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aphid

any of the small homopterous insects of the family Aphididae, which feed by sucking the juices from plants
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aphid

[ā·fəd]
(invertebrate zoology)
The common name applied to the soft-bodied insects of the family Aphididae; they are phytophagous plant pests and vectors for plant viruses and fungal parasites.
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Two hot spots of Aphid and one hot spot of Thrips were reported from Layyah.
One hot spot of white fly, three hot spots of Aphid and a hot spot of armyworm were reported from Muzaffargarh.
Field experiment was conducted at the farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, D.I.Khan to establish integrated pest management strategy for the control of aphid in canola crop.
The results of our studies indicated that allelopathic water extracts caused a considerable mortality (> 50%) in cabbage aphid populations at 24 h after application.
Table 2, Developmental period of Coccinella transvarsalis Fabricius reared on Akk aphid, phis nerii under laboratory conditions.
None of the oils at the used concentrations was as toxic as Actara insecticide did in reducing the populations of beach-potato aphid. However, these oils showed variability in controlling the aphid.
Development of aphid resistant host plant is considered as an effective, economic and sustainable method for management of aphid (A.
Sublethal effects of a neurotoxic insecticide on the oviposition behavior and the patch-time allocation in two aphid parasitoids, Diaeretiella rapae and Aphidius matricariae.
The dominance of aphidophagous hoverflies is examined over the green aphid (Myzus persicae) colonies on brassica crop, viz., the occurrence and abundance of aphidophagous hoverflies is linked with ecological factors and host plants (Barrett and Helenum, 1987).Numerous features govern the process of oviposition and selection of oviposition site i.e.
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