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Insect Ecology: Photophogus Insects
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Insect Ecology: Photophogus Insects
Benefits to plants
Pollinator. Bumblebees.
Description: Bees feed on nectar from plants. Individually they move from flower to another flower. Hence, helping pollen spread which carried through its pollen sacs at their hind legs.
Example of flowering plants: Agastache (Hyssop), Asclepias (Butterfly Weed), Baptisia (False Indigo) and Ceonothus (Wild Lilac).
Pest control. Podisus maculiventris (Spined soldier bug).
Main host: Associated with several crops such as alfalfa, apples, asparagus, beans, celery, cotton and etc.
Description: Prey on organisms consists of plant-damaging bugs, beetles, and caterpillars.
May occasionally suck on your plants in order to get a “drink,” this doesn't harm the plant.
This insect is a generalist predator with a broad host range, as well as eats and attacks 90 insect species over eight orders. Thus, this helps to lower the pests population and damage from the pests on the plants.
Bring harmed to plants
Pest Atherigona soccata, Sorghum shoot fly.
Description: One of the most destructive insects pests. It causes significant losses at the seedling stage of the crop
Main host: Sorghum (genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the grass family (Poaceae).
Alternative hosts: Maize, Finger millet, Bullrush millet, Rice, Wheat, among other grass species
The larva migrates to the upper side of the leaf and moves along the leaf whorl till it reaches the growing point. It will make an incision at the growing point, which results in the central leaf begins to dry up. The larva feeds on the decaying tissue of the central leaf inside the shoot causing the production of deadheart that deformed and stunted the plants. As a result, the plants may fail to grow normally
Pest Danaus plexippus
Monarch Butterfly's Caterpillar.
Description: cut and chew plants using their strong mandibles which can cause an exceptional amount of harm to plants and other vegetation
Why Milkweed Plant :Milkweed contains a a variety of chemical compounds that make monarch caterpillars poisonous to potential predators.
Main host : Asclepias sp. or also known as Milkweed plant
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