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They can reduce the flowers quality, growth as well as disturb the other aspects of plant life.Īphids both nymph and adult physically attack the flower plants, rupture the plant parts and start to suck cell sap vigorously.
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No doubt, usually insects cannot kill the plants but having serious threats. These are also eye-catching and charming for insects because these are supportive for their nutrition and propagation. For ornamentation, medicinal preparations as well as aesthetic purposes flowers are essential and have great significance. Their population has been going to increase for last decade and had considered as a regular pest in Pakistan 1.įlowers are so much trendy in scenic good looks. The aphids (Aphididae: Homoptera) are commonly called as plant lice, green flies, ant cow and are important sucking pest of various flowers in house gardens and office lawns. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, 20: 160-164.Ĭopyright: © 2017. Aphid Species Affect Foraging Behavior of Coccinella septempunctata (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera). Muhammad Umar Farooq, Hafiz Faqir Hussain Qadri and Muhammad Ahmad Khan, 2017. Thus, further studies are needed to find out alternate predator to control A. septempunctata has significant predatory potential against A. rosea consuming grubs showed 100% adult emergence while, M. Materials and Methods: Biocontrol agent Coccinella septempunctata was used against cosmos aphid ( Aphis spiraecola, rose aphid ( Macrosiphum rosea), gul e ashrafi aphid ( Aphis fabae), kaner aphid ( Aphis nerii), chandni aphid ( Sitobion avenae), dahlia aphid ( Myzus persicae) and annual chrysanthemum aphid ( Macrosiphoniella sanborni). Aphid is an important sucking pest of various flowers in ornamental territories and it is generally controlled by predators, so it was necessary to evaluate which aphid species affect the predator more or less. These are also playing necessary roles in therapeutic preparations.
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Background: Flowers are admirable in scenic good looks and artistic beautification.