When the larvae hatch, she will feed them chewed-up caterpillars until they are ready to pupate. |
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Seasonally they dine on insects, especially caterpillars, beetles, and grasshoppers. |
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Dill and fennel are good plants for the caterpillars of the black swallowtail butterfly. |
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Monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on leaves of milkweed plants, which grow in and around cornfields. |
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He says that the caterpillars are ermine moths, which weave silk tents over bird cherry and other fruit trees. |
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Their nesting success will depend on whether there is a plentiful supply of tent caterpillars this year or not. |
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I've found that tent caterpillars and army webworms come into orchards in spotlike fashion. |
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After two to four weeks, caterpillars envelop themselves in jade-green chrysalises, where they stay for 10 to 14 days. |
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Then, over the course of several weeks, the children watched the caterpillars grow bigger, spin their chrysalises, and emerge as butterflies. |
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The leaves are high in vitamins A and C, preparing the caterpillars for the chrysalis. |
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She also carried on her research, collecting caterpillars on the Frisian heaths and moors and making notes and drawings. |
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Butterfly caterpillars produce calls that appear to play a role in maintaining symbiotic associations with ants. |
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One teacher thought the caterpillars might belong to silk ermine moths, but we're not sure. |
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Predator avoidance is a significant factor driving the evolutionary development of silver-spotted skipper caterpillars. |
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Knowledge that some larvae possess urticating structures should not generate undue fear of caterpillars. |
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We had a huge infestation of yellow woollybear caterpillars and green clover worm moths and am finding some fall armyworm moths. |
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The inhabitants of the forest area subsist on cassava, bananas, plantains, palm-nut-oil, forest caterpillars, and the leaf of a wild plant. |
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The strongest silk, however, is made by caterpillars that refuse to be domesticated. |
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The caterpillars that spin commercial silk can make much tougher or more elastic threads, depending on how fast they're forced to spin. |
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For example, many homeowners had gardens, which contained cabbage, broccoli, and other crops as host plants for cabbage white caterpillars. |
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These hairs retain their urticating properties long after the caterpillars have pupated. |
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While some scientists suspect Eastern tent caterpillars were the cause of MRLS, the exact cause of the disease remains unknown. |
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Wilted cherry leaves also attract eastern tent caterpillars, which were especially abundant in central Kentucky this spring. |
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It is a known fact that cuckoos' clutch sizes vary with the availability of tent caterpillars. |
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In broccoli and cauliflower, the damage is indirect because caterpillars eat the leaves and not the commercial flower head. |
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Fifth instar caterpillars pupate under rocks or in the litter beneath host plant patches in mid-June to mid-July. |
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The mason-wasp does not furnish the cell she has thus constructed with pollen and honey, like the solitary bees, but with living caterpillars. |
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Eastern tent caterpillars and wild black cherry trees are native to Central Kentucky. |
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Flying to several sites to deposit eggs is a strategy used by all moths and butterflies whose caterpillars must hide from predators. |
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Continue to check for cabbage-white butterfly caterpillars and remove, bag and bin any affected leaves. |
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The children compared one state of growth to another as the larvae became caterpillars, then butterflies. |
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About two to three weeks after the female butterfly lays her eggs on a plant, the larval caterpillars drop to the ground. |
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Some caterpillars will crawl to the ground and burrow into a hole, giving the parasitoids a safe refuge for the winter. |
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A cohort of caterpillars bands together to travel in a long column, looking to all the world like the dangerous body of a single, large snake. |
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In the tent caterpillars of eastern North America, for example, the larval stage lasts eight weeks. |
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He could have added that they also consumed mayfly larvae, caterpillars, beetles, and ants. |
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After caterpillars reach their full development they seek depression in the bark and curl up in a web spun from some secretion which they exude. |
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However, even in sparse numbers, butterfly caterpillars can damage ornamentals or food plants. |
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All are predatory, but the type of prey ranges from spiders to various dictyopterans or orthopteroids to caterpillars. |
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He glared forbiddingly, his eyebrows beetling together like two fuzzy caterpillars were mating on his forehead. |
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Not only had they appeared mysteriously, but the caterpillars vanished equally suddenly. |
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Birds should also be encouraged to feed on caterpillars, slugs and other pests. |
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When the eggs hatch, the young caterpillars first eat the eggs, then disperse on threads of silk. |
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He said it was up to the small-scale miners to organise themselves to hire machines like excavators, caterpillars, et cetera. |
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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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At each census the number of marked caterpillars still present and visible in each patch was recorded. |
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The caterpillars harness the plant toxins and use them as a natural defence against predation. |
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Milkweed provides food for monarch butterfly larvae and stinging nettles host caterpillars of the red admiral butterfly. |
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The ants probed the caterpillars much less often than they poked at mealworms. |
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There are at least seven chrysalises, dozens of caterpillars in all sizes and one egg. |
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If you see no monarch eggs, caterpillars or chrysalises, trim the plants back now and treat with jets of water or a little insecticidal soap. |
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After feeding, caterpillars pupate in a chrysalis, then transform into beautiful butterflies. |
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Today caterpillars and weevils feed on roots, stems, leaves, reproductive cones, and seeds of cycads. |
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Insects, especially beetles, caterpillars, moths, and flies, are the most common prey. |
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They collect twelve species of mushrooms, four types of termites, crickets, three types of grubs, and twelve species of caterpillars. |
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For the most part tachinid flies prey on caterpillars, including cutworms, gypsy moths, tent caterpillars, and the ever present cabbage looper. |
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The caterpillars, which mimic the larva of M. sabuleti, are carried into the nest by the workers, where they then feed on the ant larvae. |
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In future articles, we'll talk about plant chewing critters like beetles, caterpillars, borers, and the Leaf Cutter Bee. |
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Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation. |
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Look for pests such as caterpillars, flys, mites, termites and slugs are garden pests that might like to make a meal of your geraniums. |
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In the wild the long white caterpillars are often considered pests by beekeepers, because they feed on the hives' wax and honey. |
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To combat another common pest, tent caterpillars, use a forked branch to wind up the webs and expose the caterpillars to predators. |
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Fewer than 10 percent of monarch caterpillars make it to adulthood each year. |
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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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They are dying out because the wild flowers on which their caterpillars feed are being killed off by farmers, landowners and foresters. |
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Prior to metamorphosis, the caterpillars pack together and suspend themselves by the tips of their abdomens from the inner walls. |
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Most people's attitudes toward caterpillars are based on this sort of lowly image and range from distaste to indifference. |
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The velvet ant lays its eggs inside the body of living caterpillars, ants, bees and beetles. |
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We therefore amassed about 20 matchboxes and stuffed them with caterpillars, hiding them in nooks and crannies of our homes. |
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Later in the season, the caterpillars re-emerge to spin cocoons and overwinter under the loose bark of the trees. |
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Apples are the most susceptible crop as they can be attacked by caterpillars of the fruit tree tortrix moth. |
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Further caterpillars are added and the burrow sealed permanently before the egg hatches. |
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This consisted of picking off the mature caterpillars and feeding them to the hens, and a liberal application of derris powder. |
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These hatch into white and pale yellow caterpillars with black heads, black markings, and a black horn. |
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Mark's passion for peculiar pets started when he collected caterpillars, beetles and scorpions as a child. |
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Apple scab over-winters on fallen leaves, codling moth caterpillars live in fallen apples and pear midge grubs live in fallen fruitlets. |
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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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Tussock moth larvae that are not killed by parasitic wasps and predators turn into brightly marked caterpillars. |
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It won't discriminate between pest caterpillars and those of desirable moths and butterflies. |
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In answer to the implied question, potter wasp females stock these pots with paralyzed caterpillars. |
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The cudweeds were soon covered with dozens of painted lady caterpillars. |
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Butterfly larvae tend to be solitary, or sparsely distributed, whereas pest caterpillars, such as fall webworm, make tents and hatch in the hundreds. |
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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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Researchers said they could not be certain if the gypsy moth caterpillars caused fetal loss in the one mare or if she would have lost the pregnancy regardless of treatment. |
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So her mum used a bent oven tray to scoop up all the caterpillars. |
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At both sites where mortality was monitored, many emerging seedlings were killed in early spring by tortricid caterpillars, especially Clepsis melaleucana. |
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Ironically, Roland's work on alpine butterflies and tent caterpillars in patchy environments represents some of the best fieldwork to date on movement and scale. |
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Inside is rosewood luxury, downstairs bunks and beds, and under them, two six hundred horsepower caterpillars capable of pushing them across the sea at thirty-five knots. |
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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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These pests are almost certainly the caterpillars of the codling moth. |
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The Purbeck mason wasp is a large, red, black-and-yellow mason wasp which provisions its nest with the caterpillars of a tortricid moth which feeds on heathers. |
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This morning I discovered that my broccoli plants are still being chomped by caterpillars, so I devised a new method of control and blasted them all off with the hosepipe. |
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The caterpillars of the gypsy moth are destructive defoliators that feed primarily on oak trees causing growth loss, crown dieback, and tree mortality. |
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Meadow grass harbors the tiny caterpillars of ringlets and satyrs. |
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How can I tell when diamondback moth caterpillars are damaging my cabbage? |
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Best baits are redworms, which can be trundled down to the fish in a natural manner, or alternatively often-overlooked baits such as caterpillars, wax worms, or mealworms. |
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Then, healthy caterpillars ingest the occlusion bodies and release the virus when feeding on contaminated leaves, thus continuing the life cycle of infection and replication. |
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The polypod larvae, like the. caterpillars, have legs and pseudopods. |
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In a related study Clay and his colleagues will examine how the cicadas influence the ecological relationship between insect-eating birds and caterpillars. |
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Green pug moth caterpillars have been found in Oxford County this month, showing that they have spread beyond their original coastal distribution. |
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Children collect termite, snails, and the caterpillars of several insects. |
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The newly seeded alfalfa has plant bugs and potato leafhoppers and established alfalfa has army worms, alfalfa loopers, thistle caterpillars, and variegated cut worms. |
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For example, some moth caterpillars overwinter on exposed ridges. |
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We found that these pads, if placed too close to prickly pears infected by Cactoblastis, would soon be discovered by the moths and eaten by caterpillars. |
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The class learned about how caterpillars undergo metamorphosis to become butterflies. |
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The caterpillars, very active now, escaped from their muslin sleeve and were soon rollicking all over the furry upholstery, providing them with excellent camouflage. |
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Within a month of the outbreak, researchers from the University of Kentucky identified the Eastern tent caterpillars as a likely cause behind the syndrome. |
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These webworms behave a lot like thistle caterpillars in soybeans. |
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They seek food independently and prey mainly on insects, like butterfly caterpillars and pupae, ants, myriapodae, ground beetles. |
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Eating wild tobacco plants produces such noxious breath in hornworm caterpillars that predators reel backward and flee upon encountering it. |
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Scientists trained tobacco hornworm caterpillars in the lab to avoid a nail polish-like odour delivered in association with a mild shock. |
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Blackfly are attracted to nasturtiums, caterpillars often attack canary creeper and lilies are prone to lily beetle. |
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Its diet includes slugs, earthworms, beetles, caterpillars and other insects. |
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Acts as stomach and contact poison against caterpillars, leafhoppers, thrips, and squash bugs. |
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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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Many of these caterpillars have special glands that produce secretions which are very attractive to these ants. |
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Corvids demolish wire-worms in grain crops, and in root and tuber crops are happy to dine on snails and grubs, caterpillars and insects. |
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From Chinese apple orchards and lone trees, Pemberton gathered dry, mummified remains of ermine moth caterpillars. |
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The image was created by bird cherry ermine moth caterpillars, which experts say are doing no harm to the trees. |
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County moth recorder Tom Tams said the caterpillars were most likely the larval stage of some of the less common ermine moths. |
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The thought of the lovely Cinnabar moth and their attractive caterpillars losing their food source is so saddening. |
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At Neston he saw the caterpillars of oak eggar and drinker moths, while newly emerged cinnabar moths were on the seawall at Leasowe. |
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One version of the toxin protects against a range of caterpillars, including the European corn borer, the cotton bollworm and the beet armyworm. |
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Everybody knows butterflies adore buddleia, but the caterpillars of the red admiral love nettles. |
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He followed more than 1,200 caterpillars from the time they hatched, all the way through four molts and until they pupated. |
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Under a scanning electron microscope, the guts of caterpillars that ate enzyme-enhanced callus had many little rips. |
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Defensive regurgitation of allelochemicals derived from host cyanogenesis by eastern tent caterpillars. |
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You'll also see the world's largest, spikiest, hairiest and most camouflaged caterpillars and giant silkmoths. |
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The fires roasted nutritious Tarweed seeds, a fire-resistant plant similar to the sunflower, as well as grasshoppers and caterpillars. |
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Scientists used epidemiological studies to identify possible causes and blamed exposure to bristly, hairy eastern tent caterpillars. |
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Local plants have already had to deal with defoliation from forest tent caterpillars and gypsy moths. |
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Formica neogagates opportunistically feeds on a wide range of caterpillars, including gypsy moths and eastern tent caterpillars. |
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We noticed a few forest tent caterpillars this summer with no lasting harm to the bush. |
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It's a slippery and dangerous business trying to run a train up a grade greased with tent caterpillars. |
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Students can calculate results as the proportion of caterpillars depredated by birds. |
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Derris, which kills caterpillars, shouldn't be used near ponds as it can harm fish. |
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Specialists said the caterpillars are likely to be mopane worms, the larvae of emperor moths, which are commonly eaten in Africa. |
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Whatever the weather you can stroll through an exotic rainforest and also see some of the world's spikiest, hairiest caterpillars. |
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Tortrix moths returned to the list after a decade, causing grief with caterpillars that eat fruit and flowers, indoors and out. |
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The caterpillars of a number of moths such as the Dark Arches and Vapourer moths feed on the foliage. |
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Use PreGro to eliminate the threat of common pests and diseases, ranging from black spot to blight to cutworms and caterpillars. |
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By late May or early June, the fat, fully-grown caterpillars fall to the ground, where they spin a cocoon and pupate for six months. |
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A Pea moths spend the winter as caterpillars in the soil and then pupate in spring. |
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In a second set of boxes, fall webworm caterpillars, dietary generalists, were provided with oak, maple, and tulip tree. |
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Blackfly are attracted to nasturtiums, caterpillars often attack canary creeper, and lilies are prone to lily beetle. |
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The adults are seen from May to July and the caterpillars from July to September, when they pupate. |
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Insect prey includes chafers, dung and ground beetles, caterpillars, leatherjackets, and the nests of wasps and bumblebees. |
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It is voracious and eats woodlice, slugs, beetles, caterpillars, flies, earthworms and even small mice. |
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The dry wood of dead gorse stems provides food for the caterpillars of the concealer moth Batia lambdella. |
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Target pests are aphids, caterpillars, green bugs and Mediterranean fruit flies. |
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As caterpillars, Glanville fritillaries enter a stage of diapause, which is a period of suspended development, during the winter time. |
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As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary and the larvae of sawflies commonly are called caterpillars as well. |
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Some types of caterpillars are indeed poisonous or distasteful and their bright coloring is aposematic. |
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Others may mimic dangerous caterpillars or other animals while not being dangerous themselves. |
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Many caterpillars are cryptically colored and resemble the plants on which they feed. |
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An example of caterpillars that use camouflage for defence is the species Nemoria arizonaria. |
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If the caterpillars hatch in the spring and feed on oak catkins they appear green. |
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Other caterpillars acquire toxins from their host plants that render them unpalatable to most of their predators. |
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For instance, ornate moth caterpillars utilize pyrrolizidine alkaloids that they obtain from their food plants to deter predators. |
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In addition to being unaffected by the poison, the caterpillars sequester it in their body, making them highly toxic to predators. |
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Some caterpillars regurgitate acidic digestive juices at attacking enemies. |
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Many caterpillars display feeding behaviors which allow the caterpillar to remain hidden from potential predators. |
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Some caterpillars can evade predators by using a silk line and dropping off from branches when disturbed. |
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Paper wasps, including those in the genus Polistes and Polybia catch caterpillars to feed their young and themselves. |
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Silk is produced by several insects, but generally only the silk of moth caterpillars has been used for textile manufacturing. |
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After about 35 days and 4 moltings, the caterpillars are 10,000 times heavier than when hatched and are ready to begin spinning a cocoon. |
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A straw frame is placed over the tray of caterpillars, and each caterpillar begins spinning a cocoon by moving its head in a pattern. |
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The silk farmers then heat the cocoons to kill them, leaving some to metamorphose into moths to breed the next generation of caterpillars. |
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These microscopic parasitic eelworms can now help to reduce slugs, leatherjackets, vine weevils, caterpillars and ants. |
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Webworms are caterpillars that feed on a wide variety of woody plants while protected by webs. |
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When tested, both tent moth caterpillars and fall webworms strongly avoided extracts taken from the bodies of other dead caterpillars. |
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Much of the work in this field has focused on cases in which animals, such as baboons and woolly bear caterpillars, medicate themselves. |
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Jayne Yack at Carleton University in Ottawa revealed that walnut sphinx caterpillars could toot from their sides. |
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Besides other arthropods like caterpillars, sawflies, ants, and beetles, various spider families construct shelters on plants. |
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Larvae, primarily caterpillars and sawflies, were the largest prey items consumed by Wilson's Warblers. |
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Formica obscuripes, preys not only on caterpillars, but also on conifer sawfly larvae. |
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In letters from school he wrote about caterpillars and butterflies, and Buddicom recalls his keen interest in ornithology. |
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It sorts out carrot fly, cabbage root fly, leatherjackets, cutworms, onion fly, ants, caterpillars, sciarid fly, gooseberry sawfly, thrips and codling moth. |
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Yponomeuta Padella, or ermine moth caterpillars weave an intricate web over a roadside hawthorn hedge and speed sign in Catherington near Portsmouth yesterday. |
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Plants contain toxins which protect them from herbivores, but some caterpillars have evolved countermeasures which enable them to eat the leaves of such toxic plants. |
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In outdoor taste tests with 16 European robins, birds overall preferred uninfected wax moth caterpillars to ones that had been infected for at least three days. |
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The GM variety is designed to produce its own insecticide against the European corn borer, a destructive moth whose caterpillars feast on corn ears and stalks. |
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Specific insects targeted by CRYMAX include cabbage looper, European corn borer, beet armyworm, bagworm, tent caterpillars, cankerworms, gypsy moth, and tussock moth. |
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Other pests include gypsy moth caterpillars, gall midge, and scale. |
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Whatever the weather you can stroll through an exotic rainforest to enjoy the butteries here and also see some of the world's spikiest, hairiest caterpillars. |
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You can give the earth round the bushes a good soaking in a solution of Jeyes fluid and at the first sign of leaf damage use Derris dust to kill the surviving caterpillars. |
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But they rupture cell membranes in the midguts of caterpillars and other insect pests that chew on Bt-treated plants, causing them to starve and die. |
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Signs are extensive defoliation of trees, caterpillars with blue and red dots on their bodies feeding on leaves or on branches, and buff-colored egg masses on tree trunks. |
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Past episodes have affected tree foliage and the two main causal agents were the defoliating caterpillars of the leaf roller moth and the powdery mildew fungus. |
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A number of Lepidoptera caterpillars feed on pear tree leaves. |
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Some caterpillars obtain protection by associating themselves with ants. |
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Norway spruce cone scales are used as food by the caterpillars of the tortrix moth Cydia illutana, whereas Cydia duplicana feeds on the bark around injuries or canker. |
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The European pied flycatcher is one species that preys upon caterpillars. |
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The flycatcher typically finds caterpillars among oak foliage. |
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Even if a few tent caterpillars take up residence in the tree, birds, especially yellow-billed cuckoos, will forage for them and sometimes take care of the problem. |
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Plants evolve mechanisms of resistance to being eaten by caterpillars, including the evolution of chemical toxins and physical barriers such as hairs. |
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Many animals feed on caterpillars as they are rich in protein. |
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As a result, caterpillars have evolved various means of defense. |
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Last is the leaf-mining moth, whose caterpillars cause brown blotch mines on horse chestnuts as well as several acers or maples including sycamores and Norway maples. |
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Several kinds of wild silk, which are produced by caterpillars other than the mulberry silkworm, have been known and used in China, South Asia, and Europe since ancient times. |
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In the Caterpillar Room, some of the world's largest caterpillars are on show with cocoons, giant silkmoths and shining pupae hanging on the plants. |
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Also caterpillars represent a public health hazard because they have thousands of hairs which contain an urticating, allergenic or irritating protein called thaumetopoein. |
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The jumping beans are not galls, but seeds, with moth caterpillars inside. |
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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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Bacillus thuringiensis is now used to control gypsy moths, tent caterpillars, leaf rollers, canker worms, and other pests that attack garden plants, corn, and other crops. |
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