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Lamb's quarters—leaves and shoots, raw, also prevents erosion, also distracts leaf miners from nearby crops. Nettle—young leaves collected before flowering used as a tea or spinach substitute. Plants have use as compost material or for fibre. Purslane—prepared raw for salads or sautéed.
Cannabis plants, like many others, biochemically synthesize terpenes with intense aromas as a method of chemical defense in attempts to repel predators, and invite pollinators. Because terpenes and terpenoids are biologically active molecules, it is possible variations in terpenes may elicit different biological and psychoactive responses in ...
Crow garlic, like any Allium, masks scents from pest insects, protecting neighboring plants [citation needed]. Many weeds protect nearby plants from pest insects.Some beneficial weeds release volatile organic compounds that mask the scents of nearby plants, as with alliums and wormwood; others imitate the pheromones of pest insects and confuse them, as with ground ivy, oregano, and other mints.
Beneficial insects (sometimes called beneficial bugs) are any of a number of species of insects that perform valued services like pollination and pest control. The concept of beneficial is subjective and only arises in light of desired outcomes from a human perspective.
Honeydew drops on leaves Bald-faced hornet sips honeydew from a Disholcaspis quercusmamma gall covered by sooty mold Magicicada cassini "cicada rain" slow motion. Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap.
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
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Canna leaf roller refers to two different Lepidoptera species that are pests of cultivated cannas. Caterpillars of the Brazilian skipper butterfly ( Calpodes ethlius ), also known as the larger canna leaf roller, cut the leaves and roll them over to live inside while pupating and eating the leaf. [ 1 ]