Cockchafer Beetle (Melolontha melolontha) - Entomologist.net
The larvae, known as "white grubs" due to their creamy-white coloring, are an integral part of the beetle's life cycle. To identify this captivating insect, two distinctive features prove helpful. One can observe a pair of spines located at the end of each wing cover, as well as three distinctive lines running down either side of their thorax.
Cockchafer - Wikipedia
It is native to Europe, and it is one of several closely-related and morphologically similar species of Melolontha called cockchafers, alongside Melolontha hippocastani (the forest cockchafer). The adults and larvae feed on plants, and are regarded as serious agricultural pests of crops such as grasses and fruit trees.
The Common cockchafer (or May-bug or May-beetle), Melolontha melolontha, is a common large beetle which often crashes into lighted windows, at night during May. The larvae (so-called grubs) are fat and white and have a curved body shape and live in …
Melolontha melolontha (white grub cockchafer) | CABI …
2021年11月17日 · New chemical control tests against white grubs, the larvae of the common cockchafer Melolontha melolontha L., in permanent meadowland. Phytiatrie-Phytopharmacie, 27(4):297-306. Google Scholar
Common cockchafer - Biocontrol, Damage and Life Cycle - Koppert
The life cycle of the common cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha) has the following stages: egg, three larval instars, a pupal instar and the adult beetle. The adult beetle is 25 to 30 mm long, with a dark head, black pronotum covered with short hairs, and reddish brown elytra with four longitudinal ribs each.
Cockchafer | European, May, June | Britannica
Cockchafer, (Melolontha melolontha), a large European beetle that is destructive to foliage, flowers, and fruit as an adult and to plant roots as a larva. In the British Isles, the name “cockchafer” refers more broadly to any of the beetles in …
ADW: Melolontha melolontha: INFORMATION
Larvae gnaw at small roots of field plants, and are indiscriminate feeders; they eat grain, grass, tree, and beet roots, moving as much as 30 cm a day while eating large sections of crop rootlets. Cockchafer larvae feed on new, fresh soil roots and do not usually eat decaying organic matter.
Sensing the Underground – Ultrastructure and Function of ... - PLOS
2012年7月25日 · Here, we present an atlas of the sensory organs on larval head appendages of Melolontha melolontha. Our ultrastructural and electrophysiological investigations allow annotation of functions to various sensory structures. Three out of 17 ascertained sensillum types have olfactory, and 7 gustatory function.
(Meleolontha melolontha L.). The larvae cause extensive and lethal damage to the roots of young trees. No procedure for chemically controlling soil-dwelling cockchafer larvae has been approved for use in integrated fruit production (IFP), the most widespread environmentally sound production program in Hungary. Growers
Melolontha melolontha - Monaco Nature Encyclopedia
The larva develops underground close to roots it eats. It can live up to 4 years (the winter is passed by digging up to 100 cm of depth). Between late April and the whole month of May it goes up towards the surface of the soil where it passes to the stage of pupa, that is creates a cocoon inside which it metamorphosizes (modifies) in adult.