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The structure of the flower includes a number of wedge-shaped openings that function as an insect trap (hence its English name of "cruel plant"), without being a carnivorous plant, where it occasionally and inadvertently traps the pollinator's proboscis, leading to its death. When the foragers put their tongue in the flower, it is blocked by ...
A simple light trap A more complex moth trap. Entomologists primarily use light-based moth traps, which exploit the phototactic behavior of moths, attracting them to a light source. Moths navigate by using natural light sources such as the moon and stars, and artificial light sources can confuse and draw them in.
Pitcher plants: traps and ingests insects Radish: repels cabbage maggot and cucumber beetles [3] Rosemary: repels cabbage looper, carrot fly, cockroaches and mosquitoes, [12] slugs, snails, as well as the Mexican bean beetle [3] Russian sage: repels wasps Rue: repels cucumber and flea beetles Sarracenia pitcher plants
There is a large number of different flies that the arum plant attracts to its trap. One of the main flies that successfully pollinate for the plant is Psychoda flies also known as the drain flies. These small flies have a short holometabolous life cycle that’s completed within 21 to 27 days: egg, larval, pupal, and adult life.
Pancratium maritimum, or sea daffodil, is a species of bulbous plant native to both sides of the Mediterranean region and Black Sea from Portugal, Morocco and the Canary Islands east to Turkey, Syria, Israel and the Caucasus.. [2] [3] In the parts of its range on the south Bulgarian and north Turkish and Georgian coasts of Black Sea.
"Actinic" lights are a high-color-temperature blue light. They are also used in electric fly killers to attract flies. The center wavelength for most actinic light products is 420 nanometers, with longer wavelengths regarded as "royal blue" (450nm) to sky blue (470nm) and cyan (490nm) and shorter wavelengths regarded as "violet" (400nm) and ...
After setting up a test experiment which involved pairing species of Prodoxidae with different host plants, the results have shown that moths that were able to develop a pollination-type relationship with the new plant species were more successful and would better be able to reproduce than moths that were unable to do so. [4] [7]
The term 'Mexican jumping bean' usually refers to the seeds that have been attacked by moth larvae, but the entire plant is also called a 'Mexican jumping bean.' [5] [4] [9] It was difficult to determine the species of plant responsible for the novelty item at first, as the C. saltitans larva leaves the seed sterile. [8]