ambrosia beetle造句

• Ambrosia beetles are an ecological guild, but not a phylogenetic clade.
• All ambrosia fungi are probably inoculum from fungal gardens of other ambrosia beetle species.
• The highest diversity of ambrosia beetles is in the tropics.
• Compared to the diversity in the tropics, ambrosia beetle fauna in the temperate zone is rather limited.
• The only two other groups of insects that have evolved fungus-based agriculture are ambrosia beetles and termites.
• Other foreign pests include the Asian ambrosia beetle ( " Xyleborus glabratus " ) borbonia " ).
• Little is known about ecology of ambrosia fungi, as well as about their specificity to ambrosia beetle species.
• It causes Japanese oak wilt disease, and is spread by the ambrosia beetle ( " Platypus quercivorus " ).
• Agriculture usually refers to human activities, although it is also observed in certain species of ant, termite and ambrosia beetle.
• Unfortunately, due to an invasion of redbay ambrosia beetle in the Southern United States the tree is slowly dying out.
• The family also includes the ambrosia beetles, of which the present-day subfamily Platypodinae was formerly considered the distinct family Platypodidae.
• After landing on a suitable tree, an ambrosia beetle excavates a tunnel in which it releases spores of its fungal symbiont.
• The word is also commonly used to refer to the practice of cultivating fungi by leafcutter ants, termites, ambrosia beetles, and marsh periwinkles.
• This fungus, harbored in the mycangium of the redbay ambrosia beetle " Xyleborus glabratus ", is in the form of a budding yeast.
• Until recently ambrosia beetles have been placed in independent families Scolytidae and Platypodidae, however, they are in fact some of the most highly derived weevils.
• "Austroplatypus incompertus " is a species of ambrosia beetle native to Australia, and is the first beetle ( order Coleoptera ) to be recognized as eusocial.
• Ambrosia beetles ( " Monarthrum scutellare " ) will most likely infest a dying tree during midsummer, producing piles of fine white dust near tiny holes.
• However, " Platypus " had already been shown to be used for the scientific name for a genus of Ambrosia beetles so Blumenbach's scientific name for the genus was used.
• Field and laboratory observations have since confirmed that the redbay ambrosia beetle will infest avocado trees, although there may be some variation in how susceptible different avocado cultivars are to the laurel wilt fungus.
• Logs and dying trees of several hardwood species including pignut hickory are attacked by the ambrosia beetle ( " Platypus quadridentatus " ) throughout the South and north to West Virginia and North Carolina.