Homopterans including aphids, whiteflies and leafhoppers are the major vectors of viruses
comprising more than 80% of insect-transmitted viruses which represents close to 400 virus …

▪ Abstract Hopperburn is a noncontagious disease of plants caused by the direct feeding
damage of certain leafhoppers and planthoppers. Although long studied, especially with …

The electrical penetration graph (EPG) technique is a powerful tool for studying feeding
behavior of pierce-sucking insects, because it allows quantification of complex insect–plant …

This study is the first to statistically analyze the stylet probing/penetration behaviors of Lygus
(Hemiptera: Miridae) bugs, and the external body movements associated with both probing …

Since McLean and Kinsey in the 1960s developed the 1st electronic monitor for studying the
probing behavior of aphids, electrical penetration graph monitors, or EPG monitors, as they …

Much of what is known today about hemipteran feeding biology, as well as mechanisms of
their host plant interactions and transmission of phytopathogens, has been learned via use …

Aphids are phloem feeders. Before feeding can be started, aphids must reach a food plant
and select a probing site on the plant. From here their stylets need to penetrate the phloem …

Studying the feeding, host damage, and transmission (ie, acquisition, retention, and
inoculation) of pathogens (plant and animal) by piercing-sucking arthropods is challenging …

Studying the intimate association of arthropods with their physical substrate is both important
and challenging. It is important because substrate is a key determinant for organism fitness; …

Abstract The sharpshooter Homalodisca coagulata (Say)(Hemiptera: Cicadellidae:
Cicadellinae) is an exotic vector of the Pierce's disease (PD) bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa …