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Cavelerius saccharivorus, also known as the oriental chinch bug, is a small Asian true bug in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [3] It feeds by sucking the sap out of the stems of grasses and grass-like plants, including rice plants and sugarcane. Cavelerius saccharivorus is notorious for the damage it wrought to sugarcane plantations ...
Blissus leucopterus. (Say, 1832) [1] Synonyms. Lygaeus leucopterus Say, 1832. Blissus leucopterus, also known as the true [clarification needed] chinch bug, is a small North American insect in the order Hemiptera and family Blissidae. [2] It is the most commonly encountered species of the genus Blissus, which are all known as chinch bugs.
Pachymerus decurtatus Herrich-Schaeffer, 1837. Micropterous adults mating. Ischnodemus sabuleti, also known as the European chinch bug, is a species of swarming true bug from the family Blissidae, which family also includes the American Chinch Bug Blissus leucopterus. It was first described by Carl Fredrik Fallén in 1826.
It is also resistant to damage caused by the western chinch bug. [51] "Legacy": Also known as 'NE86-61', this cultivar was developed by the University of Nebraska. [53] It is an all female selection that does not produce pollen. [54] It was released in 1997, but only available from growers starting in 2000. [47]
Chigger and mosquito bite symptoms. While chigger and mosquito bites both come with an itch, chigger bites take the prize: They cause intense itching that can last a week or more, while victims of ...
The term chinch bug can refer to a few different North American insects: Blissus insularis – the southern chinch bug. Blissus leucopterus – the true chinch bug. Nysius raphanus – the false chinch bug. All three species are in the order Hemiptera, making them true bugs. The entire genus Blissus of which there are 16 species in North America.
Beauveria bassiana is a fungus that grows naturally in soils throughout the world and acts as a parasite on various arthropod species, causing white muscardine disease; it thus belongs to the group of entomopathogenic fungi. It is used as a biological insecticide to control a number of pests, including termites, thrips, whiteflies, aphids and ...
Trombiculidae (/ trɒmbɪˈkjuːlɪdiː /), commonly referred to in North America as chiggers and in Britain as harvest mites, but also known as berry bugs, bush-mites, red bugs or scrub-itch mites, are a family of mites. [3] Chiggers are often confused with jiggers – a type of flea. Several species of Trombiculidae in their larva stage bite ...