Blissus


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Noun1.Blissus - chinch bugsBlissus - chinch bugs        
genus Blissus
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
family Lygaeidae, Lygaeidae - lygaeid bugs
Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug - small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
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In this study, we sought to investigate the indirect effect of 2 plant growth regulators on turf physiology and Blissus insularis Barber (Hemiptera: Blissidae) abundance in St.
Effect of plant growth regulators on Blissus insularis (Hemiptera: Blissidae)
Characterization of peroxidase changes in resistant and susceptible warm-season urfgrasses challenged by Blissus occiduus.
RESPONSE OF CITRUS ROOTSTOCKS TO DIFFERENT SALINITY LEVELS FOR MORPHOLOGICAL AND ANTIOXIDATIVE ENZYME ACTIVITES
Blissus minutus (Blatchley) and Toonglasa umbrata (Distant): seldom-collected native chinch bugs (Hemiptera: Lygaeoidea: Blissidae) as colonists of the African bunchgrass Eragrostis curvula, and their association with other grasses in the southern United States.
Planthopper (Hemiptera: fulgoroidea) diversity of weeping lovegrass (Eragrostis curvula), an introduced host of little-known, rarely collected native species
(2007) to contain a large number of associate insects (e.g., 12 orders, 37 families, and 54 genera) at Lake Okeechobee, although some of these insects are considered pests (e.g., Blissus insularis Barber).
Panicum repens (Torpedo Grass) in Mississippi
Infection of chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus leucopterus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidaea), adults by Beauveria bassiana (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) conidia in soil under controlled temperature and moisture conditions.
Sensibility of Metarhizium anisopliae to temperature and moisture in three soil types/Sensibilidade de Metarhizium anisopliae a temperatura e umidade em tres tipos de solos
It has excellent mealybug [Tridiscus sporoli (Cockerell) or Trionymus spp.) and buffalograss mite [Eriophyes (Aceria) slykhuisi (Hall)] resistance, and high to moderate chinch bug (Blissus occiduus Barber) resistance (Heng-Moss et al., 2002).
Registration of 'Cody' buffalograss
Characterization of peroxidase changes in resistant and susceptible warm-season turf grasses challenged by Blissus occiduus.
Host plant resistance in cultivated jute and its wild relatives towards jute hairy caterpillar Spilosoma obliqua (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)
Manejo integrado de plagas en maiz y sorgo con enfasis en Blissus spp.
Actividad de forrajeo de Polybia occidentalis venezuelana (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)
Augustinegrass include susceptibility to the southern chinch-bug (Blissus insularis Barber) and high energy inputs of supplemental irrigation and mowing practices to maintain an attractive turfgrass sward (McCarty, 2003).
St. Augustinegrass response to plant growth retardants
The southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis Barber, is considered the most damaging insect pest of this grass (Kerr 1966; Reinert & Kerr 1973; Reinert & Portier 1983; Crocker 1993).
Susceptibility of Blissus insularis (heteroptera: hemiptera: blissidae) populations in Florida to bifenthrin and permethrin
Ademas, Blissus leucopterus Barber y Protonellus constrictus Stal (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) (Bruner et al.
Cuantificacion del dano ocasionado por Oebalus insularis (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) en el cultivo de arroz (Oryzica-1) en Panama

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