ENTOM 312 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nabidae, Anthocoridae, Reduviidae

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Used to be two orders: hemipteran, homoptera. Piercing-sucking mouthparts; liquid feeders: two holes in mouthparts, food goes in one and saliva out the other true bugs. Medical importance; some species are disease vectors feed on plant juices transmit 2/3 of important viral plant diseases. Basal half of front wing thickened and leathery. Assassin bug: can transmit (cid:272)haga"s disease. Important predator species: wheel bug, damsel bug, minute pirate bug **used for bio-control** Aquatic hemipterans: most are predaceous, most can fly and are attracted to lights, water strider, backswimmer, giant water bug, water boatman. Formerly known (cid:862)ho(cid:373)optera(cid:863) consists of cicadas, hoppers, aphids, scales, whiteflies. Inactive or sedentary homopteras: mealy bugs, aphids, scales. Aphids- very common sessile, sucking insects: many have live birth, produced cloned daughters, males generated later in season; disperse, overwinter, easy prey, mutualism ants defend aphids in exchange for honeydew.

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