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• It features unique footage of one of the world's smallest insects, a chalcid wasp known as a fairyfly.
• The chalcid wasps that develop in fig tree inflorescences have often been used to study alternative reproductive behaviors.
• When infestations of scale insects in orchards are fought with DDT and dieldrin, chalcid and braconid wasps that parasitize scales are destroyed, and population outbreaks of scale result. 26 Another problem with synthetic chemical controls is that some can take a very long time to break down, remaining toxic for many years. 5. How plants live and grow
• Temperature treatment of Douglas Fir seeds to control the seed chalcid Megastigmus spermotrophus Wachtl Xml's Blinklist.com
• About a fifth of the infested seedpods also contained the larvae of a small chalcid wasp, Spintherus leguminium, parasitic on the hapless weevils. Wildwood
• Olynthus: Greek city on the Chalcidic peninsula to the east of Macedonia destroyed by Philip in 348 after it intrigued with Athens against him. Alexander the Great
• Notable reptiles include the chalcid skink (Chalcides ocellatus), gray monitor (Varanus griseus), snakes (Oligodon taeniolatus, Lycodon striatus, Coluber spinalis), and the Central Asian cobra (Naja oxiana). Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
• Many guests were plodding along with the ants, mostly staphylinids of which we secured five species, a brown histerid beetle, a tiny chalcid, and several Phorid flies, one of which was winged. Edge of the Jungle
• Chalcidicè, was in the neighbourhood of Sicyon and Corinth at the time. The History of the Peloponnesian War
• We identified a high level of mortality to stem beetles due to the attack of the chalcid.