Homoptera

How To Use Homoptera In A Sentence

• Both larval and adult lacewings are predators, and are fond of aphids, scales, and other small homopteran insects.
• This IGR acts by inhibiting chitin formation specifically in homopteran pests. Chapter 7
• More than half of the arthropods were spiders, followed by coleopterans, orthopterans, and homopterans.
• Arculus: Odonata; a small cross vein between radius and cubitus near the base, leaving an elongate triangle between them: Trichoptera; a point, often hyaline, on the forewing where the cubitus (or post cubitus) runs into the margin: in Homoptera; a cross-veinlet nearly reaching posterior margin at same point as in Trichoptera: in other orders applied to a cross-vein in similar position, apparently giving rise to the median. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
• Homoptera were composed primarily of aphids and psyllids, including pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola, a pest of pears.
• One of the first field experiments to detect adaptive population structure was conducted with Nuculaspis californica, a highly sessile homopteran scale insect that displayed local adaptation to individual ponderosa pine trees.
• The polymorphism is common in many insect groups, most notably the Hemiptera / Homoptera (waterstriders, planthoppers and aphids), Coleoptera and, Orthoptera (crickets and grasshoppers).
• Other tended homopterans consisted of a small colony of aphids feeding on P. tremuloides (aphids were removed prior to the experiment).
• More than half of the arthropods were spiders, followed by coleopterans, orthopterans, and homopterans.
• Reproduction is bisexual among the homopterans, although asexual reproduction occurs in the aphids.