Citrus mealybug

The male nymph attaches itself to the plant, whereas the females remain mobile throughout their entire development. After the second instar, a male nymph [...] becoming an adult the females start to release a sex pheromone to attract males. Males generally fly only in the early morning. [...] There is often a darker longitudinal stripe running over the body. The adult males are short lived and can be hard to spot. They are smaller than the females

Deltatrap

Use the Deltatrap for monitoring and trapping male moths and mealybugs in protected and outdoor crops in combination with a species-specific pheromone [...] The dispensers release a species-specific sex pheromone which lures the males of the particular pest into the trap. Once in the trap they get stuck in [...] in the glue and are easy to detect, count and identify. Trapping males also aids in reducing the number of eggs laid by females as they fail to mate. Pr

Vine mealybug

pupa stages are present only in the male. After a complete metamorphosis, a winged male emerges from the pupa. The male is smaller (1 mm), dark orange in

Spotted Wing Drosophila

lengthg, and have a wingspan of 6-8 mm. Males are smaller than females. They can be easily distinguished from males of other Drosophila species or SWD females

Lesser house fly

to animals or buildings, they are considered a serious pest because: The males form swarms above the ground at head height inside barns and hen houses, [...] ed to small flies with dark bodies and legs. When the flies mate, adult males will form swarms in areas with still air out of direct sunlight where they

Anagyrus vladimiri

banded antennae. The male is 0.8 mm in length and black in colour. Anagyrus vladimiri is arrhenotokous; virgin females produce male offspring only. The [...] lays a single egg in each host. Eggs laid in smaller hosts usually produce males. Prior to oviposition, the female parasitic wasp examines the host with its

Anthurium

protogynous, which means that the spadix is going through a female phase first. A male phase follows after about a month. Standard varieties of anthuriums are

Diamond back moth

of the wings appear to turn upward slightly when viewed from the side. In males, the upper two-thirds of the forewings are dark, sometimes suffused with [...] the forewings are light ochreous and the markings are like those of the males. The back is marked with a broad cream or light brown band along the back

Stable fly

house flies, but are lighter in colour and have biting mouth parts. Both male and female flies feed on animal blood, and females must be engorged with [...] house fly, females tend to be larger and have more widely spaced eyes than males. Females require a blood meal just prior to egg laying and never lay eggs

About bumblebees

start producing new queens and males (drones) in order for the colony to reproduce. These new queens will mate with males, leave the nest and the cycle