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Anthonomus Eugenii
''Anthonomus eugenii'' is known as the pepper weevil. This beetle feeds and lays eggs on plants in the genus ''Capsicum'' and a few species in the genus '' Solanum''. ''A. eugenii'' is native to Mexico, however, it is an important pest of ''Capsicum'' in Florida, Puerto Rico, and Central America. Identification Adult ''A. eugenii'' are dark brown in colour with cream coloured scales covering their bodies. They are approximately 3 millimetres in length and have an oval-shaped body. ''A. eugenii'' have a curved rostrum, which is characteristic of the genus ''Anthonomus''. Female ''A. eugenii'' have a greater length between the antennae and mandibles on the rostrum, which is thought to aid in burrowing into host plants for oviposition. Distribution ''A. eugenii'' are predominately found throughout Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and the southernmost states of the United States of America. The northern range of ''A. eugenii'' is limited by cold temperatures and the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Charles Champion
George Charles Champion (29 April 1851 – 8 August 1927) was an English entomologist specialising in the study of beetles. He was born in Walworth, South London, and the eldest son of George Champion. Biography Encouraged by J. Platt-Barret, G. C. Champion began collecting beetles when he was 16. Champion's initial work was mainly in the Home Counties. Recognized as a serious coleopterist, he accepted a post as collector for Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin to work on ''Biologia Centrali-Americana''. Champion left England in February 1879 for Guatemala, where he arrived on 16 March into Puerto San José on the Pacific. He then commenced several years of journeying with intensive specimen collecting, until 7 April 1881 when he travelled by boat to Panama. On 20 April 1881 he left Panama City for Chiriqui Province, where he stayed journeying and collecting until early 1883 before traveling back towards Panama City on 18 March 1883, then visiting a few places before leavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthonomus Eugenii 2510021
''Anthonomus'' is a genus of weevils. This genus includes major agricultural pests such as the boll weevil, strawberry blossom weevil, and pepper weevil, as well as promising biological pest control agents such as ''Anthonomus santacruzi''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of the genus is still under revision. It is unclear whether '' Cnemocyllus'' should be a genus or a subgenus within ''Anthonomus''. Research suggests that the genus '' Hampea'' in the mallow family was the original host plant for the ''A. grandis'' species group. See also * List of Anthonomus species This is a list of 749 species in ''Anthonomus'', a genus of true weevils in the family Curculionidae. ''Anthonomus'' species * '' Anthonomus abdominalis'' Schenkling, S. & Marshall G.A.K., 1934 * '' Anthonomus accola'' Clark, 1990 * '' Anthonomus ... References * Curculioninae {{Curculioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vegetable Diseases
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the edible flower, flowers, fruits, edible plant stem, stems, leaf vegetable, leaves, list of root vegetables, roots, and list of edible seeds, seeds. An alternative definition of the term is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition. It may exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nut (fruit), nuts, and cereal grains, but include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as Pulse (legume), pulses. Originally, vegetables were collected from the wild by hunter-gatherers and entered cultivation in several parts of the world, probably during the period 10,000 BC to 7,000 BC, when a new History of agriculture, agricultural way of life developed. At first, plants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curculioninae
The beetle subfamily Curculioninae is part of the weevil family Curculionidae. It contains over 23,500 described species in 2,200 genera, and is therefore the largest weevil subfamily. Given that the beetle order (Coleoptera) contains about one-quarter of all known organisms, the Curculioninae represent one of the – if not ''the'' – most successful radiations of terrestrial Metazoa. Many weevils of this group are commonly known as flower weevils or acorn and nut weevils, after a food commonly eaten by Curculioninae larvae and imagines — the reproductive organs of plants. Systematics This large subfamily is divided into around 30 tribes. Delimitation of the Curculioninae is fairly robust considering its enormous size; there is some dispute, however, in their exact boundary with the Molytinae. The Phrynixini and Trypetidini are also included in the Curculioninae by some authors, but more often they are considered Molytinae; conversely, the Itini are usuall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biological Pest Control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, such as insects, mites, weeds, and plant diseases, using other organisms. It relies on predation, parasitism, herbivory, or other natural mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role. It can be an important component of integrated pest management (IPM) programs. There are three basic strategies for biological pest control: classical (importation), where a natural enemy of a pest is introduced in the hope of achieving control; inductive (augmentation), in which a large population of natural enemies are administered for quick pest control; and inoculative (conservation), in which measures are taken to maintain natural enemies through regular reestablishment. Natural enemies of insect pests, also known as biological control agents, include predators, parasitoids, pathogens, and competitors. Biological control agents of plant diseases are most often referred to as antagonists. Biologic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasitoid
In evolutionary ecology, a parasitoid is an organism that lives in close association with its host (biology), host at the host's expense, eventually resulting in the death of the host. Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionarily stable strategy, evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. Among parasitoids, strategies range from living inside the host (''endoparasitism''), allowing it to continue growing before emerging as an adult, to Paralysis, paralysing the host and living outside it (''ectoparasitism''). Hosts can include other parasitoids, resulting in hyperparasitism; in the case of oak galls, up to five levels of parasitism are possible. Some parasitoids Behavior-altering parasite, influence their host's behaviour in ways that favour the propagation of the parasitoid. Parasitoids are found in a variety of Taxon, taxa across the insect superorder Endopterygota, whose compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catolaccus Hunteri
''Catolaccus'' is a parasitic wasp genus in the family Pteromalidae. ''Catolaccus grandis'' has been used by cotton farmers in Texas to combat crop damage from the boll weevil. Species * '' Catolaccus aeneoviridis'' (Girault, 1911) * '' Catolaccus ater'' (Ratzeburg, 1852) * ''Catolaccus coleophorae'' Dzhanokmen, 1990 * ''Catolaccus crassiceps'' (Masi 1911) * ''Catolaccus cyaneus'' Girault, 1911 * ''Catolaccus cyanoideus'' Burks, 1954 * ''Catolaccus endonis'' Ishii, 1940 * ''Catolaccus fragariae'' Rohwer, 1934 * ''Catolaccus grandis'' (Burks 1954) * ''Catolaccus helice'' (Walker, 1843) * ''Catolaccus kansensis'' (Girault, 1917) * ''Catolaccus kumatshjovi'' Dzhanokmen, 1980 * ''Catolaccus pallipes'' Ashmead, 1894 * ''Catolaccus tepicensis'' Ashmead, 1895 * ''Catolaccus victoria ''Catolaccus'' is a parasitic wasp genus in the family Pteromalidae. ''Catolaccus grandis'' has been used by cotton farmers in Texas to combat crop damage from the boll weevil. Species * ''Catolaccu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthonomus Eugenii 1327148
''Anthonomus'' is a genus of weevils. This genus includes major agricultural pests such as the boll weevil, strawberry blossom weevil, and pepper weevil, as well as promising biological pest control agents such as ''Anthonomus santacruzi''. Taxonomy The taxonomy of the genus is still under revision. It is unclear whether '' Cnemocyllus'' should be a genus or a subgenus within ''Anthonomus''. Research suggests that the genus '' Hampea'' in the mallow family was the original host plant for the ''A. grandis'' species group. See also * List of Anthonomus species This is a list of 749 species in ''Anthonomus'', a genus of true weevils in the family Curculionidae. ''Anthonomus'' species * '' Anthonomus abdominalis'' Schenkling, S. & Marshall G.A.K., 1934 * '' Anthonomus accola'' Clark, 1990 * '' Anthonomus ... References * Curculioninae {{Curculioninae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pupa
A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their life cycle, the stages thereof being egg, larva, pupa, and imago. The processes of entering and completing the pupal stage are controlled by the insect's hormones, especially juvenile hormone, prothoracicotropic hormone, and ecdysone. The act of becoming a pupa is called pupation, and the act of emerging from the pupal case is called eclosion or emergence. The pupae of different groups of insects have different names such as ''chrysalis'' for the pupae of butterflies and ''tumbler'' for those of the mosquito family. Pupae may further be enclosed in other structures such as cocoons, nests, or shells. Position in life cycle The pupal stage follows the larval stage and precedes adulthood (''imago'') in insects with complete metamorphosi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seta
In biology, setae (singular seta ; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms. Animal setae Protostomes Annelid setae are stiff bristles present on the body. They help, for example, earthworms to attach to the surface and prevent backsliding during peristaltic motion. These hairs make it difficult to pull a worm straight from the ground. Setae in oligochaetes (a group including earthworms) are largely composed of chitin. They are classified according to the limb to which they are attached; for instance, notosetae are attached to notopodia; neurosetae to neuropodia. Crustaceans have mechano- and chemosensory setae. Setae are especially present on the mouthparts of crustaceans and can also be found on grooming limbs. In some cases, setae are modified into scale like structures. Setae on the legs of krill and other small crustaceans help them to gather phytoplankton. It captures them and allows th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instar
An instar (, from the Latin '' īnstar'', "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, between each moult (''ecdysis''), until sexual maturity is reached. Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or assume a new form. Differences between instars can often be seen in altered body proportions, colors, patterns, changes in the number of body segments or head width. After shedding their exoskeleton (moulting), the juvenile arthropods continue in their life cycle until they either pupate or moult again. The instar period of growth is fixed; however, in some insects, like the salvinia stem-borer moth, the number of instars depends on early larval nutrition. Some arthropods can continue to moult after sexual maturity, but the stages between these subsequent moults are generally not called instars. For most insect species, an ''instar'' is the developmental stage of the larval forms of holometabolous (complete metamorphism) or nymphal forms o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherlands , established_title2 = Act of Abjuration , established_date2 = 26 July 1581 , established_title3 = Peace of Münster , established_date3 = 30 January 1648 , established_title4 = Kingdom established , established_date4 = 16 March 1815 , established_title5 = Liberation Day (Netherlands), Liberation Day , established_date5 = 5 May 1945 , established_title6 = Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Kingdom Charter , established_date6 = 15 December 1954 , established_title7 = Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean reorganisation , established_date7 = 10 October 2010 , official_languages = Dutch language, Dutch , languages_type = Regional languages , languages_sub = yes , languages = , languages2_type = Reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
