Response of Leafhopper Community Structure and Diversity to Fragmented Habitat in a Rocky Karst Desertification Area, Guizhou, China [PDF]
InsectsGuizhou Province is located in the karst area of southern China, where rocky desertification is severe, and habitat fragmentation is prominent. Leafhoppers are widely distributed, with over 2000 recognized species found in China.
Wenming Xu +3 more
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What Is the Relationship Between Efficacy of Seed Treatment with Insecticides Against Dalbulus maidis (Delong and Wolcott) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) Healthy and Infected with Spiroplasm in the Corn Stunt Control? [PDF]
InsectsSeed treatments with insecticides are important tools for managing corn stunting disease complex (CSDC) transmitted by Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) by reducing the initial leafhoppers’ population and, consequently, the risk of pathogen ...
Ana Carolina M. Redoan +9 more
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Innovative Pest Management Strategies in Phytoplasma Insect Vectors Control [PDF]
PlantsPhytoplasmas are obligate intracellular plant pathogens that cause numerous severe plant diseases in agricultural crops worldwide. Phytoplasmas are transmitted primarily by phloem-feeding insect vectors such as leafhoppers, planthoppers, and psyllids ...
Adalbert Balog +2 more
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Tiny particles help insects evade predators [PDF]
eLifeBy reducing the reflection of ultraviolet light, hollow nanoparticles called brochosomes help to protect leafhoppers from predators.
Lin Wang, Tak-Sing Wong
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Leafhopper food plants in a Neotropical forest in Panama (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 The leafhoppers (Cicadellidae) are a group of insects that suck sap from vascular plants. The host plants of most species of Cicadellidae are unknown, but some species are known to have a wide range of food plants, while others are host plant specific ...
EDWIN DOMÍNGUEZ +2 more
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Efficacy of Certain Alternative Insecticides against Major Insect Pests of Sesame Crop under Field Conditions [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2022 Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) crop considers as one of the important oilseed crops in the world. Effectiveness of ten selected insecticides [Vertimec 1.8% EC, Agrin 6.5% WP, Thiovit 80% WG, Spinosad 48% SC, Evisect 50% SP, Match 5% EC , Pestban 48% EC ...
S. Gameel, M. Fakeer,
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Genetic insights into Graminella nigrifrons Competence for maize fine streak virus infection and transmission. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Most plant-infecting rhabdoviruses are transmitted by one or a few closely related insect species. Additionally, intraspecific differences in transmission efficacy often exist among races/biotypes within vector species and among strains within a virus ...
Bryan J Cassone +4 more
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Insects, 2023 The mosaic leafhopper, Orientus ishidae (Matsumura), is an Asian species widespread in Europe that can cause leaf damage in wild trees and transmit disease phytoplasmas to grapevines. Following an O.
Giovanni Dalmaso +6 more
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Fingerprinting of Leafhoppers on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in Egypt Using ISSRs [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2016 Leafhoppers are one of the most important agricultural insect pests. Traditional morphological criterion for leafhoppers identification depending on the presence of males only.
Heba Ibrahim, A. Sharaf, A. Helmi
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Insects, 2023 Scaphoideus titanus is the main vector of phytoplasmas associated with Flavescence dorée (FD), one of the most serious threats to viticulture in many European countries.
Stefan Cristian Prazaru +9 more
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