Jackfruit Jackfruit‚ Artocarpus Heterophyllus‚ is said to originate from the Western Ghats although no one is definite on this. It grows in rain forests and along low-elevations through out India‚ Burma‚ Ceylon‚ Southern China‚ Malaya‚ some small parts of Australia and the East Indies. It was introduced into Florida in approximately 1887 but few trees now remain. The jackfruit comes from a very large and bushy tree‚ which is also used for shade‚ and can range from 30-70 tall with glossy‚ green
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Shigetane Ishiwatari first isolated the bacterium Bt as the cause of the sotto disease (sudden-collapse disease) that was killing large populations of silkworms . Ten years later‚ Ernst Berliner rediscovered Bt because it was used as a pathogen of flour moths in Thuringia‚ Germany. He named the bacterium after the town Thuringia‚ Germany even though it was named Bacillus sotto in 1901. Berliner also discovered the existence of a crystal within Bt in 1915‚ but it was
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COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES Student Handout MODULE: Fundamentals of Plant Protection UNIT: Entomology Year 1 Semester 2 Compiled by: Karma Penjore & Dr. Jamba Gyeltshen August 2009 Updated by Ugyen Yangchen March 2013 CONTENT Introduction to entomology ........................................................................3 A Class of Distinction ................................................................................................ 3 The Dominance of Insects ............
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A garden of small flowers. Two Beetles‚ Saint Beetle and a Field Beetle‚ enter discussing Poet Beetle’s plight. Saint Beetle’s sympathy is with the boy‚ but the Field Beetle is less so. She sees him as a worthless vagrant who will not work for his food (“[he] doesn’t work and apply himself” 2.1). Saint Beetle retires to her cave to pray for Poet Beetle. Sylvia’s mother‚ Dona Proudbeetle‚ enters with Witch Beetle and the Butterfly. They prepare the ground where the Butterfly
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The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle that has migrated over from Asia to the United States. Over the past twenty years‚ the EAB has spread throughout the United States. Emerald ash borer infects and kills ash trees. They have few natural predators’ in the United States‚ and can devastate entire ash tree populations. Emerald Ash Borer In Georgia The state of Georgia has been very proactive in regards to controlling the EAB population. They began trapping programs in state forests back
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technology for fighting bark beetles in the western United States. Dunn first became interested in the bark beetles and their ability to destroy drought weakened pine trees‚ when there was an influx of tree deaths in Northern New Mexico‚ where he was living at the time. Dunn began to wonder what that much biological activity sounded like‚ so he recorded the bark beetles using a listening device he built for ten dollars. After recording many different types of bark beetles that lived in trees at various
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thoughtful consideration as a human’s? Is a beetle only less significant as a human due to the contrasting proportions? Does size matter at all? A dead beetle lies on a path through a field and is meditated on for only a glance. The passing person then continues the right of way. Wislawa Szymborska attempts to change our ideas of death to comprehend that even small things are relevant as shown in the poem‚ ‘Seen From Above‚’ by utilizing the imagery of the dead beetle‚ through claiming death’s metaphorical
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forestry industry is the most impacted by climate change. Climate change is affecting British Columbia severely because of the mountain pine beetle. The mountain pine beetle is a bug that is native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to British Columbia. It is a very small (5mm) black bug that is very hard to identify. The mountain pine beetle is responsible for destroying the trees that are harvested by the forestry industries by blocking
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beans than black. Therefor‚ the white bean population will decrease. In the “beetles” environment the predominant colors are brown‚ green‚ black and tan; and the predominant colors for beans being brown‚ black‚ green and white. Knowing the predominant colors of the environment and of the “beetles” would show that the white color in the species would stand out and be selected against in natural selection. The other “beetles” have similar colors to there environment and would be selected to survive.
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the protein content is lower but they are relatively richer in vitamins and soluble carbohydrates. Pulses are commonly used as dehusked‚ decorticated and whole seed‚ as dhal and taken with chapattis and cooked rice. They are also used in the form of flour such as that of chickpea‚ known
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