tree?
The Sun
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Aphids are well known for their production of honeydew, a sugary liquid excreted in great abundance by these sap-feeding insects.
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Yet those little bumps are indeed insects, related to aphids, whiteflies, and jumping plant lice.
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They are multicolored Asian ladybugs or ladybird beetles, first introduced to the southern United States to control aphids.
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Armament underwing comprises a UV-16-57 rocket pod on the outer pylon and an inert AA-8 Aphid air-to-air missile on the inner pylon.
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Both adults and larvae live on plants frequented by aphids, including roses, oleander, milkweed and broccoli.
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Martin Stufkens is predicting the lettuce aphid will travel interstate this summer.
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Keep a close watch for pests, especially aphids and leafhoppers, which can spread diseases as they feed.
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Induction deterred herbivory by noctuids and aphids, and increased the probability of plant survival.
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The discoveries may help thousands of wheat and barley growers envisioning a repeat of the original aphid's damage.
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Check for aphids and spray if 50 pc of ears are infested; use a selective aphicide such as Pirimicarb.
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/Biological control of aphids in small grains by parasitoid wasps.
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From this it will be seen that in this case the raphides did not separate from the mucilaginous juice to be held in suspension in the ether.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Inspect your plants regularly for insects such as aphids, thrips, whiteflies, and other noxious pests, whether indoors or outdoors.
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Poison sprays such as arsenate of lead are not eaten by this type of insect, and consequently are ineffective remedies for aphids.
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Liquid seaweed has been used to feed the plants and garlic is being used to deter aphids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Natural predators such as ladybirds and lacewings love to eat aphids, but they can be scarce.
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They dart among flowers and lay eggs among clusters of aphids, mealy bugs, mites, scale and other pests where their larvae can feed.
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Occasionally, calcium oxalate raphide or druse crystals were observed in this tissue.
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If aphids, thrips or other insects invade your rose bushes, you may be able to force them off with just a strong spray of water.
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What's special about the wasps, and what made them ideal for this study, is that individuals of one species can be raised to prefer one kind of aphid prey over all others.
Innovations-report
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Spray around the edges of the dead patches, as this is where the aphids will be feeding now.
The Sun
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For healthy apple trees, plant some nasturtiums and mint around the trunks to deter woolly aphids.
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As with the aphid controls, we rosarians have an arsenal of weapons with which to combat these pesky critters.
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An adult wasp will strongly prefer to lay her eggs in the same kind of aphid in which she herself grew up.
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Various parasites such as lice, ticks, mites, aphides and chiggers attack untreated and unprotected animals and plants.
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Maintain strict aphid control at all times, especially in late spring and early summer when aphid populations are highest.
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Improperly prepared taro may cause irritation to the gums and mucous membranes due to the presence of raphides (oxalate crystals).
Chapter 6
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A Your conifers are being attacked by cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead growth.
The Sun
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The parameter adaptive law is formed, we adjust the parameters to make sure the density of spruce aphides and their predator track the ideal trajectory, the stability of the system is guaranteed.
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The esters are lethal - almost immediately - to nearly all the mites and soft-bodied insects such as whiteflies, aphids, thrips, and pear psylla that they contact.
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Hormone titers and titer regulators have only been measured in two cricket species, and even these basic pieces of endocrine information are lacking in aphids and planthoppers, despite decades of study.
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Aphids, whiteflies, hornworms, and even field mice are more visible and more easily controlled when you don't have to battle them in a tangle of ground-hugging vines.
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It was strange the way the ants kept the aphids as domestic animals on the shrub, but this ant-farm arrangement, fascinating though it was, crudded and killed the leaves.
Beard
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Other insecticides have a narrower range of activity, such as dimethoate and Metasystox-R, which are toxic primarily to sucking pests such as aphids.
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It is brown with cream spots and feeds on aphids.
The Sun
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Four families of homopterans (aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers, and delphacid planthoppers), thrips, chrysomellid beetles, and among the acarines, the eriophyd mites, are important vectors of plant viruses and bacteria.
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Some of the aphid species that transmit viruses of sugar beet and mangold crops survive through the winter in clamps and multiply in the spring on the developing sprouts of mangolds.
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A foliar spray of a systemic or contact aphicide can be used to control aphids if the population exceeds the threshold.
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The ants may be observed stroking the aphides with their feelers, causing the aphides to excrete a sweet fluid on which the ant feeds.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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The little green insects so frequently seen on house-plants, are called aphis (plural aphides), plant-lice, or green-fly.
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Bug killer — Insecticidal soap kills most soft-bodied insects, such as pesky aphids, by dehydration.
How to use soap in the garden
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A Your conifers are being attacked by cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead growth.
The Sun
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This is sooty mold that grows on the honeydew that aphids excrete.
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Here's one for luck, a deadly nicotine tea used for the mass destruction of aphids by guerrilla gardeners.
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Search in the garden, orchard, and forest for plants attacked by aphides.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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These are cypress aphids, which cause brown patches of dead foliage.
The Sun
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Biological control programs targeted against the two groups of pests have had variable outcomes, with more success often achieved against coccids than against aphids.
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If fungal diseases or aphids do appear, the plants are simply sprayed with a combination of one tablespoon baking soda and one tablespoon dish soap (or insecticidal soap) mixed in a gallon of water.
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As the sun gets hotter they will become more abundant, and their larvae will do good work for gardeners by feeding on aphids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Preconditioned lady beetles will stay in your garden as long as the food supply lasts, eating aphids and laying eggs to produce larvae that also eat aphids.
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Keep a look out for aphids on tender young growth or on plants that are stressed and unhappy.
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To determine the effect of big-eyed bugs in the presence and absence of pods, on the seasonal dynamics of pea aphids, lepidopteran larvae, and other herbivores, we conducted a large, uncaged field experiment in plots of lima beans.
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Aphids are coming out and if you notice white fluffy stuff on your citrus it is highly likely it's a mealy bug.
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How do I deal with woolly aphids on my crab apple tree?
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Marigold Tagetes – this flower loves the sun and the summer and we used to plant it in the vegetable garden to keep away aphides and other bugs.
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Thrushes, ladybirds, dragonflies, spiders and hoverfly larvae will snack on aphids, snails and other pests, saving you time, work and money.
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In accordance to our laboratory studies, Bambawale et al. [35] observed no difference in cotton aphid abundance between Indian fields with Bt cotton (MECH 162) and its corresponding near isoline under integrated pest management.
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Eusocial aphids have an altruistic soldier caste that defends colonies from natural enemies.
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WHAT is the best way to control woolly aphids on a crab apple tree?
The Sun
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The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs.
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Spray around the edges of the dead patches, as this is where the aphids will be feeding now.
The Sun
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An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid.
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Each spider was supplied with aphids, flies, plant hoppers, and parasitoid wasps.
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The discovery of an aphid biotype that can overcome the gene means breeders and seed companies will need to keep pace with the pest.
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Useful insects include silkworms and ladybirds that predate upon aphids.
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Lacewings, White-banded clerid Robber files Feed on aphids and soft-bodied insects.
Chapter 7
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This sounds like cypress aphids - the brown being dead growth in the foliage caused by the insects feeding.
The Sun
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They are of great service to the farmer and gardener because their foods consists largely of plant-lice (aphides).
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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In many termite species, for example, soldier castes are highly developed, and colony members never leave their nests of dead wood because, like gall aphids and gall thrips, they are able to feed off the walls.
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Among the most destructive enemies of the apple orchard are the codling moth, various species of mites, the woolly aphid, the apple maggot, the red-banded leaf roller, and scale insects.
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An hour and there was a speck of yellow on the horizon as tiny as an aphid.
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Members of the genus Asaphes are hyperparasitic on aphidiid wasps in aphids.
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This is thanks to a designated Pioneer research team that evaluates aphid antibiosis and continues to improve aphid resistance in soybean varieties.
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Most heteroecious aphids have just one primary and one secondary host.
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The larvae then hatch and feast on aphids, eating about 300 each in their lifetime.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within the ground beetle family, a few eat seeds, a few concentrate near water, and some readily climb trees and consume arboreal insects, including aphids and forest tent caterpillars.
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Green lacewings, like ladybugs, diminish aphid and mealybug populations, as well as thrips.
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Beneficial predators: Insect allies that kill off pests like aphids.
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Farmers battled Terran immigrants like tarnished plant bugs, sawflies, wooly aphids, coddling moths, leafrollers, lesser apple worms, and the arch enemy: plum curculio.
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Armament underwing comprises a UV-16-57 rocket pod on the outer pylon and an inert AA-8 Aphid air-to-air missile on the inner pylon.
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Giving plants the ability to withstand aphids is a better solution than killing the aphids, both entomologists said.
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It feeds on aphids with a single-minded ferocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ladybirds are well known predators of greenflies and other aphids.
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Winged forms of the aphid can transmit the virus to healthy raspberries from nearby infected brambles.
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Vibrational communication among group members might also be expected in taxa such as many lepidopterans, some aphids, Neuroptera, tingid bugs, and ant-attended cicadellids and fulgoroids.
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Direct the attention of the pupils to the difference between the male and female aphides; the males have wings, but the females are wingless.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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After I have done all I can do, after I have been covered in water from hosing and smell of neem oil, after I have scrubbed the tanglefoot off my hands, after the DE has had a few days to do it's nasty work, and after enough time has passed to lull any remaining aphids into complacency, than, and only then, do I call in the Special Ops Unit.
Operation Garden Storm
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Most cultivars, particularly the dasheens, contain oxalic acid (0. 1-0.4 per cent fresh weight) mainly in the form of 'raphides', ie bunches of needle-shaped crystals of calcium oxalate embedded in the tissues.
Chapter 32
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Several other herbicides, including amitrole, barban, dicamba , and MCPA, alter aphid populations on treated hosts plants.
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From 1979-1988, this group concentrated its attentions on the homopterous pests of alfalfa, i.e., potato leafhopper, meadow spittlebug and the 3 aphid species, pea aphid, spotted alfalfa aphid, and blue alfalfa aphid.
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Saprophytic bacteria can readily make their way down the dead hypha of an invading fungus, or into the punctures made by insects, and Aphides have been credited with the bacterial infection of carnations, though more recent researches by Woods go to show the correctness of his conclusion that Aphides alone are responsible for the carnation disease.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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Protect your plants from damage caused by frost, wind, pests (aphids, hornworms, potato beetles, slugs, and snails), diseases (Fusarium wilt, early blight), animals, hungry or mischievous kids, and jealous neighbors.
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There is at least one example where PA accumulated by aphids from their host plant are in turn sequestered by the aphid's predator, ladybird beetles.
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In September obtain leaves of sweet-pea, apple, rose bush, maple, oak, turnip, etc., on which the insects are feeding; also provide specimens of woolly aphides on the bark of apple trees or stems of goldenrod or alder.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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Big-eyed bugs are omnivorous, generalist predators and their diverse range of prey species includes aphids and lepidopteran eggs.
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On the other hand, aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases, and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites.
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Suddenly, Jack's trees (four in total) are ravaged by aphids.
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Watch the action of ants which are found among the aphides.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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Effects of temperature elevation on a field population of '' Acyrthosiphon svalbardicum '' (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Spitsbergen.
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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Aphids, chafer beetles and boring insects find roses to their liking.
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As an example, birch trees always get leafminers, aphids and borers while red oaks rarely get significant pests.
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After a spring feeding, the winged aphids move to a second host plant.
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Able to reproduce both sexually and asexually, aphid populations can increase in size at exponential rates: when asexual females are pregnant, their embryos are also pregnant, so females can carry both their daughters and granddaughters, a condition called telescoping of generations.
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The female lacewing lays about 300 eggs, and each developing larva eats between 1000 and 10,000 aphids in its lifetime.
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The ants move the aphids to fresh parts of the plant, and they protect them from attack by other insects.
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February 23rd, 2010 WASHINGTON - Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the "mosquito" of the plant world.
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Gardeners like me because I eat aphids which damage their plants.
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Just as humans keep cows for their milk, certain ant species rear aphids and other insects in their nests and consume their secretions.
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A tiny golden drop appears from the aphid, and the honeydew - really aphid excrement - is swallowed by the second ant.
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Aphids, mealy bug and thrips cause deformity in new growth. Treat with a diluted pesticide or remove pests by hand. Never use a soap-based insecticide.
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New Aphid numbers are again high and are very visible on plants so a persistent aphicide will need to be applied for control of BYDV vectors.
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aphids are transmitters of plant diseases
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This sounds like cypress aphids.
The Sun
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They feed mostly on honeydew produced by aphids in the tops of trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barley yellow dwarf virus is transmitted by aphids.
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As in most species of balsaminoid Ericales, raphides are found in the septa of the locule wall.
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Some of the alders held overwintering white patches of woolly aphids on their gray stems.
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Soybean aphids injure soybeans by removing plant sap with their needle-like mouthparts.
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Liquid seaweed has been used to feed the plants and garlic is being used to deter aphids.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of these wasps are small enough to attack aphids or whiteflies, while others parasitize larger prey such as cabbage loopers, cutworms, and tomato hornworms.
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The insect families that scientists lump together as aphids belong to the huge order of true bugs, which typically deploy sucking mouthparts much like built-in soda straws.
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HOW can I control woolly aphids on my apple tree?
The Sun
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They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops.
The Sun
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Carefully observe the lady-birds that are frequently found where there are aphides.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study
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Important pests of eastern white pine include white pine weevil, various sawflies, bark and needle aphids, pine tube moth, white pine blister rust and white pine root decline, particularly on wet sites.
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Often found on herbaceous plants eating aphids.
Times, Sunday Times
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But for aphids living inside plant galls, the risk of getting stuck or even drowning in their own sticky waste is quite real.
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Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the "mosquito" of the
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Spotted alfalfa aphids have been found in several newly seeded alfalfa fields in northeastern Nebraska.
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This thesis is to study the insecticidal effect of PC to aphids and Plutella xylostlla.
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These flies do not bite or sting humans, and are considered beneficial, as they are predaceous on aphids and other insects.
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In seed crops, aphicide treatments should be applied as soon as key aphid species started appearing in the crop or in traps, said Dr Evans.
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Nicaraguan neem pesticides can effectively control aphids, lepidopterous pests and white fly.
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As a group, aphids attack a plant by sucking its fluids from tender new growth.
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The herdsmen of these aphidian cattle can be seen patrolling the shrubs on which the aphides are grazing.
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To this end, recently emerged males and females were allowed to pair, after which the female oviposited in several species of aphids.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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If aphids, thrips or other insects invade your rose bushes, you may be able to force them off with just a strong spray of water.
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Aphids are kept in check by beetle banks and shelter strips of willow to harbour natural predators.
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Aphids continue to feed on plants tissues until the Braconid larvae inside their bodies completely consume them.
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Onions repel aphids, rose chafer beetle and carrot flies, weevils, moles, fruit tree borers it controls rust flies and some nematodes and especially protects tomatoes against red spiders.
Organic Gardening: Companion Planting
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This aphid - including the new biotype - reproduces asexually, year-round.
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Gardeners like me because I eat aphids which damage their plants.
The Sun
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Overall, plants with many pods fostered high densities of big-eyed bugs, which adversely affected the densities of aphids and most other herbivorous insects.
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People living and working around Albion Place on Sidmouth Street complained to the town council that their properties were being badly affected by honeydew from aphids that colonise two hornbeam trees.
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To get rid of aphides apply a spray of some kind; an insecticide or an all purpose spray which contains a fungicide will do the trick and will also help to control diseases such as black spot and mildew.
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Last year, we had some heliopsis plants that became loaded with aphids," she said.
Sun Journal
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By changing the number of wasp species (one versus three) and whether each wasp species was a specialist (all of the individuals parasitizing just one kind of aphid) or a generalist (different individuals parasitizing different kinds of aphids), Finke and Snyder were able to separately test the effects of species number and resource use.
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Washington, Feb 23: Scientists from more than 10 nations took part in the sequencing and analysis of the genome of the pea aphid, which is considered as the
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The result was anarchy -- more imported vines and more imported aphids.
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Identifying a biotype that can overcome Rag1 and Rag2 resistance, even before soybean varieties with these resistance genes were deployed in production, suggests high variability in virulence within soybean aphid populations," said Curt Hill, U of I principal research specialist.
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If needed, used insecticidal soaps to disinfest hooli of taro root aphids before planting
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Aphids, cabbage loopers, flea beetles, leafhoppers and leaf miners are some of the insects that attack lettuce, but slug are the most notorious for loving lettuce.
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Even earwigs can be useful because they eat aphids, codling moth eggs and the red spider mite.
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How do I deal with woolly aphids on my crab apple tree?
Times, Sunday Times
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In passing under a tree infested with aphides the drops can be felt like a fine rain.
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Sticky traps for trapping and killing to have good result to the small insects, such as aphids, whitefly, Leafhopper, vegetable leaf miner, thrips, etc.
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The same pattern of asexual reproduction occurs in water fleas, aphids and even a few lizards.
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Any of several small insects of the genus Phylloxera that are related to aphids, especially P. vitifoliae, a widely distributed species very destructive to grape crops.
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Both larval and adult lacewings are predators, and are fond of aphids, scales, and other small homopteran insects.
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Jack needs to get rid of these pesky aphids and he needs the money to buy insecticide.
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I only mention in a cursory way the logarithmic spiral of the spider's web, the precise curves realized without instruments of any kind by the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera in cutting leaves, the stereometry of the aphides.
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The filtered ether was clear, entirely free from raphides, and had also lost every trace of its acridity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Rearing methods are being developed for green lacewings so that they may be used in biological control of aphids.
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These flies do not bite or sting humans, and are considered beneficial, as they are predacious on aphids and other insects.
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The possible causes of the formation of aphid host bio types were reviewed.
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Such meals exact a price, however: after chowing down on toxic aphids, spiders spin asymmetrical webs.
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He points out that all of the branches or groups technically called clades known to have primitively eusocial species—aculeate wasps, halictine and xylocopine bees, sponge-nesting shrimp, termopsid termites, colonial aphids and thrips, ambrosia beetles, and naked mole rats—rely on colonies that build and occupy defensible nests.
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Musicians are spods, and Paphides, as a spod supreme, can relate.
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The mulching of plants with these films prevents virus degeneration of the plants by virus-carrying aphides, and the mulching of the soil limits the increase of soil temperature in warm environments.
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Other species of ichneumon insert their eggs into the aphis, and into the larva of the aphidivorous fly: others into the bedeguar of rose trees, and the gall-nuts of oaks; whence those excrescences seem to be produced, as well as the hydatides in the frontal sinus of sheep and calves by the stimulus of the larvæ deposited in them.] [Footnote: _While fierce Libellula_, l.
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HOW can I control woolly aphids on my apple tree?
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Like mealy bugs, aphids excrete honeydew which gives leaf surfaces a shiny appearance and supports the formation of sooty mold.
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Larvae, often called "aphid lions,"are among the most efficient predators of aphids.
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From these experiments the absence of acridity in these two plants, in spite of the abundance of raphides, may readily be explained by the fact that the minute crystals are surrounded with and embedded in an insoluble mucilage, which prevents their free movement into the tongue and surface of the mouth, when portions of the plants are tasted.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
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Midwestern soybean growers were caught unprepared for a visit from a foreign aphid during the summer of 2000.
