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• Rice green leafhoppers, Nephotettix virescens and Nephotettix nigropictus, destructive pests of Asia เพลี้ยจั๊กจั่นสีเขียวข้าว หรือเพลี้ยจักจั่นสีเขียวข้าว และเพลี้ยจั๊กจั่นสีเขียวหน้าผากดำ แมลงศัตรูข้าวที่สำคัญของเอเชีย

  
  SIAM INSECT-ZOO & MUSEUM — Authority: 129
  Nephotettix virescens (Distant)Nephotettix nigropictus (Stål)        These are two important tropical rice green leafhoppers. The adults are 3-5 mm long, bright green with variable black markings in the middle of fore-wing. N. nigropictus bears a transverse curved line between compound eyes which is absent ...
  5 days ago

• Small white hopper, Nisia carolinensis feeds on sedges not a pest in rice เพลี้ยจั๊กจั่นแถบขาวเล็ก ดูดกินน้ำเลี้ยงจากกก ไม่ใช่แมลงศัตรูแต่พบใกล้นาข้าว

  
  SIAM INSECT-ZOO & MUSEUM — Authority: 129
  Nisia carolinensis Fennah, 1971It is similar to Cofana spectra (Distant), but smaller and placed in a different family (Meenoplidae) from the latter (Cicadellidae). It often abundance along the edges of rice field, feeding on Cyperus spp., including C. rotundus, C. compactus, C. iria and Scirpus grossus. It has not ...
  5 days ago

• White-backed planthopper, Sogatella furcifera เพลี้ยกระโดดหลังขาว ศัตรูข้าวที่สำคัญชนิดหนึ่งที่มีลักษณะ และการทำลายข้าวคล้ายกับเพลี้ยกระโดดสีน้ำตาลมาก

  
  SIAM INSECT-ZOO & MUSEUM — Authority: 129
  Sogatella furcifera (Horvath)         White-backed planthopper is a major rice pest in many parts of Asia, including Thailand. It prefers feeding on rice stem just above the water level. The damages normally are not so severe comparing to the brown planthopper. However, after long used of insecticides its ...
  6 days ago

• Preventing release of alarm pheromones increases homosexual pairing in bed bugs.

  
  Cheshire — Authority: 109
  I really don’t think it’s possible to write a boring post on bed bugs. The way in which they reproduce is simply one of the most bizzarre…and brutal…methods of insemination in the animal kingdom. One of my favorite webcomics, Dinosaur Comics described their reproduction quite well: I also like writing ...
  6 days ago

• Egg predaceous bug, Cyrtorhinus lividipennis, an important predator of the brown planthoppers มวนเขียวดูดไข่ มวนตัวห้ำที่สำคัญที่ชอบดูดกินไข่ ตัวอ่อนและตัวเต็มวัยเพลี้ยกระโดดสีน้ำตาล

  
  SIAM INSECT-ZOO & MUSEUM — Authority: 129
  Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter         The egg predaceous bug is an important predator of brown planthoppers in rice field. It can destroy either eggs or various instars of  nymphs and adults. Each female and male can destroy in average 403 and 232 eggs, respectively.         ...
  6 days ago

• More Sketchy Science: Do Tomatoes Really Eat Insects?

  
  Cheshire — Authority: 109
  I’ve been seeing this story more and more around the news, exemplified by this Telegraph article…apparently, there are some researchers that discovered that tomatoes have hairs on them which trap and kill small insects. The Telegraph reports: New research shows that they capture and kill small insects with ...
  6 days ago

• Cicadetta kansa in Oklahoma

  
  Beetles In The Bush — Authority: 416
  Another of the insects that I saw this past June at Four Canyon Preserve in northwestern Oklahoma was this small cicada, Cicadetta kansa. Though not as small as the diminutive Beameria venosa (see North America’s smallest cicada), their barely audible call – a soft buzz – makes them even more difficult to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cowpea aphid, Aphis craccivora, an important insect pest of legumes growing in Asia including Thailand เพลี้ยอ่อนถั่ว เพลี้ยอ่อนสีดำขนาดเล็กที่มีความสำคัญมากในเขตปลูกถั่วทั่วเอเชียรวมทั้งไทย

  
  SIAM INSECT-ZOO & MUSEUM — Authority: 129
  Aphis craccivora Koch, 1854        Cowpea aphid, groundnut aphid is a relatively small black aphid with the size rarely longer than 2 mm. The adult is usually shiny black, winged or wingless, while the nymph is slate gray. The legs and antennae are usually whitish with blackish tips. The cornicles are usually ...
  3 weeks ago

• Giant Water Bug

  
  Myrmecos Blog — Authority: 424
  Belostoma sp. water bug, Illinois I’m so used to taking photos of fast-moving ants and beetles that a sedentary insect comes as something of a relief.  Instead, the challenge with this Belostoma giant water bug was lighting the shot. Aquariums are prone to reflections and dust on the glass.  I arranged a ...
  4 weeks ago

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