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insects associate with common crops project
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Insects are responsible for two major kinds of damage to growing crops. First is direct injury done to the plant by the feeding insect, which eats leaves or burrows in stems, fruit, or roots. There are hundreds of pest species of this type, both in larvae and adults, among orthopterans, homopterans, heteropterans, coleopterans, lepidopterans, and dipterans. The second type is indirect damage in which the insect itself does little or no harm but transmits a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection into a crop. Examples include the viral diseases of sugar beets and potatoes, carried from plant to plant by aphids.

Although most insects grow and multiply in the crop they damage, certain grasshoppers are well-known exceptions. They can exist in a relatively harmless solitary phase for a number of years, during which time their numbers may increase. They then enter a gregarious phase, forming gigantic migratory swarms, which are transported by winds or flight for hundreds or thousands of miles. These swarms may completely destroy crops in an invaded region. The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) and migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) are two examples of this type of life cycle.

Medical significance

Insect damage to humans and livestock also may be direct or indirect. Direct human injury by insect stings and bites is of relatively minor importance, although swarms of biting flies and mosquitoes often make life almost intolerable, as do biting midges (sand flies) and salt-marsh mosquitoes. Persistent irritation by biting flies can cause deterioration in the health of cattle.

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