Host Plants and Seasonal Distribution of the Tarnished Plant Bug (Hemiptera: Miridae) in the Delta of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. L. Snodgrass ◽  
W. P. Scott ◽  
J. W. Smith
2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 725-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Esquivel ◽  
S. V. Mowery

Author(s):  
Ilyor Mustafaev

The article presents data about 14 species of smut fungi that occur in the Nurata ridge. During analyzes confinement them to host plants revealed that they parasitize on 16 species of vascular plants belonging to 5 families. On family Poaceae was observed 10 species of smut fungi that constitute 71.4 % of the total of smuts of Nurata. 14 species of smut fungi observed in seasonal distribution were studied. Among them 2 species (Vankya heufleri, Antracoidea eleocharidis) found in the spring, only 1 species (Ustilago cyno-dontis) in spring-autumn period. Also smut fungi first time found on host plants of Carex stenophylla, Tulipa turkestanica, Thalictrum sultanabadense, Stipa capillata and Stipa lipskyi in Uzbekistan. Refs 7. Figs 5. Tables 3.


EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2004 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne N. Dixon ◽  
Thomas R. Fasulo

Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), the tarnished plant bug, attacks a wide variety of economically important herbaceous plants, vegetable crops, commercial flower plants, fruit trees, and nursery stock (Kelton 1975). In fact, over half of the cultivated plant species grown in the United States are listed as host plants for tarnished plant bugs (Capinera 2001). This document is EENY-245 (originally published as DPI Entomology Circular 320), one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published: November 2001.  EENY-245/IN513: Tarnished Plant Bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Miridae) (ufl.edu)


1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarmo K. Holopainen ◽  
Jaana Tuhkalainen ◽  
Pirjo Kainulainen ◽  
Heli Satka

Polyphagous Lygus (Heteroptera: Miridae) bugs, which have one of the widest documented host-plant ranges, have accepted nursery-grown conifer seedlings as host plants only recently. One explanation for this adaptation to the conifer nursery environment could be the increased attractiveness of conifer seedlings due to herbicide treatments. In three laboratory experiments, we tested whether atrazine treatments (2 or 4 kg•ha−1) affected shoot chemistry of pine seedlings and the feeding and oviposition behaviour of the European tarnished plant bug, Lygusrugulipennis Popp. Shoot growth of the pine seedlings was decreased by the atrazine treatment (2 kg•ha−1) in only one experiment. The number of feeding lesions caused by Lygus bugs and the number of eggs laid per seedling were not affected by herbicide treatments, nor was the proportion of seedlings damaged. Concentrations of total amino acids were not affected by the herbicide in any of the experiments. In one experiment, the level of lysine was increased in the atrazine treatment. Terpenes and resin acids were analysed only in one experiment, and total concentrations of these defence compounds were not affected by atrazine. Dominant monoterpenes were α-pinene and 3-carene, the latter varying strongly between individual seedlings. Abietic acid and neoabietic acid were the dominant abietane and pimarane resin acids. The results suggest that applications of atrazine are not likely to reduce the resistance of pine seedlings to Lygus bugs. Herbicides may have an indirect effect by reducing the availability of alternative host plants for bugs. Other potential causes for increased numbers of Lygus bugs on nursery-grown conifer seedlings are discussed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 06 (08) ◽  
pp. 1313-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Sudbrink ◽  
Steven J. Thomson ◽  
Reginald S. Fletcher ◽  
F. Aubrey Harris ◽  
Patrick J. English ◽  
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EDIS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Cuda ◽  
Patricia Prade ◽  
Carey R. Minteer-Killian

In the late 1970s, Brazilian peppertree, Schinus terebinthifolia Raddi (Sapindales: Anacardiaceae), was targeted for classical biological control in Florida because its invasive properties (see Host Plants) are consistent with escape from natural enemies (Williams 1954), and there are no native Schinus spp. in North America. The lack of native close relatives should minimize the risk of damage to non-target plants from introduced biological control agents (Pemberton 2000). [...]


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