diameter, dark red, and oval with small ridges running top to bottom, with a thin stalk on top. They look a bit like an onion. Adult females are about
(Spodoptera exigua) lays its eggs in packets, sometimes in several layers, and on top of a mass of white, cottony hairs and scales from the moth’s…
less translucent and their body is cylindrical. The larvae are found in the top layer of damp soil, where they also pupate. The adult shore fly is…
no ‘solutions’ or ‘cures’ for the problems caused. Psyllids spread purple-top disease in potatoes and permanent yellowing disease in tomatoes, both of…
by walking. The tobacco aphid tends to form denser colonies, closer to the top of the plant, than the peach potato aphid . It is not known to what…
later. These maggots live in and just beneath the algal crust growing on top of the soil/medium, where they feed on algae, bacteria, yeasts and other
via a T-shaped fissure. The adult whiteflies can usually be found in the top of the plant and on the underside of young leaves, where they deposit…
drop. The adults are gregarious, usually beginning to feed on foliage at the top of a plant and working downwards. The larvae are most abundant in…
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