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The BioCare Clothes Moth Trap attracts and captures adult male webbing clothes moth. Clothes moths occasionally occur in homes where the larvae damage clothing and personal objects made of wool, hair, fur, or feathers. Female moths are especially attracted to oily or soiled fabrics, where they lay their eggs. The moths avoid light and are therefore difficult to find and identify. The BioCare Clothes Moth Trap catches webbing cloths moth during their mating season by using a natural pheromone lure. If moths are found in the trap, take immediate measures to control the larvae.

Petunia

Petunia ? hybrida flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae

(unranked): Angiosperms

(unranked): Eudicots

(unranked): Asterids

Order: Solanales

Family: Solanaceae

Subfamily: Petunioideae

Genus: Petunia
Juss.
Species
See text.

Petunia is a widely-cultivated genus of flowering plants of South American origin, closely related with tobacco, cape gooseberries, tomatoes, deadly nightshades, potatoes and chili peppers; in the family Solanaceae. The popular flower derived its name from French, which took the word petun, meaning "tobacco," from a Tupi-Guarani language. Most of the varieties seen in gardens are hybrids (Petunia ? hybrida)[1].
Origin
The origin of P. ? hybrida is thought to be by hybridisation between P. axillaris (the large white or night-scented petunia) and P. integrifolia (the violet-flowered petunia). P. axillaris bears night-fragrant, buff-white blossoms with long, thin tubes and somewhat flattened openings. The species was first sent from South America to Paris in 1823. P. integrifolia has a somewhat weedy habit, spreading stems with upright tips, and small lavender to purple flowers. It was discovered in South America by the explorer James Tweedie, after whom the genus Tweedia is named, who sent specimens to the Glasgow Botanical Garden in 1831. Many open-pollinated species are also gaining popularity in the home garden.[2] A wide range of flower colours, sizes, and plant architectures are available in both the hybrid and open-pollinated species.[3]

[edit] Classification
Some botanists place the plants of the genus Calibrachoa in the genus Petunia[4]. Botanically speaking, tobacco, tomato, potato, and petunia are all in the family Solanaceae[5].

Petunias are generally insect pollinated with the exception of P. exserta, which is a rare, red-flowered, hummingbird pollinated species. Most petunias are diploid with 14 chromosomes and are infertile with other petunia species.[citation needed]

The foliage of Petunias is sometimes eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Dot Moth and Hummingbird hawk moth.[citation needed]

[edit] Categories
[edit] Grandiflora
This type of petunias has the largest flowers, up to 4 inches in diameter. Of all the petunias these have the widest variety of forms and colors but are the most likely to be damaged by heavy rain. There are four types of grandiflora and they are classified by their colours, namely, ‘Daddy Series’ (shades of pink and purple), ‘Merlin Blue Morn’ (blue and white), ‘Supercascade Series’ (many colours) and ‘Ultra Series’ (many colours including bi-colour)[6].

[edit] Hedgiflora (spreading)
Hedgiflora or spreading petunias (sometimes called ground-cover[7]) are characterised by their low height (usually about six inches), but a large spread (about three to four feet). They will cover a large area provided they have adequate water and fertilisation. ‘Purple Wave’ was the first introduced cultivar of spreading petunias and grows to a height of 4 inches. ‘Tidal Wave’ is another spreading type of petunia, but is much taller (between sixteen and twenty two inches). ‘Opera Supreme’ is a cultivar with large flowers[8].

[edit] Multiflora
Multiflora compared with grandiflora are half the size of 2 inches in diameter, are not easily damaged in heavy rain and can tolerate more sun. Multiflora petunias cultivars include: 'Carpet Series "(many colors),' Surfinia Series' (pink, blue, purple and white), and 'Wave Series' (pink, coral and purple). They spread quickly and are ideal for basket.
Milliflora
Milliflora are the smallest of the petunias and about 1 inch across. These are prettiest when mixed with other plants in containers, along garden beds, and edges. Milliflora are available in 'Fantasy Series' (red, purple, pink) and are the easiest to find. 'Supertunia Mini Series' (blue, pink, lilac, purple and white) are also available in the milliflora category. They tolerate harsh weather better when compared with grandifloras and multifloras[10].
Fonte-wikipedia.

So proclaimed The Plumber this morning when I showed him this guy.

He was over to assess how bad the drainage system of the house is, and as he was about to leave, I suddenly remembered I had a couple of these guys and their larvae captive and thought he might be able to tell me something about them.

His attitude had been light up until that point despite the fact that the piping is broken and will require front yard excavation to fix it, but as soon as I mentioned these guys, he got very serious, and immediately started firing questions at me as to exactly what kind of fly, so I showed him.

He took one look and said that these flies are ALWAYS a sign of a pipe broken under the house. Just what we wanted to hear. I'm VERY glad I'm renting, but I am renting the basement, which of course would be the site of mass destruction in that instance. He explained that the larvae live in a slimy pocket of dirt that forms near a crack in the pipe, and the flies come up through cracks in the foundation.

I had never heard this before and was wondering if anyone here could verify or deny. I know that I mostly find the flies in the bathroom, and that all larvae I've found have been in the shower. The basement is carpeted, so it seems it would be difficult for them to come up from cracks in the foundation, through carpet, though there is a huge crack running across my living space under the carpet. And that does make it seem likely that, in the shifting of the house, a pipe could have gotten broken.

We couldn't get a clear answer out of him as to whether this was catastrophic and would require the basement to be dug up, but in the end it really sounded like what it came down to was that, if nothing was done, we'd just continue to have flies, but there might not be much that would happen in the way of drainage badness.

If that's the case, my landlady is very happy to have someone like me, who doesn't mind having cute flies around, as a tenant. ;-)

Psychodinae
Moth Fly

In our own juvenile stage, many of us received our wide-eyed introduction to the wonders of nature by watching the metamorphosis of swimming tadpoles into leaping frogs and toads. The recent alarming declines in amphibian populations worldwide and the suitability of amphibians for use in answering research questions in disciplines as diverse as molecular systematics, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology have focused enormous attention on tadpoles. Despite this popular and scientific interest, relatively little is known about these fascinating creatures.

In this indispensable reference, leading experts on tadpole biology relate what we currently know about tadpoles and what we might learn from them in the future. Tadpoles provides detailed summaries of tadpole morphology, development, behavior, ecology, and environmental physiology; explores the evolutionary consequences of the tadpole stage; synthesizes available information on their biodiversity; and presents a standardized terminology and an exhaustive literature review of tadpole biology.

To the untrained observer, the question of why tadpoles--those bug-like creatures that metamorphose into frogs--exist is one of life's many mysteries. It is something of a mystery to biologists as well; they posit that the tadpole's small body size is an evolutionary advantage in a world of large-mouthed predators, but they remain uncertain as to how nature came to afford frogs this advantage in the first place.
Indeed, there is much that scientists do not know about tadpoles, a theme that volume editors Roy McDiarmid and Ronald Altig sound several times during this comprehensive survey of what is known about anuran larvae, including details of gross anatomy, feeding behavior, and ecology. Part of the problem, they suggest, is that data are lacking; field scientists have not invested much time in collecting larvae and tadpoles in various stages of development, and the morphological diversity of tadpoles is so immense that no one scientist can hope to know every aspect of their life histories and behaviors. "Less than a third of all tadpoles have been described reasonably well," the editors write, "and the number of entries that have no data, including endotrophs and exotrophs, shows that much work remains." The editors add that in a time when frogs and other amphibian species are disappearing around the world as a result of climatic change and habitat destruction, it is ever more important that such collections be undertaken.
Students of amphibian life and comparative biology will find this a highly rewarding collection, one that suggests many opportunities for further research. --Gregory McNamee