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Insects can be very harmful to cotton in a variety of ways. These include:
- Eating the leaves and stems of cotton plants reducing the overall yield.
- Spreading disease and insects through their saliva and feces.
- Damaging the fibers of the cotton reducing the quality of the fabric.
Insects can also harm cotton indirectly by competing for resources with the cotton plants including nutrient uptake and pollination. In addition some insects such as aphids can act as a vector for plant viruses which can cause serious damage to the cotton crop.
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What are harmful insects?
Harmful insects are insects that are harmful in any way to plants, animals or humans. There are many ways in which insects can be harmful to the above; insects such as locusts can form huge swarms that can destroy whole crops in minutes. Other insects can pierce a leaf or stem of a plant and suck out its juices, leaving the plant to wither and die. Various types of insect carry diseases such as malaria and encephalitis which leave many children in developing countries orphaned and many parents childless.
What are some ways insects can be harmful and helpful?
They can Bite, scratch, sting you also here are some insects taht are harmful Ex. Onespotted stink bugs, Thrips, Misquitos, Aphids, and sawflies. P.S. Spiders are not insects they are Arachnids.
What are two ways insects are harmful to society and two ways they are beneficial?
Harmful: ~Mosquitoes/flies can spread diseases like malaria. ~Wasps/Bees/Hornets can sting people ans sometimes kill. Beneficial: ~Silk comes from silkworms. ~Honey bees produce honey. ~Lady bugs eat pests. ~Insects are used by scientists to find out more about life and other things. Plus many more!
What language do crickets speak?
Insects are not capable of language. They communicate in other ways.
What are the four ways to move pollen from the anther to the stigma?
1. Bees and other insects 2. Wind 3.
Is cotton organic?
Cotton can be grown in organic ways.
Are pheromone traps considered as chemical insecticides?
Insects use pheromones to communicate with each other in two main ways. One is when insects such as ants leave a pheromone trail for other members of the colony to follow to a food source. The other way is to release pheromones to indicate when they have found food; bees and some others use this method.
Why are some minibeasts poisonous and some not?
Some insects develop poisonous bites as a defense mechanism. Other insects develop alternative ways of defending themselves from predatory insects and animals.
What are ways to keep insects off plants?
Netting indoors and row covers outdoors are ways to keep insects off plants.Specifically, insects can be beneficial or harmful to plants. Netting encases a houseplant whereas row covers protect plants arranged in straight lines. Indoors or out, the two options keep insects from getting in contact with above-ground plant parts. They serve as effective measures although they will be problems in the case of plants to be pollinated by such beneficial insects as bees (Apisspp).
What is a sentence with the word harmful?
Try not to get harmful substances in your eyes.Bullying is harmful in more ways than one. It is also illegal under international law.These berries are harmful, but not poisonous.It is very harmful to drink lava.
India exports cotton fabrics and items to many other countries how does it helps us?
we get profit by export in many ways.
How many ways can you get lung cancer?
You can get lung cancer by genes, smoking, and exposing your lungs of other harmful gasses.
