Sentences with phrase «green aphids»

Parasitic wasps, on the other hand, prefer to lay their eggs inside green aphids, perhaps because evolution has taught them that eggs laid in red aphids get eaten by ladybugs.

Symbiotic ants manipulate aphid reproduction rates to achieve a specific mix of green and red aphids, maintaining the inferior green aphids which produce the ants» favorite snack.

This might help both the red and green aphids survive and reproduce throughout more of the year, which could maximize long - term harvest of honey - dew from the green aphids.»

The body colour of Robichon's lab aphids is affected by environmental conditions, with the cold favouring green aphids, optimal conditions resulting in orange ones and white ones appearing when the population is large and faced with limited resources.

Not exact matches

Cherim is the founder of the Green Spot LTD, based in Nottingham, N.H., a wholesaler and distributor of biological pest controls — you know, «good» bugs like miniwasps and parasitic nematodes that devour «bad» bugs like aphids and fleas.

Green peach aphids can become numerous at any time, but are probably more prevalent during the summer.

Description: These aphids are usually light green and soft - bodied.

Symptoms: Aphids carry CMV and cause stunted plants with dull green foliage with a leathery appearance.

I've grown beans before, mostly to fix nitrogen in the soil: although I love fresh green beans, the aphids loved them, too, so I plant scarlet runner beans to go with this year's emerald dent corn.

Aphids belonging to one of these morphs — green and with a bulbous appearance — have a conventional mutualistic relationship with ants.

Hoverflies navigate unerringly across Europe for more than 100 kilometers per day, chowing down on aphids that suck the juice out of greening shoots.

The aphid species Macrosiphoniella yomogicola comes in two «morphs» with distinct colors: red and green.

In a field study, Losey found that the ladybugs eat more red aphids because these stand out against the green pea plant.

Recent data published in the international journal Comparative Cytogenetics by Mauro Mandrioli, Federica Zanasi and Gian Carlo Manicardi of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) clearly showed that populations of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae (one of the most dangerous pest crop insects in the world) may have unusual karyotypes due to chromosomal fragmentations and / or rearrangements also within the same individual.

Comparative analysis of genome sequences from four strains of the Buchnera aphidicola Mp endosymbion of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

The NIa - Pro protein of Turnip mosaic virus improves growth and reproduction of the aphid vector, Myzus persicae (green peach aphid)

You can spot aphid infestation as the green leaves start to curl and wither... repeat until no more aphids are seen... this might take a few days.