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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
black, whatever the body colour, which can vary widely, from light yellow to light green, or even a green-black colour . This body colour depends on t
the final instar (approximately 35 mm) and its longitudinal stripes on the body. When the larva has fully developed, it stops feeding and descends…
and on top of a mass of white, cottony hairs and scales from the moth’s body. The eggs, usually grey but sometimes greenish or pinkish, are laid at…
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