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Farmers used various methods to kill insects that threatened their plants, including chemical pesticides, biological control agents like ladybugs or parasitic wasps, and mechanical methods like hand-picking or trapping insects. Integrated Pest Management (IPM) combines these approaches to minimize the use of chemicals and maintain a balance between pests and their natural predators.
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Why are there more insects on crop plants than wild plants?
Crop plants are more susceptible to insects
Do insects eat plants?
Yes, many insects feed on plants as part of their diet. Some insects, like caterpillars and grasshoppers, are herbivores and primarily eat plants for sustenance. However, not all insects consume plants; some are carnivorous and feed on other insects or animals.
Does wind insects and animals help plants reproduce by bringing together pollen and eggs?
Yes, wind can help plants reproduce by carrying pollen from one plant to another, aiding in pollination. Insects and animals can also play a role in pollination by transferring pollen as they move between plants. This process is crucial for plants to produce seeds and fruits for reproduction.
Can animals help reproduct pitcher plants?
Yes, some animals such as insects and birds can help pollinate pitcher plants by transferring pollen between male and female flowers. This process is essential for the plants to produce seeds and reproduce.
Why do pitcher plants eat insects?
Pitcher plants eat insects as a source of nutrients, particularly nitrogen. These plants typically grow in nutrient-poor soil, so they have evolved to supplement their diet by trapping and digesting insects in their pitcher-shaped leaves. This adaptation allows them to thrive in environments where other plants struggle to survive.
What kind of animal that helps farmers by eating insects harmful to plants?
A Ladybird
What are Inseticides and why are they used?
Insecticides are pesticides that that are used by farmers to control plants and animals and also used to destroy insects.
What role do insects play in the fertillization process?
They deliver pollen from the stamens of plants to the ovaries of other plants
How does reproduction in plants take place?
Sexual reproduction occurs in plants by the process of pollination. Insects come and collect pollen from the plants that then travel to other plants pollinating them.
What do farmers use instead of pestisides?
Lots and lots of hand labor to pull weeds, pick off insects, and clean the plants of disease.
Do the red species of ladybug eat plants?
Ladybug Beetles are carnivores. They are often used by farmers to eat harmful insects that are infesting a crop.
Why are birds insects and bats important to farmers?
Bees are not only important to farmers there important to us, bees are responsible for one in every three bites of food we eat and if they disappear (which they're doing right now) crops would suffer, farmers would suffer and we would suffer.In a word, pollination.
What do brolgas eat?
it eats wetland plants, insects invertabrates and amphibians
What do wind bees buterflies and other types of insects birds bats and mice have to do in a process that has to do with a plants?
pollination
What does the Venus Fly Trap plants do with the insects they catch?
By enzymatic process, they "digest" the body of the insect as nourishment.
What are the interactions between plants and insects?
insects eat plants
Do eastern woodlans have farmers?
Yes, the Native Americans there did grow crops and the colonists did as well. In fact, they brought in plants, animals, and insects not native to North America.
