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Cavelerius saccharivorus, also known as the oriental chinch bug, is a small Asian true bug in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [3] It feeds by sucking the sap out of the stems of grasses and grass-like plants, including rice plants and sugarcane. Cavelerius saccharivorus is notorious for the damage it wrought to sugarcane plantations ...
Blissus leucopterus. (Say, 1832) [1] Synonyms. Lygaeus leucopterus Say, 1832. Blissus leucopterus, also known as the true [clarification needed] chinch bug, is a small North American insect in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [2] It is the most commonly encountered species of the genus Blissus, which are all known as chinch bugs.
The term chinch bug can refer to a few different North American insects: Blissus insularis – the southern chinch bug. Blissus leucopterus – the true chinch bug. Nysius raphanus – the false chinch bug. All three species are in the order Hemiptera, making them true bugs. The entire genus Blissus of which there are 16 species in North America.
Apply in the early morning or late afternoon, and water the products into your lawn. Use insecticides for prevention and control. When you see June bug activity in the spring, you can make a ...
Western conifer seed bug in Kanagawa, Japan. The western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis), sometimes abbreviated as WCSB, is a species of true bug (Hemiptera) in the family Coreidae. It is native to North America west of the Rocky Mountains (California to British Columbia, east to Idaho Minnesota and Nevada) but has in recent times ...
Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi. It is used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests, including termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and ...
Casiostega dactyloides (Nutt.) E.Fourn. (1876) Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a short grass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie.
Grass seeds look like small arrowheads, and can attach themselves to a dog’s fur and burrow into the skin, causing pain and discomfort. Paws and ears are most often affected, but they can go up ...