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.
It can concluded that the high protein, moderate fiber contents and high in vitro digestibility found in
Ammophila arenaria, Trigonella maritime and Vicia monantha, Vicia sativa, Ononis vaginalis, Atriplex nummularia and Lycium shawii make them good quality wild forage plant species that can be used in ruminants' nutrition under Egyptian rangelands conditions.
On coastal dunes,
Ammophila breviligulata is often planted as a management technique to slow dune advance.
Because restoration of degraded dune systems is occurring and likely to continue, we examined the occurrence of amphibians in drainages associated with a coastal dune ecosystem degraded by invasive plants (European Beachgrass,
Ammophila arenaria, and Iceplant, Carpobrotus edulis).
III Characteristics: Limonium obtusifolius 2, Senecio leucanthemifolius + in 1; Lobularia maritima 1, Sporobolus pungens and Sonchus bulbosus + in 2; Crithmum maritimum 3, Anthemis maritima and Plantago coronopus 1, Camphorosma monspeliaca and Allium commutatum + in 3; all species 1 in 4;
Ammophila arenaria, Rumex tingitanus, Silene glauca, Hypochoeris achyrophorus, Smilax aspera and Avena sterilis II in 5.
In fact Emery and Rudgers (2012) reported that
Ammophila breviligulata, a native dominant dune-building grass of the Great Lakes inhibited growth of Centaurea in a greenhouse environment while its own growth was unaffected by the invader.
C(13) Trielis octomaculata A(81) hermione (Banks) Sphecidae
Ammophila spp.
Mechanism of control of root-feeding nematodes by mycorrhizal fungi in the dune grass
Ammophila arenaria.
2120 - Shifting dunes along the shoreline with
Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes")
Also, Rau (1938) observed sleeping aggregations of the wasp Prionyx atratus (as Priononyx atratum) (Sphecidae) on weeds at the edge of a harvested wheat field and the wasp
Ammophila nigricans (Sphecidae) roosting on low plants between a garden and 'the woods', in Missouri, USA.
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.
