Gardening is an excellent way to save money, eat healthily, and incorporate more vegetables into your diet. If you have your own grown vegetables when preparing dinner, you can walk out back and pick some fresh vegetables, and also you can enjoy them all year long. If you’re considering starting a garden. You may be…
Mealybugs are worldwide pests of ornamental plants grown indoors (greenhouse) and outdoors (scape environments and conservatories). As well as both greenhouse and field-grown ornamentals are commonly attacked by mealybugs. Mealybugs feed on a wide range of plants. Mealybugs are difficult to manage with insecticides and the host plant range depends on the particular mealybug species….
Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV) is one of the serious diseases of bananas. It stunts the plants while reducing yield severely. The disease is caused by a virus called Banana bunchy top virus (BBTV), considered to be the most economically destructive of the viral diseases and can contribute up to 100 % yield reduction. Disease…
Plants can be propagated sexually and asexually. Sexual propagation includes propagation by seeds, while asexual propagation is based on the vegetative parts of plants for raising new ones. Vegetative parts of plants like shoots, leaves, buds, roots, stems, and underground parts are used in different ways for reproducing new plants. Asexual propagation is the best…
A terrarium is an attractive miniature garden in a clear glass container for the places where people live and work. The word Terrarium had been formed through “terra” which means soil and the word “aquarium”. A terrarium means a soil aquarium or a miniature plant ecosystem, which has its own cycle just like the nature…
Whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a plant sap-feeding insect which belongs to the order Homoptera, is a global pest causing significant loss to a wide variety of agricultural commodities. Whiteflies are not true flies. It is related to aphids, scales, and mealybugs. Whiteflies cause damage to plants in two ways. Such as by sucking the sap…
