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Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry Entomology Circular 303: 1-2. Foote RK, Blanc FL. 1963. The fruit flies or Tephritidae of California. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 7: 1-117. Phillips VT. 1946. The biology and identification of trypetid larvae (Diptera: Trypetidae).
Momordica charantia (commonly called bitter melon, cerassee, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear, karavila and many more names listed below) [1] is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit.
The yellow or orange flowers on a Cucurbita plant are of two types: female and male. The female flowers produce the fruit and the male flowers produce pollen. Many North and Central American species are visited by specialist bee pollinators, but other insects with more general feeding habits, such as honey bees, also visit.
The Cucurbitaceae (/ k j uː ˌ k ɜːr b ɪ ˈ t eɪ s iː ˌ iː /), [2] also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species [3] in 101 genera. [4] Those of most agricultural, commercial or nutritional value to humans include: [ citation needed ]
The fresh young gourd can be eaten like squash. The mature fruit is no longer edible, due to bitter compounds. Seeds may be eaten after being prepared by roasting or boiling. [18] The extractable oil content in whole seeds reaches from 24.3% [5] to 50%. [9] Linoleic acid, an essential polyunsaturated fatty acid, comprises 38% to 65% of the oil. [5]
Besides sugarcane, this planthopper has been found feeding on other host plants, and breeding on some of them. These include maize , sorghum , pearl millet , barley , bitter melon , okra , Vietnamese luffa , watermelon , squash , rice , wild oat , pea and Indian thorny bamboo .
Cucurbita digitata is a species of flowering plant in the squash family known by the common names fingerleaf gourd and bitter squash. It is similar to Cucurbita californica , Cucurbita cordata , Cucurbita cylindrata , and Cucurbita palmata and all these species hybridize readily. [ 2 ]
A herbivorous ladybeetle, it is a serious pest of cucurbits where both grubs and adults feed throughout the crop stages and results in skeletonising the leaves. [ citation needed ] The recorded host plants are Momordica charantia , Luffa aegyptiaca , Luffa acutangula , Trichosanthes dioica and Trichosanthes cucumerina . [ 3 ]