Sentences with phrase «of aphids»

«Now we know that all the wasps of the genus Acanthocaudus are specialists on different species of aphids on different host plants,» Johnson said.

The biggest garden villain is Aphids: Best way my grandad told me to deal with these is to wash off as much of the aphids as you can... and let the plant dry.

The density of aphids was reduced due to higher mortality caused by increased numbers of predators feeding on aphids41.

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«Unprecedented Dr - Jekyll - and - Mr - Hyde type of behaviour of aphids towards ants discovered.»

Citrus farmers have required increasing quantities of pesticides to cope with rising numbers of aphids, scale insects and other pests that the Argentines actively protect in exchange for the sweet honeydew they produce.

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

Populations of some aphids, caterpillars, mites, and other invertebrates are sometimes drastically reduced by naturally occurring pathogens, usually under conditions such as prolonged high humidity or dense pest populations.

Reflective mulches also drastically reduced aphid infestations in peppers, thus lowering the incidents of aphid - transmitted viruses, such as tobacco etch.

Speaking of aphids, teach them to identify pests and you've got a major helper!

By the second week in August, nearly 98 percent of the aphids had been parasitized by wasps.

«When the larvae become adults, they chew a hole and pop out of the aphids,» Johnson said.

This photo of a cup plant flower teaming with insects led entomologists to investigate the pollinator wasp diversity support potential of the plant and the role of aphids and parasitic wasps.

«The romantic image of ants taking care of their aphid cattle, although very widespread, is just a small part of a story that evolution enriches in different ways.

Consequently, after the dissemination of this research, «the typical description of aphids as sap - sucking insects and, therefore, strictly herbivorous, should be nuanced,» according to David Martínez.

However, after more than 50 hours of recording different anthills through a microscopy, this research has revealed that a certain species of aphids produces individuals which are adopted in the ant's brood chamber and they end up being aggressive to them by sucking haemolymph from their larvae.

«Our work describes for the first time that, along with the classical mutualist relationship between both insects, there exists an aggressive mimicry of aphids towards ants,» explains Genetics professor David Martínez Torres, director of the study whose results were published in PNAS, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.

The insects consume billions of aphids that otherwise would have feasted on agricultural crops.

The biggest yearly mass movements of land animals may be the largely overlooked flights of aphids, moths, beetles, flies, spiders and their kin.

The researchers think that the protein might occlude the narrow food canal of the aphid.

He didn't fare much better at cultivating European grapes there either, given their susceptibility to black rot and the insect phylloxera, a relative of the aphid.

Hundreds of aphids can live in one gall, creating enough excreted honeydew to doom them all.

On the other hand, these two closely related species of aphid do not necessarily feed on the same plants.

These observations, carried out at an extraordinary level of detail, made it possible to establish the interactions between one hundred or so species situated on four trophic levels: plants (23 species), aphids that feed on these plants (25 species), wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of the aphids (22 species), and other wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of the preceding wasps inside aphids (26 species).

«Energy production seems to be the least of an aphid's problems — their diet is loaded with excessive sugar, most of which they can not use,» she says.

The biology of aphids is bizarre: they can be born pregnant and males sometimes lack mouths, causing them to die not long after mating.

This is a pivotal consequence of life with symbionts, said Shapira, who believes that microbiotas, which involve many types of symbionts, represent an expanded version of this aphid - symbiont relationship.

Researchers have argued that the colors are nothing more than a quirky side effect of evolution, with no real significance for the bugs themselves, but John Losey, an entomologist at Cornell, has found that the two main predators of aphids — ladybugs and a type of parasitic wasp — actually maintain the bicolored aphid population.

In the case of Aphids, also known as plant lice, individuals die if you take away their bacteria.

In a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Hasegawa and his students, including Saori Watanabe, investigated how population growth of aphid morphs differs with or without the presence of ants.

Plants were able to «warn» other plants of Aphid infestations allowing uninfected plants a chance to mount defenses.

In a Swiss organic orchard, it was found that the strip management favoured beneficial insects and spiders, which reduced the density of aphids.

Here are the 8 best natural ways to get rid of aphids and save all your delicious veggies and beautiful flowers.

In mid summer aphids feed on the flowering shoots; the number of aphids was significantly suppressed under the light treatment in mid-August due to the limited amount of food available.

In some regions, drought has been shown to encourage the reproduction of aphids and locusts, as well as several types of mold, that can hide inside many leafy crops.

Going up the food chain, the scientists observed that there was little chance that the most closely related wasps feed on the same species of aphid.

The researchers have shown that two closely related species of aphid, for example, are generally the prey of the same species of wasp.

Researchers examining the genes of different species of aphids and of their individual gut bacteria found that the emergence of new species of aphids during evolution was mirrored by speciation events in the insects» Buchnera symbionts.

«Types of food include the bodies of insects, leaves, sugar water, and the «honeydew» of aphids.