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Angiosperm Families - Cyclanthaceae Dum.
... or less lobed cupule when present in male flowers, free or basally connate in females); 1 whorled (usually), or 2 whorled (seemingly, in Evodianthus); sepaloid; fleshy (often, in ... oily, or not oily (?). Seeds winged (with a long terminal appendage, in Stelestylis), or wingless. Seeds with starch (Cyclanthoideae), or without starch (Carludovicioideae). Embryo well differentiated (small to medium ...
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Ants
... reproductives - queens and males) can be found in most colonies. Worker ants, which are sterile females, are seldom winged. They often are extremely variable in size and appearance within a given ... . Winged females die about 400 days after starting a colony. The queen is then replaced by a wingless daughter that mates with a wingless male who is capable of multiple matings. The wingless reproductives ...
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Subterranean Termites
... . Soldiers defend the colony against insects, like ants, that can attack the colony. Soldiers are wingless and white in color with large brown heads and mandibles (jaws). King and queen termites ... noticed by the presence of winged reproductives. Mating occurs during these flights, and males and females form new colonies. Winged termites can be distinguished from flying ants by their thick-waist ...
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The Attack of the Adelgid
... cycle, which involves two different kinds of trees, both winged and wingless insect forms, and sexual and asexual reproduction. We told you it ... Immature adelgids (nymphs) overwinter on the tree. These nymphs, which are all females, are about 1 mm long. They mature by mid-May and ... red to purple in colour. They remain this colour until the females emerge in the summer, and then the galls dry and become ...
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More Beneficial Bugs
... harmful insects. BRACONIDS-These time (2.5 mm) wasps are mainly parasitic in behavior. The females lay eggs in their prey. The developing larvae inside the host insect eventually kills the ... . The male fireflies are winged; often the females are wingless, or fly very little. Males are the conspicuous sex, with their illuminating body organs. Females and the larvae form can be luminous, and ...
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Biology of Subterranean Termites in the Eastern United States
... Worker termites (Fig. 5) are physically and sexually immature males and females and are the most numerous caste. These wingless, white insects are typically the first termites seen when an active ... use to ward off enemies, primarily ants and termites from other colonies. Soldier termites are wingless, blind, and otherwise soft-bodied. In Reticulitermes, soldiers typically comprise 1–2% of the ...
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Silverfish and Firebrats, HYG-2108-94
... long and broad near the head, tapering toward the rear-somewhat "carrot" shaped. These fragile, wingless insects are covered with scales and have two long, slender antennae at the head and ... under rocks, bark and leaf mold, and in ant, termite, bird and animal nests. Silverfish females may lay over 100 eggs during a lifetime. Eggs are laid singly or two to ...
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American Chestnut Foundation - Ambrosia Beetles, family Scolytidae
... "ambrosia” fungus garden. This is a matriarchal society. Males are fewer, wingless, much smaller, and never leave the colony. Adult females may leave to form new colonies in late summer, or remain ...
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THE PUZZLE OF THE FIG
... is still in her pistil. Soon after the wingless male dies; most male carcasses remain in the syconium. Meanwhile, the winged, gravid females emerge and leave the fig through the ostiole. Eventually ... . After a short period, the new generation of fig wasps emerges; males impregnate females and die while gravid females escape to colonize new flowering figs. However, the profichi caprifig has many male ...
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Pinus cembra fact sheet
... branch tips; females, reddish purple in small groups at branch tips. Fruit: Woody cone, nearly round, up to 3 inches long, thick, purple-brown scales, scales remain closed; large, wingless edible seed ...
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