Genus name Chlorophytum relates to the leaves of the plants and comes from the Greek words chloros meaning green and phyton meaning a plant. Although this may be true for some species, the vegetative parts are green and not yellow-green in C. comosum. The specific epithet comosum also refers...
Entries linking to spider-plant plant (n.) Old English plante "young tree or shrub, herb newly planted, a shoot or strip recently sprouted from seed," from Latin planta "sprout, shoot, cutting" (source of Spanish planta, French plante), which is perhaps from an unattested verb *plantare...
(Chaucer's usual word),lobbe. Old English also hadatorcoppe(Middle Englishattercop, literally "poison-head"), and (from Latinaranea),renge; Middle English hadaraine, "spider," via Old French from the same Latin word (seearachnid). Another Old English word wasgangewifre"a weaver as he ...
The spider’s name comes from the fact that its body is rather bristly—the Latin origin for the word horrid [horridus] is bristly. The conservation group worries that a planned housing development at an abandoned quarry in Plymouth will wipe out one of just three places where the tiny sp...
Maratus Nigromaculatus –The Maratus nigromaculatus can also be found in Queensland, Australia, and it gets its Latin name from its black spots. Common Peacock Spider –The Maratus pavonis can be seen in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, and “pavonis” means “peacock...
Trail pheromones have been shown to play a role in maintaining colonies of barklice, and treehoppers communicate in the same manner as pergid sawflies by sending vibrational signals through their host plant. In many treehoppers, this form of communication plays a dual role, serving to both ...
The spider’s name comes from the fact that its body is rather bristly—the Latin origin for the word horrid [horridus] is bristly. The conservation group worries that a planned housing development at an abandoned quarry in Plymouth will wipe out one of just three places where the tiny sp...
BOWIE, David, 1947-2016DARWIN, Charles, 1809-1882BARNACLESTAXONOMYHEROESSPIDERSPLANT classificationThe name Microcebus berthae is then an onomastic testament to the work and life of an extraordinary female scientist of color.[8] The last page of the reference provides readers wit...
Spider mites are small insects that infect garden plants. They live on the undersides of the plant leaves where they may spin protective silk webs. They cause plant damage by puncturing the plant cells to feed. Their webs are super fine and spread densel
If you've ever spent any time digging around outside or under logs in the Eastern US (or Midwest) then you've probably encountered our guest beetle for today, the Bess beetle or Bess bug . Their Latin name isOdontotaenius disjunctus(O-don-tote-a-knee-us dis-junk-tus).Odonmeans "...