They dart among flowers and lay eggs among clusters of aphids, mealy bugs, mites, scale and other pests where their larvae can feed. |
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Insects such as ants, mealy bugs and thrips have been found in 37 out of 43 shipments, which then needed fumigation. |
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Like mealy bugs, aphids excrete honeydew which gives leaf surfaces a shiny appearance and supports the formation of sooty mold. |
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At my prompting, we sat outside, where the mealy smell of cooking grease gave way to carbon monoxide. |
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Spider mites, mealy worms and scale are insect pests that are attracted to orchids. |
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Pseudopollen is a mealy material, usually whitish or yellowish in colour, which superficially resembles pollen. |
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Chana masala is an intense dish of chick peas in a hot and spicy masala sauce, which retains a lush mealy quality, often served with pilau rice. |
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Absolutely flavorless, the lukewarm, mealy bracelet turns into an unappetizing gum once it hits the mouth. |
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On papaya, mealy bugs damage the plant by sucking its juices and excreting a clear, gooey substance called honeydew. |
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Perhaps more insidiously, insects such as fruit fly can carry spores associated with bunch rots, and mealy bug can transmit leaf roll virus. |
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Aphids are coming out and if you notice white fluffy stuff on your citrus it is highly likely it's a mealy bug. |
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The suede holster is mealy and punky and falls apart almost instantly. |
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A mammoth serving of apple-and-quince crisp was less successful, as was a chalky semifreddo made with mealy corn cakes and a mash of seedy huckleberries. |
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The root is round, seldom larger and often smaller than a small carrot, grey outside and yellowish white within, with a mealy texture like a floury potato. |
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That tape will prove far more persuasive than any expedient and mealy mouthed evasions. |
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Condemnations of Taliban attacks on politicians' opponents have been mealy mouthed when they have been made at all. |
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Its somewhat dry and mealy flesh, which can be easily separated from the seed after boiling in salted water, is fermented into a beverage. |
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It has large fruits containing a mealy substance that can be used for making bread and fermented drinks. |
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Indeed, one need only move to other nearby areas for the grains to change from vitreous to mealy. |
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The mealy bug seemed to prefer hibiscus, a pretty flower found in many gardens. |
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A user e-mails a request to ARIS for information on, say, how to control cassava mealy bug. |
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The story began two to three years before that, when the mealy bug caused considerable damage to crops and other plants in neighbouring Grenada. |
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Surveys later showed that most people had heard about the mealy bug through the mass media. |
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However, reports of the mealy bugs quickly multiplied: they were spreading fast. |
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I see no reason why you can't use equally mealy cannellini beans if that is what you have, though I have used butter beans before now and good they were too. |
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Brown, mealy flesh, occurring in overmature, overstored fruit. |
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Juicy fruit possessed pectin of greater extractability than mealy fruit, with high amounts of loosely bound polyuronides and low amounts of tightly bound pectin. |
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She noticed, trailing from the corner of the frozen grimace of his mouth, a trickle of mealy yellow liquid that was drying into a crust on his cheek. |
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And a souplike dessert cup of tender, mealy taro root in gentle coconut broth, speckled with tiny grains of tapioca, is absolutely strange and absolutely delicious. |
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Three thousand wasps were released into the chintzy holiday islands of the Florida Keys last week, to devour a plant parasite called the pink hibiscus mealy bug. |
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Soft-shell crab should be lighter, the flouring less mealy, but tamales, especially white corn with huitlacoche, have the right balance, inside and out. |
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Heads of rich purple flowers, coated on the outside of the blooms and down the stem with mealy white farina, distinguish this easily grown primula. |
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Keep an eye out for any pest infection such as greenfly, scale or mealy bug. |
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Pollen development and cohesion in a mealy and a hard type of orchid pollinium. |
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They get their kicks by comparing whether they share the gene that makes urine stink after eating asparagus, or the one that determines whether earwax is mealy or oily. |
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After pruning, apply a dormant oil spray if scale, mealy bugs, whiteflies, or mites have overwintered on your plants. |
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Third worst is the mealy apple, all too common in the coming season. |
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Green lacewings eat red spiders, aphids, mealy bugs, thrips, scale, and more. |
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It provides long-lasting protection over a period of several weeks or months primarily against sucking insects such as aphids, leaf hoppers, whitefly, and some thrips, scale insects, and mealy bugs. |
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Thankfully, insects generally aren't a problem but the red spider mite and the mealy bug are the main pests attracted to poinsettias. |
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I often use the mealy type for vinaigrette-based dressings because they do absorb, and waxy for mayonnaise concoctions because they do not. |
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But my contract has mealy reached its term. |
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It was learnt that Bollgard technology is completely ineffective against Cotton Leaf Curl Virus, White Fly and mealy bugs. |
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On the whole, these soils give the beans high water absorption, a low ash content and better organoleptic properties after cooking, principally a smoother skin and a more mealy albumen with little graininess. |
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Despite many African agricultural research successes, such as the development of NERICA rice, a vaccine for rinderpest and control of cassava mealy bug, living standards in much of Africa continue to fall. |
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The committees recognized that public awareness and extension programmes were essential to alert people to the mealy bug and the devastation it could cause. |
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These included yellow-naped, blue-fronted, double yellow-headed, yellow-headed, Mexican red-headed, mealy, orange-winged, and yellow-fronted Amazon parrots. |
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Scrappy New Englanders grinding acorns for flour, mulching their gardens with eelgrass, making ink from oak galls, pretending cranberries aren't bitter and mealy. |
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It protects many fruit and vegetable crops against sucking insects like aphids, scales, mealy bugs, woolly aphids, whiteflies and certain thrips species. |
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