Ammophila


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Ammophila

 

a genus of plants of the family Gramineae. The perennial grasses range in height from 0.5 to 1 m and have creeping rhizomes. The plants form a thick turf. The leaf blades are stenolinear. The inflorescence is a long and dense cylindrical panicle, and the spikelets are single-flowered and strongly laterally compressed. The glumes are stenolanceolate and keeled. The lemmas, which are leathery and have three to five ribs, are shorter than or the same length as the glumes.

There are two species of Ammophila, distributed in Europe, North Africa, and eastern North America. They grow on sandy coastal soils and dunes. In the USSR, the European beach grass (A. arenaria) grows on the coasts and islands of the Baltic Sea. The plant is sometimes used to stabilize sandy coastal soils and dunes.

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Bergson, quoting Fabre, has made play with the supposed extraordinary accuracy of the solitary wasp Ammophila, which lays its eggs in a caterpillar.
According to Fabre's observations, which Bergson accepts, the Ammophila stings its prey EXACTLY and UNERRINGLY in EACH of the nervous centres.
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Other specimens collected from weed flowers with entomological nets were: Pepsis aciculata Taschenberg, Sphex lucae Saussure, Dipogon subintermedius Magretti (recorded in Mexico for first time), Triscolia ardens Smith, Ammophila spp.
Identification of Megachilid species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) and other pollinators in apple orchards in Chihuahua, Mexico
2120 - Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes")
SOSS DUNES LIFE - Safeguard and management Of South-western Sardinian Dunes - A project for the pilot area of Porto Pino
Determining the Appropriate Scale: Phytometric Analysis of Ammophila breviligulata, Potentilla anserina, and Juncus balticus.
Environmental science & ecology
Like Ammophila arenaria caryopses grown in the laboratory [2], the caryopses of these species have an optimal germination in the temperature range 15-25[degrees]C.
Environmentally induced variation in germination percentage and energy of naked caryopses of Loxodera ledermannii (Pilger) W.D. Clayton ex Launert in subhumid Benin (West Africa)
Effects of Ammophila arenaria on sand dune arthropod communities.
Assemblages of rodents in riparian forests along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park, Texas: current and historic insights on the effects of invasion by saltcedars
NMSA prey records include (sex of predator in brackets): Hymenoptera (2): Sphecidae, Ammophila sp.
A review of Daspletis Loew, 1858 with the addition of a remarkable South African species (Diptera: Asilidae: Stenopogoninae)
Development of a negative plant-soil feedback in the expansion zone of the clonal grass Ammophila arenaria following root formation and nematode colonization.
Arbuscular mycorrhizas: drivers or passengers of alien plant invasion
The first sphecine, Chalybion californicum (de Saussure), was collected on 30 May, and the last, Ammophila urnaria Dahlbom, on 10 October.
Abundance and diversity of thread-waisted wasps (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sphecinae) at Alice L. Kibbe Life Science Station, Hancock County, Illinois USA
This species matures much earlier than Rabidosa rabida and Hogna ammophila (Wallace, 1942), two large lycosids occurring in the same habitats.
Sosippus revisited: review of a web-building wolf spider genus from the Americas (Araneae, Lycosidae)
The role of plant-parasitic nematodes and soil-born fungi in the decline of Ammophila.
Detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in an east Texas forest by analysis of SSU rRNA gene sequence

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