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Busseola fusca is a species of moth that is also known as the maize stalk borer. [1] [2] It is known from Ethiopia. The wingspan is 35–40 mm. Adults are pale brown. The caterpillars are light or dark violet to pinkish white and about 1 to 2 ½ cm. The caterpillars feed in the leaf hearts (leaf funnels) at the vegetative crop stage.
In one of the few cases where a cyberstalking conviction was obtained the cyberstalker was a woman, which is also much rarer that male cyberstalkers. [49] The conviction was overturned in on appeal in 2009 however. [50] In Florida, HB 479 was introduced in 2003 to ban cyberstalking. This was signed into law in October 2003. [51]
Unlike other crimes, which usually involve one act, stalking is a series of actions that occur over a period of time. Although stalking is illegal in most areas of the world, some of the actions that contribute to stalking may be legal, such as gathering information, calling someone on the phone, texting, sending gifts, emailing, or instant ...
Petiole (botany), a leaf stalk; Peduncle (botany), a stalk of an inflorescence or a solitary flower; Pedicel (botany), a stalk of a flower in an inflorescence; Plant stem, one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant; Pituitary stalk, a part of the brain
A polyp is an abnormal growth of tissue projecting from a mucous membrane.If it is attached to the surface by a narrow elongated stalk, it is said to be pedunculated; if it is attached without a stalk, it is said to be sessile.
Adders-tongues are so-called because the spore-bearing stalk is thought to resemble a snake's tongue. Each plant typically sends up a small, undivided leaf blade with netted venation, and the spore stalk forks from the leaf stalk, terminating in sporangia which are partially concealed within a structure with slit sides.
The field-dried leaves, stalk, and seed pod are then used in commercial manufacture of morphine or other poppy-alkaloid derived drugs, by first processing the material, separating the seeds, and then making concentrate of poppy straw [2] where no extraction using the traditional methods of latex extraction has been made. [3]
Flower heads are yellow and range in size from half to one inch in diameter; the florets are all of ray type. Sonchus fruits are single-seeded, dry and indehiscent . [ 11 ] Sow thistles are common roadside plants, and while native to Eurasia and tropical Africa , they are found almost worldwide in temperate regions.