richest source of vegetable oil comprising 65 to 70% oil. Oil is widely used as hair oil, to manufacture soap, cosmetics and other industries. Husk is…
quantities of eggs, between one and three, in the hairs of green ears of corn. The larvae feed on the hairs of the young corn and on the young kernels…
white wax. The legs, antennae and body hairs are conspicuously black. The nymphs and adult females produce long, hair-like, transparent rods of wax…
are around 2mm long, silvery white in colour with wings fringed with long hairs. They are active both in day and night. The entire life cycle takes 3…
the flies. Direct damage is the immediate result of larvae feeding on root hairs and tender roots as well as stem and leaf tissue and fruits. The…
literally means ‘fringed wings’, and refers to the eyelash-like fringe of hairs along both edges of the thin wings. There are more than 6,000 known…
infected directly, through wounds, hydathodes (the end of leaf veins) or the hair bases. Stems are infected through wounds and by the infected leaves…
wingspan is about 40-55 mm and the dorsal thorax is covered with close-lying hairs. The eggs are white at first but rapidly turn darker. They are laid…
are mostly formed around the point of attachment of lateral roots and root hairs. The lesions may grow and encircle the root. The roots become…
packets, sometimes in several layers, and on top of a mass of white, cottony hairs and scales from the moth’s body. The eggs, usually grey but…
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