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In addition to planting advice (you've got time), this week's garden column tackles several questions about managing pests.
The larval form is typically ... When scouting for soybean gall midge, it is unlikely that you will see adults in the field. If you do, you’ll find an insect resembling a slim-bodied fly with ...
Q We've let a plant take off in the back corner of our yard and we're unsure what it is (see reader's photo). Last year, we ...
The Ecology and Evolution of Gall-Forming Insects by United States Forest Service Publication date 1994 Topics Gall-inducing insects, Host plants, Tritophic interactions, Ecology, Evolution Publisher ...
Researchers led by Kenichiro Itami at the RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute (PRI) / RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource ...
Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...
Gall midges, belonging to the family Cecidomyiidae, are minute dipteran insects renowned for their capacity to induce gall formation on a wide range of host plants. These galls, which arise from ...
It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...
Nick Offerman Answers Woodworking Questions From Twitter ...
New fossil shows that precise wasp mimicry in hoverflies evolved far earlier than previously thought—and wasn't shaped by ...
Meiotic errors in oocytes cause egg aneuploidy. This study shows that kinetochores employ MPS1 kinase to promote timely ...