scissor-shaped mouthparts to catch and suck the nutrients from their prey. Several lacewing species are effective pest controllers and are used in agriculture to manage pests such as aphids and ...

Virus-transmitting insects mostly feed on saps of the vascular bundle—either phloem or xylem —and have therefore developed specialized mouthparts, called stylets (Leybourne and Aradottir, 2022). To ...

As the aphid feeds, the virus can be picked up and carried in mouthparts and re-transmitted to healthy plants. Symptoms of Mosaic virus infections include the irregular development of young leaves ...

Q: After waiting for the “last storm” to materialize, I couldn’t stand it and decided to break out the garden hose and water my trees. While moving the hose from one tree to my piñon, I ...

A combination of methods, including a new method for tagging genes, demonstrates that the chemosensory co-receptors of Drosophila melanogaster (Orco, IR8a, IR25a, IR76b) are expressed widely and ...

The main production occurs in the spring and summer months. Acreage is significantly reduced in the fall when plants are damaged by aphid-transmitted viruses and silverleaf whitefly problems. Counties ...