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A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, which protrudes from a rotating spindle at the end of a long shaft topped by a gasoline ...
Andreas Stihl designed and hand built his first chainsaw in 1926. [5] The saw was electrically powered, and weighed about 48 kg (106 lb). [6] Stihl grew slowly initially, as the chainsaws came to the market about the same time as the Great Depression; with manpower cheap, and old two-man saws proven, there was no need for power saws.
The serpentine leaf miner is the larva of a fly, Liriomyza brassicae, in the family Agromyzidae, the leaf miner flies. It mines wild and cultivated plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Chinese broccoli. [4] [5] It is distributed in the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. [6] The life cycle of the fly is up to 21 days.
Disease Cycle: The disease is spread by Xiphinema index a dagger nematode. The typical life cycle of Xiphinema index nematode goes through 6 life cycle stages. The females lay the eggs into the soil. Once the juveniles hatch from the egg they go through 4 molting stages where they get bigger after each molt.
A popular myth holds that the show was financed by selling baseball's Boston Red Sox superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the "Curse of the Bambino." [ 1 ] However, it was Mandel's original play, My Lady Friends , rather than No, No, Nanette , that was directly financed by the Ruth sale.
Her escape also reignited publicity surrounding her case, and she became something of a folk hero. A song was written about her, and T-shirts were sold with the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run". [33] While on the run, Bembenek used the name "Jennifer Gazzana" and got a job working as a waitress. The couple evaded capture for three months. [34]
Beet leafhoppers are polyphagous generalists which means that they are able to feed on various different types of host (biology) plants. [2] The fact that these insects migrate during the spring and summer time to cultivated fields also means that they show a lot of variation in their host plant choices by season: feeding on desert weeds in the winter and feeding on cultivated fields in the ...
Rhopalosiphum maidis (corn leaf aphids) on Zea mays (maize) Under enhanced CO 2 conditions, the growth rate and reproduction of R. maidis on barley were significantly decreased. [ 14 ] Volatiles of barley grown under enhanced CO 2 were also less attractive than those from plants grown under atmospheric CO 2 . [ 15 ]