HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
INSECT PESTS OF FRUITS PLANTATION MEDICINAL AROMATIC CROPS VEGETABLE ORNAMENTAL AND SPICE CROPS
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Question
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The following are plants pests. Choose the type of pest that chewing insects.
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Cabbage Looper
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Corn Earworm
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Squash Bugs
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Potato Tuberworm
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Grasshopper
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Damage. Grasshoppers become economic pests when young tree foliage is extensively chewed by large numbers of insects migrating from unmanaged vegetation. Mature trees are not harmed by grasshopper feeding.
Detailed explanation-2: -Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, cockroaches and earwigs are all chewing insects.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “plant pest", mainly applied to insect micropredators of plants, has a specific definition in terms of the International Plant Protection Convention and phytosanitary measures worldwide. A pest is any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal, or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products.
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