diameter of approximately 0.14 mm. The larvae have six legs, are the same colour as the eggs, and are only slightly larger. They do not need to feed…
larvae ( caterpillars ) are 30-40 mm long. They have six instars that vary in colour from light tan to green to black. They have a distinct white…
the butterfly species that are active during the day can be strikingly colourful while moth flying at night are usually inconspicuously brownish are…
in the surface layers. The pupa is 15 to 20 mm long and reddish brown in colour. The forewings of the adult cotton leafworm (Spodoptera littoralis)…
cycle, with both winged and wingless forms of adults and a great variety in colour. When reproduction is asexual, the young aphids are born as…
with a large head and bright red eyes. Adult females are very variable in colour. They range from almost white through yellowish orange to almost…
instar and the adult fly. Adult leaf miners are small yellow and black coloured flies , at most only several millimetres long. When the adult females…
produce many adventitious roots on the stem. The vascular stem tissue is coloured brown and when the stem is cut, bacterial slime oozes from the…
The full-grown caterpillars are 20 to 30 mm long and have a creamy white colour. Along the dorsal surface of the body there are pairs of dark dots.…
along the back, which is sometimes constricted to form one or more light-coloured diamonds, thus the common name diamond back moth. The moths are weak…
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