abdomen. The posterior body division of an arthropod.
abiotic disease. A disease caused by factors other than pathogens.
abiotic disorder. A disease caused by factors other than a pathogen; physiological disorder.
In the male the palps are modified for putting sperm into the epigyne of the female, located on the underside of her abdomen. Pathogen Any organism that causes disease, generally applied to bacteria, viruses, and less correctly, fungi.
The adult queen is easily identified since she is longer than the worker or drone and her abdomen extends well beyond her wings. She is a reproductively perfect female with welldeveloped ovaries and a sperm storage organ called the spermatheca.
The pest: Adult is a metallic, greenish-brown beetle with white tufts along the abdomen. The larva is a white grub that curls into a "C" when disturbed. Japanese beetles are currently found in much of the eastern half of the United States.
They have a pointed abdomen with four white cross bands (fig. 1). The males are smaller and have three cross bands on a rounded abdomen. AM wings are clear and marked with characteristic black bands (fig. 2).
The pain also may spread to the abdomen, producing cramping and nausea. Other general symptoms include: restlessness, anxiety, breathing and speech difficulty, and sweating.
Most bees have a patch of stiff hairs under their abdomen or along their hind legs, called a scopa, into which they push grains of pollen to bring back to their nest.
The brownbanded cockroach, or supella longipalpa, grows to about half an inch long and is light brown with two lighter-colored bands that run across its body at the base of its wings and on its abdomen.
They are grey or black and have orange and brown stripes on the edges of their abdomen.
Squash bugs' preferred food is yellow crookneck or yellow straight-neck squash.
Note: Yellow head, large eyes, thorax thinner than abdomen, spicules or spurs on the hind legs. Click image to enlarge.
Spur on rear leg. Click image to enlarge.
Spur enlarged 40x. Click image to enlarge.
Petiole-1) The leafstalk that connects the blade(s) to the twig. 2) The narrow stalk or stem by which the abdomen is attached to the thorax (Hymenoptera, wasps). 3) In ants, the node-like first segment of the abdomen.
Some have wings, while others are wingless. Most aphids have a pair of tube-like structures protruding from their abdomen called cornicles and a third projection from the tip of the abdomen called a cauda.
It inflates its wings with a pool of blood it has stored in its abdomen. When this is done, the monarch expels any excess fluid and rests.
cornicle A short, blunt horn or tube (sometimes button-like) on the top and near the end of an aphid's abdomen. Emits a waxy liquid that helps protect against enemies.
corolla Collectively, all of a flower's petals.
While enjoying yourself in the garden, you are also working all the major muscle groups: legs, buttocks, arms, shoulders, neck, back and abdomen. Gardening tasks that use these muscles build strength and burn calories.
of used tires from Asia, it's also blamed in the transmission of dengue fever, yellow fever, dog heartworm, eastern equine encephalitis. A small mosquito (the adults are 1/8 inch long), it can be identified by its black-and-white striped abdomen and ...
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