Distinctiveness And Potentials Of Two Flowering Roadside Hedgerows, Turnera Ulmifolia And Melastoma Malabathricum As Benefecial Plants For Iinsects

Nur-Athirah Abdullah and Faszly Rahim ()
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Nur-Athirah Abdullah: School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences. Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Faszly Rahim: Permata Insan College, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Bandar Baru Nilai, 71800, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Environment & Ecosystem Science (EES), 2018, vol. 2, issue 2, 6-10

Abstract: Beneficial flowering plants play a vital role in attracting beneficial insects such as parasitoid that controls insect pests. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of two species of flowering plants as beneficial hedgerow plants, we identify insects communities of T. ulmifolia and M. malabathricum, which generally grown on roadside. We also compared the insects community of both plants based on time of the day. A total of 5,029 insect individuals were collected through three sampling occasions from five sampling stations of T. ulmifolia and five sampling stations of M. malabathricum. Chi-square test showed that there was a significant difference (χ2=37.3848, df=1, P

Keywords: beneficial plants; beneficial insects; insect-plant interaction; parasitoid (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.26480/ees.02.2018.06.10

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