Natural predators such as ladybirds and lacewings love to eat aphids, but they can be scarce. |
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Each spider was supplied with aphids, flies, plant hoppers, and parasitoid wasps. |
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The current threshold for late vegetative beans with actively increasing aphid populations is 250 aphids per plant. |
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Yet those little bumps are indeed insects, related to aphids, whiteflies, and jumping plant lice. |
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Pea aphids can be found at low levels but are expected to multiply rapidly in the warm weather. |
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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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In addition, oils disrupt feeding by insects such as flea beetles, whiteflies, and aphids without necessarily killing them. |
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Mealybugs, aphids and whiteflies also eliminate honeydew, creating ideal conditions for sooty mold. |
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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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Insecticides will kill the butterfly larvae as well as the aphids, so allow ladybugs time to eliminate them. |
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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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All lacewings, both as adults and larvae, prey on aphids and other soft-bodied insects. |
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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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They are multicolored Asian ladybugs or ladybird beetles, first introduced to the southern United States to control aphids. |
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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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Keep a close watch for pests, especially aphids and leafhoppers, which can spread diseases as they feed. |
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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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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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As a group, aphids attack a plant by sucking its fluids from tender new growth. |
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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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The gardener's friend, the busy little ladybird helps by eating aphids and greenfly. |
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Using an oil spray will get rid of aphids, lacebugs and spider mites quickly. |
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Among some pests to watch for are aphids, red spiders, leaf tiers, and rose chafers. |
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Other types of aphids, when present in large populations, can also damage tender asparagus fern and reduce yields in succeeding years. |
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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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Potatoes, particularly varieties grown for seed, are treated with insecticide to control attack from aphids. |
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Soybean aphids injure soybeans by removing plant sap with their needle-like mouthparts. |
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Spotted alfalfa aphids have been found in several newly seeded alfalfa fields in northeastern Nebraska. |
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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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But natural gardeners welcome such beneficials as ladybugs, lacewings and syrphids in their garden because they love to feast on aphids. |
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Both adults and larvae live on plants frequented by aphids, including roses, oleander, milkweed and broccoli. |
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For healthy apple trees, plant some nasturtiums and mint around the trunks to deter woolly aphids. |
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The endophytes make Turf Alive! lawns invulnerable to webworms, billbugs, armyworms, cutworms, aphids and some weevils. |
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Therefore, you do not want aphids to be blown from your red raspberries to your more susceptible black raspberries. |
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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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And it will zap aphids, borers and other destructive insects that eat flowers and leaves. |
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Japanese anemones are generally fungus and bug free, but aphids and snout beetles can sometimes be a problem. |
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The honeysuckle bushes, snowball bushes and elm trees always seem to have their share of aphids. |
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As adults, some soldier beetle species feed on nectar and pollen, while others are predators that hunt for aphids and other soft-bodied insects. |
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Biological control of aphids using neuropterous insect larvae was investigated. |
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For example, southernwood or wormwood planted around the border of the garden may discourage aphids from entering. |
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Induction deterred herbivory by noctuids and aphids, and increased the probability of plant survival. |
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Keep a watchful eye out for insect pests such a aphids, mealybugs and spider mites. |
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During the summer months, pea aphids reproduce parthenogenetically and viviparously. |
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Check winter vegetables, particularly sprouts, cabbage and broccoli for signs of black aphids. |
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Kales need little attention apart from controlling aphids and cabbage white butterfly and will grow well in most garden soils. |
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The cabbage white and its caterpillars are doing fine and aphids like greenfly are likely to benefit from warming. |
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The damsel bug, preys on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, jassids, caterpillars and moth and butterfly eggs. |
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I used to spray with hot peppers and garlic steeped in water, which seemed to not only repel furry critters but also aphids. |
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Eusocial aphids have an altruistic soldier caste that defends colonies from natural enemies. |
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Other tended homopterans consisted of a small colony of aphids feeding on P. tremuloides. |
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Formica rufa is an aggressive ant species that preys on a range of invertebrate insects as well as collecting honeydew produced by aphids. |
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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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Like aphids, they also excrete honeydew, attracting black sooty mold fungus. |
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These will encourage bees and hoverflies to visit, pollinating the flowers and controlling any aphids present. |
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The aphids can also host one of several bacterial symbionts known as secondary symbionts. |
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Members of the genus Asaphes are hyperparasitic on aphidiid wasps in aphids. |
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In that case, limiting hyperparasitism would be more important for successful biological control of aphids. |
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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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Monitor plants for bacteria, fungi, Colorado beetles, wireworms, leafhoppers, aphids, whiteflies, and flea beetles. |
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Big-eyed bugs appear to prefer the mobile pea aphids to the eggs of corn earworm even though the latter are more nutritious. |
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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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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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Nevertheless, keep an eye out for fuchsia gall mites, fuchsia rust, whiteflies, and aphids. |
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There are a few pests to watch for that like fuchsias such as spider mites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids, and fuchsia gall mites. |
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In the field experiments, generalist aphids and darkling beetles were the dominant herbivores. |
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One thousand caterpillars eating leaves might completely defoliate a tree in two weeks, whereas that same number of aphids would hardly be noted. |
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Homoptera were composed primarily of aphids and psyllids, including pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola, a pest of pears. |
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Spruce aphids are normally wingless, and feed gregariously on spruce or Douglas-fir foliage. |
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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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Giving plants the ability to withstand aphids is a better solution than killing the aphids, both entomologists said. |
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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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We caged either 100 or 200 pea aphids on a single lima bean plant with or without pods, with or without a single big-eyed bug, and with or without 20 corn earworm eggs. |
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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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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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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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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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After a spring feeding, the winged aphids move to a second host plant. |
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Soybean aphids are becoming more active, winged adults are being found with all stages of development on the infested leaves, so the stage is set for active development. |
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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 mixed in a gallon of water. |
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In the past we had sufficiently hard winters to keep the aphids and their viruses in check long enough to produce disease-free seed potatoes and soft-fruit plants. |
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Ladybirds are well known predators of greenflies and other aphids. |
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This is sooty mold that grows on the honeydew that aphids excrete. |
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From alfalfa weevil larvae and adults to army worms, cloverworms, cutworms, and alfalfa caterpillars to all sorts of aphids, some form of pest seems to be almost everywhere. |
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Eliminate small, red, juvenile leaf-footed bugs, but don't confuse these with assassin bugs, which help control aphids, tomato hornworms and other pests. |
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Termites tend fungus gardens, leaf cutter ants make underground compost heaps and many species of other ants tend and protect aphids for their honeydew. |
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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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Sap-sucking insects such as aphids carry viruses between plants. |
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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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These astonishing creatures squirt formic acid to defend themselves, farm aphids for honeydew, and make so much noise on a warm day that you can hear them marching. |
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Every frozen or fresh package of spinach can contain up to 50 aphids, mites, or thrips before the FDA labels it contaminated. |
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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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Useful insects include silkworms and ladybirds that predate upon aphids. |
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Pests particularly destructive to Norway spruce include gall aphids, white pine weevil, spider mites, Cytospora canker and Rhizosphaera needlecast. |
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The female beetle lays eggs only where she knows aphids are present. |
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Now ants have this relationship with aphids where they looks after aphids and move them around and eat the sweet sticky substance aphids secrete onto plant leaves. |
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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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If aphids, mites, scales, or other insects infest any of your houseplants, slip a plastic garment cover over the plant and spray with insecticidal soap. |
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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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Some pests for which such prognoses are made regularly are birdcherry aphids, frit flies and eyespot in cereals and sclerotinia disease in spring oilseeds. |
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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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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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The rose bush is flowering although it's still having a little trouble with aphids, which I used for target practise with my squirt gun yesterday. |
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I also did some watering, moved my ornamental brassica seedlings into the sun room and sprayed my pear tree with bug spray since it's covered in aphids. |
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Most heteroecious aphids have just one primary and one secondary host. |
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There are rose slugs on the roses and black, green or red aphids on everything else. |
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Therefore, it is possible greenhouse gases affect population dynamics of natural predators of scale insects similar to that seen in aphids. |
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To guard against aphids, cabbageworms, flea beetles, and other pests, lay floating row covers directly over seeded crops or plants. |
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Tiny flowers are perfect for attracting delicate beneficials like chalcid wasps and hover flies, whose larvae devour aphids. |
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Most true bugs, such as spittlebugs and aphids, use this tough mouthpart to pierce plants and drink their sap or other juices. |
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She tallied the eggs laid by female multicolored Asian ladybugs given plenty of aphids. |
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The worst of these are probably red spider mite and aphids For red spider mite vigilance is the key especially in greenhouses and conservatories. |
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White fly, spider mites and even aphids like heat and plant foliage that has developed soft and succulent under too-warm conditions. |
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There are a range of harmless predators available that will feed on pests such as red spider mites, whiteflies and aphids. |
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Check plants for early signs of infestation by insects such as aphids and spittlebugs. |
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They are larger and noisier than their relatives, the aphids, scale insects, leafhoppers, and spittlebugs. |
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However, locusts actually are a type of grasshopper, whereas cicadas are more closely related to tiny aphids, leafhoppers, and spittlebugs. |
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Simple estimation of intrinsic increase rates for aphids and tetranychid mites. |
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While the coffee perked, she flipped idly through a gardening magazine and scanned an article on the war against aphids. |
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Others feed on eggs of other insects, aphids, scale insects, or ant larvae. |
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Phylloxerans are similar to aphids but are without cornicles and hold their wings horizontally at rest. |
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Ironically, carnivorous plants are themselves susceptible to infestation by parasites such as aphids or mealybugs. |
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Because they are strong fliers and able to hover and inspect foliage for aphids, syrphids may be especially good at locating aphid colonies. |
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Circumstantial evidence suggests that heavy infestation by viruliferous aphids can overcome the highest degree of host plant resistance. |
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The project aims at characterizing and comparing food webs associated with aphids developing on 6 distinct ecosystems in native vs. |
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In some parts of the Northeast, woolly adelgid and aphids are serious pests. |
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Drake spent his life studying bugs, everything from aphids to water striders. |
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As trees grow, they are set upon by true bugs that feed on sap, such as aphids, among many other herbivorous insects. |
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Modules equipped with mesh greenhouses to protect crops from aphids, cycads, Tuta absolute, etc. |
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Before long Dutchman Antonie Leeuwenhoek became the first scientist to notice virgin births in female aphids or green flies. |
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A single lacewing devours between 1,000 and 10,000 aphids in its lifetime, while a ladybird larva can eat between 30 and 40 aphids a day. |
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The aphids are potential prey for a wide variety of natural enemies, including native and non-native species of lady beetles. |
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They knew that farmers had a problem with crop-eating pests called aphids and that ladybugs ate aphids. |
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The ladybugs ate aphids on various crops including alfalfa, clover, corn, cotton, potatoes and soybeans. |
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Thomas L and BI Murray Insect growth regulating effects of neem extract and azadirachtin on aphids. |
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Other insect herbivores found on turnip plants included aphids, several lepidopteran species, and other leaf beetles. |
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Spiders provide an around-the-clock security service that puts the clamps on leafhoppers, aphids, caterpillars, horseflies and ants. |
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Spray blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes with derris to protect from mites, aphids and sawfly. |
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Use in summer to control aphids, pear psylla, scale insects, mites, and eggs of some insects. |
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Green lacewings eat red spiders, aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, scale, and more. |
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Look carefully for mites, mealybugs, scales, and aphids, which can resemble plant parts. |
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You actually want pestiferous aphids, thrips and mealybugs to occasionally appear. |
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Target pests are aphids, caterpillars, green bugs and Mediterranean fruit flies. |
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To protect plants from aphids and cabbage worms, cover seedlings with floating row covers. |
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Control aphids with insecticidal soap, apply Bacillus thuringiensis at the first sign of cabbage worms, and bait for slugs. |
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Aphids are also known as ant cows because ants move the aphids eggs to their color to shield them predators and move them back to the plants in the spring. |
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If we can encourage this prey insect in greater numbers, it should boost the population of spiders and therefore provide better control of aphids. |
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House finches They consume aphids and other honeydew-secreting insects. |
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Deters wooly aphids, whiteflies, squash bug, and cucumber beetles. |
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It protects many fruit and vegetable crops against sucking insects like aphids, scales, mealy bugs, woolly aphids, whiteflies and certain thrips species. |
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Be on the lookout for aphids, mites, whiteflies and cabbageworms. |
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Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems. |
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Animals form another important part of the house sparrow's diet, chiefly insects, of which beetles, caterpillars, dipteran flies, and aphids are especially important. |
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Social behavior is widespread in invertebrates, including cockroaches, termites, aphids, thrips, ants, bees, Passalidae, Acari, spiders, and more. |
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The flycatchers will catch insects, moths, sawflies, beetles and aphids. |
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He added that dolichodal, iridomyrmecin, or similar compounds are found also in other insects, such as thrips, stick insects, aphids and rove beetles. |
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Viruliferous aphids were then transferred to healthy plants for 30 min. |
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Gardeners will learn about plants that can help eliminate chemicals and pesticides by, for example, recruiting ladybug larvae, which can eat between 30 to 40 aphids a day. |
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As for the aphids, they apparently need the bacteria to supplement their diet of plant sap, which lacks essential amino acids and other nitrogen-carrying compounds. |
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