wn body that is coated with white and yellow wax. The adult ‘females’ are easily recognized by their large size (up to 10 mm long), red-brown body…
fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of…
Heteropteran bugs are insects which have flattened bodies and fold their wings flat over their body when at rest. The wings overlap each other…
transverse black bands across the body. The antennae are 0.7-1.0 times the body length, reaching to the siphunculi. The body length is 1.2-2.3 mm.…
rods round the edge of the body, and two slightly longer ‘tail filaments’ . The tail filaments are always shorter than 20% of body length. They…
reddish-brown with dark spots. In later instars the head is mottled, and the body is marked with three prominent longitudinal dark bands with numerous…
oblong. Larvae are creamy white, legless, pyriform with a brown head and body comprised of 13 segments. Fully grown larvae migrate to the periphery of…
in the form of unripe fruiting bodies in infected fallen leaves or in lesions on twigs. These unripe fruiting bodies, or pseudothecia ripen in winter
controlling their populations. These tiny wasps lay their eggs inside or on the bodies of host pests. When the eggs hatch, the wasp larvae feed on and…
marked by a number of darker bands, and their length exceeds that of the body. The legs are also long, there are two distinctive dark green spots on…
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