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Marchalina hellenica is a scale insect that lives in the eastern Mediterranean region, mainly in Greece and Turkey.It is an invasive species in Melbourne, Australia. [1] It lives by sucking the sap of pine trees, mainly the Turkish Pine (Pinus brutia) and, to smaller extent, Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis), Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Stone Pine (Pinus pinea).
Honeydew drops on leaves Bald-faced hornet sips honeydew from a Disholcaspis quercusmamma gall covered by sooty mold Magicicada cassini "cicada rain" slow motion. Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids, some scale insects, and many other true bugs and some other insects as they feed on plant sap.
Honeydew may refer to: Honeydew (melon), a cultivar group of melon; Honeydew (secretion), a sugar-rich sticky substance secreted by various animals; Honeydew moth (Cryptoblabes gnidiella), a moth of Southern and Middle America; Honeydew, California, United States, a town; Honeydew, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community
The ant species known to live symbiotically with keeled treehoppers are Camponotus ferrugineus, Formica subsericea, Prenolepis imparis, Tapinoma sessile, and Camponotus pennsylvanicus. [8] Ants feed on treehopper honeydew and assist the treehoppers fending off predators and facilitating feeding. [ 9 ]
This treehopper is brown in color and up to 8 millimeters long with a thorn-shaped body. It produces a large amount of honeydew. [2] The bug is gregarious, gathering in large numbers to suck the sap from the stems of plants. Most of its known host species are in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. [5]
Honeydew has a firmer texture and subtler sweetness. It makes a great addition to fruit platters and salads. For instance, honeydew tastes delicious with cucumber and a mint garnish, which you can ...
The species use "piercing-sucking mouthparts" to create honeydew that causes mold, that is the color of soot, to grow on fruit. They are a pest, including in eastern North America where the species is the main mealybug pest.
Dinomyrmex is a monotypic genus of ant containing the species Dinomyrmex gigas or giant forest ant. D. gigas is a large species of ant, native to Southeast Asian forests. It is one of the largest ants in existence, measuring in at 20.9 mm (0.82 in) for normal workers, and 28.1 mm (1.11 in) for the soldiers.