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• Ladybug
  ...lly considered to be useful, as many species feed on [[aphid]]s or [[scale insects]], both of which are common garden pests.
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• Scale insect
  ...s the superfamily '''Coccoidea'''. There are about 8,000 species of scale insects. ...some species in the genus ''Newsteadia'' in the family Ortheziidae. Scale insects vary dramatically in their appearance from very small organisms (1–2&nbsp
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• Jatobá
  ...sts with many clues to its prehistoric presence on earth as well as to the insects and other plants encased in it. (As shown in the Jurassic Park movies) ...es 660 lbf, White Oak 1360 lbf, and Brazilian Walnut 3800 lbf on the Janka scale.
  2 KB (309 words) - 13:45, 10 November 2007
• Confidor
  ...kill sucking insects such as [[aphid|aphids]], [[mealy bug|mealy bugs]], [[scale]], [[whitefly]] and [[thrips]].
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• Mealybug
  ...ft plates and a cottony white covering. They are related closely to scale insects, but do not attach to a plant and can moved around very slowly. They can s ...ects in '''Pseudococcidae''', a [[family (biology)|family]] of unarmored [[scale insect]]s found in moist, warm climates. They are considered [[pest (animal
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• Organic horticulture
  ...al, or garden, scale before they were developed for distribution for field-scale agricultural use. Parallel with this fact is that organic-horticulture lit ...er [[pesticide]]s also encourages rapid [[natural selection]] of resistant insects, plants and other organisms, necessitating increased use, or requiring new,
  6 KB (885 words) - 11:54, 5 May 2007
• Simarubaceae
  ...rse, rarely 0; stamens usually twice the petals, filaments naked or with a scale; carpels 2-5, free, or connate at the base or by the styles, or completely ...ter wood of species of Simaruba are used in tropical America to drive away insects. The seeds of Simaruba Cedron are used for the same purpose. Various specie
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• Aspidistra elatior
  ...is not seriously troubled by insects, however [[mite]]s and [[scale insect|scale]] may cause occasional problems.<ref name=mobot/> Its leaves and roots may
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• Vermicompost
  ...er suppliers, or from [[angling]] shops where they are sold as bait. Small-scale vermicomposting is well suited to turn kitchen waste into high-quality soil [[Image:Wormbin.jpg|right|frame|Diagram of a household-scale worm composting bin]]
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• Coconut
  ...e ground and it will no longer be possible to raise catch-crops on a large scale. Then, but not before this time, it is good practice to use the grove for p ...ly good trees. They are usually planted in seed-beds, although, on a small scale, there are various other local methods of handling them during germination.
  13 KB (2,099 words) - 00:14, 28 July 2009
• Dioon
  Dioon (Greek, two and egg; each scale covers two ovules and the seeds are in pairs). Cycadaceae. Handsome foliage ...—D. edule has a flat rigid frond which is more easily kept free from scale insects than Cycas revoluta, the commonest species of the family in cult. A specime
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• Dyckia
  Root rot if overwatered during cold weather. Scale insects. Slugs or snails may attack the flower stems.
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• Ants
  ...or button-shaped knot, a character that distinguishes ants from all other insects. Everyone is familiar with ants; they occur in all lands and all regions, f ...ave no further association with them. The ants, however, stand alone among insects in their very intimate relations with their progeny from the egg to the adu
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• Carpinus
  ...stamens, 2-forked at the apex; pistillate catkins terminal, slender, each scale bearing 2 ovaries, the bracts and bractlets of which develop into a large, ...tools and other small articles. The handsome foliage is rarely attacked by insects, and assumes a yellow or scarlet color in fall. The most beautiful are C. c
  6 KB (939 words) - 22:20, 7 June 2009
• List of organic gardening and farming topics
  ...ction tools and methods, somewhat to the exclusion of the methods of large-scale organic operations (which are nonetheless increasingly common).
  7 KB (766 words) - 15:24, 9 April 2007
• Pigeon pea
  In [[Thailand]], pigeon peas are grown as host for [[scale insect]]s which produce [[lac]].
  5 KB (712 words) - 11:03, 12 July 2007
• Lepidoptera
  ...ies. The name is derived from [[Ancient Greek]] [[wikt:λεπίδος|λεπίδος]] (scale) and [[wikt:πτερόν|πτερόν]] (wing). ...ave two pairs of membranous wings covered, usually completely, by minute [[Scale (zoology)|scales]]. In some species, wings are reduced or absent (often in
  17 KB (2,310 words) - 04:25, 28 September 2007
• Inspection of Horticultural Merchandise
  ...legislation of this nature resulted from the introduction of the San Jos6 scale into the eastern United States and its threatened general distribution on n ...thoroughly discouraged, the project was definitely abandoned— the San Jos6 scale in the meantime having been earned on nursery stock into practically every
  25 KB (3,791 words) - 07:40, 9 March 2010
• Schefflera arboricola
  [[Scale]] insects, [[thrips]], [[mealybugs]]{{AHS}}.
  4 KB (572 words) - 14:43, 20 May 2010

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