A vapor or liquid emitted by an insect that causes a specific response from a receiving insect. Some pheromones are used to find a mate. Synthetic pheromones are used as attractants in insect traps. Related Images:
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Nocturnal
Active at night. Related Images:
Orthoptera
A major order of insects that have two pairs of wings, or are wingless, and chewing mouthparts (grasshoppers, crickets, and cockroaches). Related Images:
Nonselective pesticide
A pesticide that kills most plants or animals. Related Images:
Organic pesticide
Pesticides derived from plant or animal sources. Related Images:
Nematode
Microscopic roundworms that live in soil and living tissue, as well as water, and survive as eggs or cysts. Related Images:
Nematicide
A material that kills or protects against nematodes. Related Images:
Mandible
The first pair of jaws on insects: stout and tooth like in chewing insects, needle or sword-shaped in sucking insects. The lateral (left and right) upper jaws of biting insects. Related Images:
Mallophaga
A major order of insects that are wingless and have chewing mouthparts (chewing lice). Related Images:
Lepidoptera
A major order of insects that have two pairs of wings and sucking or siphoning mouth-parts as adults and chewing mouthparts as larvae (moths, butterflies). Related Images: