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Honeydew melon, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Honeydew melon flower. The honeydew melon is one of the two main cultivar types in Cucumis melo Inodorus Group. [3] It is characterized by the smooth, often green or yellowish rind and lack of musky odor. The other main type in the Inodorus Group is the wrinkle-rind casaba melon. [4]
Honeydew may refer to: Honeydew (melon), a cultivar group of melon; Honeydew (secretion), a sugar-rich sticky substance secreted by various animals; Honeydew moth (Cryptoblabes gnidiella), a moth of Southern and Middle America; Honeydew, California, United States, a town; Honeydew, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
The purple-rumped sunbird is a common resident breeder in southern India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.It is found in Gujarat to the west [4] (possibly a recent expansion [5]) and extending into Assam (Hailakandi [6]) or Meghalaya [2] in the east.
The first stage of ergot infection manifests itself as a white soft tissue (known as sphacelia) producing sugary honeydew, which often drops out of the infected grass florets. This honeydew contains millions of asexual spores , which insects disperse to other florets. Later, the sphacelia convert into a hard dry sclerotium inside the husk of ...
This is a list of honeydew sources. Honeydew is a sugary excretion from plant sap sucking insects such as aphids or scales . There are many trees that are hosts to aphids and scale insects that produce honeydew
The psyllids make these bell lerps from their own honeydew secretions in order to protect themselves from predators and the environment. Bell miners live in large, complex, social groups. Within each group, there are subgroups consisting of several breeding pairs, but also including a number of birds that are not currently breeding.
Caterpillars of many species have a gland on the seventh abdominal segment that produces honeydew and is called the "dorsal nectary gland" (also called "Newcomer's gland"). An eversible organ called the "tentacular organ" is present on the eighth abdominal segment and this is cylindrical and topped with a ring of spikes and emits chemical ...
Ants eat honeydew, and in return protect the scale insects from their enemies and spread them among trees, an example of mutualism. The honeydew not eaten by the ants drips onto the trees and encourages the growth of sooty mold over the leaves and stems. This gives plants an ugly black appearance and reduces their health and vigor.