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  2. Phaseolus coccineus - Wikipedia

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    Phaseolus coccineus, known as runner bean, [2] scarlet runner bean, [2] or multiflora bean, [2] is a plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. Another common name is butter bean , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which, however, can also refer to the lima bean , a different species.

  3. List of companion plants - Wikipedia

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    Tomatoes, [80] fava beans: Used by farmers to reduce cotton pests, a good crop to improve soil; fixes nitrogen. Alfalfa has some allelopathic effects to tomato seedlings. [80] Peanut: Arachis hypogaea: Beans, corn, cucumber, eggplant, lettuce, marigold, melon and sunflower: Peanuts encourage growth of corn and squash [88] Walnut tree: Juglans spp.

  4. Black bean aphid - Wikipedia

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    The black bean aphid is a major pest of sugar beet, bean, and celery crops, with large numbers of aphids cause stunting of the plants. Beans suffer damage to flowers and pods which may not develop properly. Early-sown crops may avoid significant damage if they have already flowered before the number of aphids builds up in the spring. [9]

  5. Legume - Wikipedia

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    Black bean aphids are a serious pest to broad beans and other beans. Common hosts for this pest are fathen, thistle and dock. Common hosts for this pest are fathen, thistle and dock. Pea weevil and bean weevil damage leaf margins leaving characteristics semi-circular notches.

  6. Bean weevil - Wikipedia

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    The bean weevils or seed beetles are a subfamily (Bruchinae) of beetles, now placed in the family Chrysomelidae, though they have historically been treated as a separate family. They are granivores, and typically infest various kinds of seeds or beans, living most of their lives inside a single seed. The subfamily includes about 1,650 species ...

  7. List of organisms by chromosome count - Wikipedia

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    The list of organisms by chromosome count describes ploidy or numbers of chromosomes in the cells of various plants, animals, protists, and other living organisms.This number, along with the visual appearance of the chromosome, is known as the karyotype, [1] [2] [3] and can be found by looking at the chromosomes through a microscope.

  8. List of pest-repelling plants - Wikipedia

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    Pests Artemisias: repels insects, [2] including ants, cabbage looper, cabbage maggot, carrot fly, codling moth, flea beetles, whiteflies, the Cabbage White, and the Small White, as well as mice [3] Basil: repels flies, including mosquitoes [2] [4] the carrot fly, asparagus beetles and whiteflies [3] Borage: repels tomato hornworm and cabbage ...

  9. Callosobruchus - Wikipedia

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    Some are considered pests because they invade stores of legume foods, such as beans and lentils. They lay eggs on the seeds and the larvae consume them as they develop. They emerge from the seeds as adults. [2] C. maculatus in particular is well adapted to living in dry beans and seeds because it does not require food or water to reproduce. It ...