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Any member of phylum Arthropoda having segmented body, thick exoskeleton that is shed from time to time, a number of jointed appendages, i.e., legs, antennae, cerci, etc., and a nervous system with double ventral cord.
Industry:Agriculture
Food source, other than the natural host plant, consisting of amounts of various components which are mixed and provided to insects in the rearing program. The diet may be holidic (chemically pure), meridic (one or more chemically undefined materials such as wheat germ), or xenic (host plant materials plus supplemental nutrients).
Industry:Agriculture
A substance having an agar base with different chemicals or other constituents developed to replace the normal food or diet in rearing insects or pathogens.
Industry:Agriculture
The larva of the family Noctuidae which often travels in large populations from field to field. The armyworm moths are ash to light brown, with mottled forewings that have irregular white or light gray spots near the extreme tip or with two pale semicircular spots in the middle. Adults migrate from the grassy areas or upland crops to ricefields and deposit their eggs. The larvae move in armies and may eat entire rice plants.
Industry:Agriculture
Animals in the Arthropoda, a phylum consisting of animals with jointed limbs, e.g., the Insecta (insect) and Arachnida (mites and spiders).
Industry:Agriculture
A soil moisture regime that limits plant growth during much of the growing season.
Industry:Agriculture
An outer covering of the seed arising from the stalk of the ovule or below the hilum, the pulpy inner pod.
Industry:Agriculture
