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The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
Cyrtobagous salviniae is a species of weevil known as the salvinia weevil. It is used as an agent of biological pest control against the noxious aquatic plant giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta). The adult weevil is about 2 millimeters long. It is brown in color during its first few days of adult life and soon turns shiny black.
Salvinia or watermosses [1] is a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.The genus is named in honor of 17th-century Italian naturalist Anton Maria Salvini, and the generic name was first published in 1754 by French botanist Jean-François Séguier in Plantae Veronenses, a description of the plants found around Verona. [2]
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Salvinia minima is a species of aquatic, floating fern that grows on the surface of still waterways. [1] It is usually referred to as common salvinia or water spangles . Salvinia minima is native to South America, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies and was introduced to the United States in the 1920s–1930s. [ 2 ]
According to a report by the Public Policy Institute of California, in early 2023, 31.1% of residents were poor or near poor (with resources up to one and a half times the CPM poverty line), up ...
Salvinia oblongifolia is a species of plant in the Salviniaceae. [1] Its leaves can grow with up to 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, making it the largest species in the genus Salvinia [ 2 ] . Leaves are rectangular and approximately three times as long as wide with short blunt papillae that are arranged in double rows on the upper leaf surface ...
Salvinia stem-borer moths lay their eggs on water plants like Azolla caroliniana (water velvet), Pistia stratiotes (water lettuce), and Salvinia rotundifolia (water fern). [4] Larval feeding on host plants causes plant death, which makes S. multiplicalis a good candidate for biological control of weedy water plants like Salvinia molesta , an ...