Worm castings are formed with earthworms’ poop. This creates a rich organic matter that is 100% humus. Worm castings are an excellent soil additive and support plant growth and overall health. Worm castings contain beneficial, rich microbiological colonies that work to fight soil-borne disease pat...
Ants, for example, are predatory insects that do not feed on grass, but their colonies are associated with soil and usually the soil under turfgrass. White grubs, weevils/billbugs, crane flies, mole crickets, and ground pearls are the main groups of grass-feeding insects found in soil. ...
Define Grubworm. Grubworm synonyms, Grubworm pronunciation, Grubworm translation, English dictionary definition of Grubworm. n. 1. See Grub, n., 1. And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view. - C. Smart. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, publishe
Eastern tent caterpillars feed in colonies and can defoliate trees by early summer. Bagworms Step 1 Bagworms also spin a protective shelter out of silk but theirs are somewhat different from the eastern tent caterpillar and webworms. Bagworms include bits of organic matter along with silk in th...
Wormlions (Vermileosp.) were collected from loose soil patches located next to buildings providing cover, at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (Fig.1a). We focused on shade and deep sand in the following experiments, both of which are preferred by wormlions in choice settings57,58. Th...
The bacterial community associated with insects was significantly different from that in the soil. Some differences appear to exist between insects from non-diapausing and diapausing colonies while no significant differences in community composition existed between the insects reared on different soils. ...
[20,23–26]. As for roundworms, hookworms have a complex biological cycle, in which different sources and ways of infection are possible. The most important infectious stage is represented by filariform larvae present in the soil, which infect a suitable host by actively penetrating the skin ...
The numbers represent the average values of the clear zone indices; however, the signs (-, +, and ++) denote whether there has been no growth, growth, or good growth of bacterial colonies in media supplemented with pesticides Full size table The multiple sequence alignment (MSA) was ...
Genetic Diversity in Laboratory Colonies of Western Corn Rootworm (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Including a Nondiapause Colony Laboratory-reared western corn rootworms, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera, from colonies maintained at the North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory (N... KK Seok,FB Wade,DV...
Martin and her coworkers at USDA isolated a purple-pigmented bacteria (PRAA4-1) from a forest soil in Maryland (Martin et al., 2007a). It is a facultatively aerobic, motile, Gram-negative betaproteobacterium with polar flagella. Colonies formed at 2-3 days on an L-agar plate at 25° ...