Arthropod - a subphylum of the animal kingdom that includes insects, millipedes, centipedes, crustaceans, spiders, and a few other extinct or rare critters. Biocontrol - the use of beneficial insects (either predatory or parasitic) to control pests.  It is an environmentally responsible method of controlling pests.  We supply several biocontrol agents to meet your pest control needs. Diapause - a state of rest.  Like hibernation in mammals.  Organisms in diapause use certain cues like temperature and light to activate it and deactivate it.  Therefore, you must maintain environmental conditions acceptable for activity. Mummies - Aphid carcasses that have a developing parasitic wasp inside. Parasite - an organism that lives off another animal, but does not generally kill it. Parasitoid - a arthropod that kills its hosts.  A parasite does not kill its host. Pupa, Pupae (plural) - A developmental stage of an insect that is between the larva and the adult.  In butterfies, it's the stage inside the chrysalis or cocoon. spp. - an abbreviation for species, also sp. for singular. var. - an abbreviation for variety.  It applies to a variation of the species.

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