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The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. Earlier sources treat Phylliidae as a much larger taxon, containing ...
Cannabis plants, like many others, biochemically synthesize terpenes with intense aromas as a method of chemical defense in attempts to repel predators, and invite pollinators. Because terpenes and terpenoids are biologically active molecules, it is possible variations in terpenes may elicit different biological and psychoactive responses in ...
Leaf miners are regarded as pests by many farmers and gardeners as they can cause damage to agricultural crops and garden plants, and can be difficult to control with insecticide sprays as they are protected inside the plant's leaves. Spraying the infected plants with spinosad, an organic insecticide, can control some leaf miners. Spinosad does ...
Besides removing the insects by hand or including trap plants to lure away bugs, you can bring in (native) ladybugs as well. A ladybug larva can eat 50 aphids a day. A ladybug larva can eat 50 ...
Oncopeltus fasciatus, known as the large milkweed bug, is a medium-sized hemipteran (true bug) of the family Lygaeidae. [2] It is distributed throughout North America , from Central America through Mexico and the Caribbean to southern areas in Canada . [ 2 ]
They can be generally referred to as phasmatodeans, phasmids, or ghost insects, with phasmids in the family Phylliidae called leaf insects, leaf-bugs, walking leaves, or bug leaves. The group's name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma , meaning an apparition or phantom , referring to their resemblance to vegetation while in fact ...
Pulchriphyllium bioculatum, [2] [1] Gray's leaf insect, [2] is a leaf insect of the family Phylliidae native to tropical Asia as well as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. [2] It was first described by George Robert Gray in 1832 and was the first phasmid he discovered. [3] Leaf insects have extremely flattened, irregularly shaped bodies ...
Melanospora cannabis (secondary on hemp canker) Rhizoctonia soreshin and root rot Rhizoctonia solani: Rust Aecidium cannabis Uredo kriegeriana Uromyces inconspicuus. Southern blight. Sclerotium root and stem rot Sclerotium rolfsii Athelia rolfsii [teleomorph] Stemphylium leaf and stem spot Stemphylium botryosum Pleospora tarda [teleomorph]