Sentences with phrase «armyworm caterpillars»

In a paper published today (July 10) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers have shown that a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant's protections can encourage beet armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera exigua) to cannibalize other caterpillars.

Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse of insecticides.

For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.

For the experiment, researchers used bell pepper and soybean plants, beet armyworm caterpillars, and honeybees.

For its latest work, Tumlinson's team knew that corn plants release a potent wasp attractant — a blend of terpenoids and indole — when under attack from the beet armyworm caterpillar.

Not exact matches

Caterpillars of the fall armyworm and two other Spodoptera species deploy a gut enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of a sugar to the toxic free DIMBOA.