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| The sage leafhopperscan cause many herbs, including rosemary, lasting damage. Their sucking the leaves causes white or yellowish spots, and severe infestations of these insects can lead to crop failure. | | |
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| ... mid June to October and prefers to live near standing water like ponds, pools or small lakes. They move away in search of food, on regular flight paths and are often found long distances from home in forests or forest edges. They prey on flying insects, capturing them while flying at low levels and the males may show considerable perseverance. Southern hawkers defend their territory at the water against conspecifics as well as other species of dragonflies. | | |
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| ...visible edge on the inside. The antennae are situated near the eyes. The thorax is almost spherical and has a rough scattering of spots. An important feature is the Scutellum which backwards is shaped like a double peak. The wing covers of younger insects are lighter in colour (brownish-yellow), and darken over the course of time (reddish brown). They have a scattering of spots similar to that of the thorax. | | |
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| ...to the host animal and lay eggs between the segments of their abdomen. The hatching larvae then eat their way into the abdomen of the host animal, reside there and feed on the insides of the host until it is hollow. The larvae overwinter in the host insects. Some species, such as Conops flavipes (the most common species of the genus Conops) live in the nests of bees and bumblebees where their larvae feed on the bee brood. | | |
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| Leaf-miner flies reach body lengths of 2-3 mm. Their wings can be 1-7 mm in length. A striking trait of these insects is that the skin on the forehead and face is a markedly different colour to that of the rest of the head; this is due to a hardening of the skin which causes this special colouration. | | |
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| The rabbit hutch spider is active at night and moves back into narrow cavities in the daytime, as it is very shy The females prey on small insects (mosquitoes, flies or other species of spiders) which they either capture in their k web, or restrain on the ground. They are capable of overwhelming prey much larger than themselves likehouse spiders, for example. Males usually wander around. | | |
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| Arachnids, in contrast to insects, have 8 instead of 6 legs. Instead of compound eyes arachnids have 8 simple eyes. The head and chest are one unit (prosoma). The prosoma is followed by the abdomen which is not divided and mostly appears in a bigger size. They are a member of the... | | |
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| ...ntal illness (arachnophobia). Some species of spiders are in fact dangerous to humans, for example, the black widow. In Cambodia, spiders are brutally killed and eaten. However in many Asian cultures, the spider is considered useful because it kills insects. In West Africa, the spider is considered a deity. | | |
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| ...ted number of plant families (oligophagous). This is reflected in the name of each species (hawthorn lace bug, sugarcane lace bug, avocado lace bug, azalea lace bug etc. ). Lace bugs sit on the flowers and leaf undersides of their host plants. These insects are rather inactive and mostly hide between plant’s hairs, spines or in deeper holes. When disturbed they are unlikely to escape. Lace bugs feed on plant juices, which they remove from the epidermis layer of the leaf undersides with their piercing a... | | |
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| The body is constructed like that of other insects. The head is equipped with compound eyes, antennae and a proboscis. It is followed by the chest (thorax) with the wings, which characterise the shape of lepidopterans. Finally there is the abdomen. Lepidopterans reach body lengths of 1.5 - 100 mm.... | | |
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