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Threatened species, or those at the limit of their biogeographic range include Stephanomeria runcinata, Atriplex powellii, Orobanche ludoviciana, A. suckleyi, Oryzopsis micrantha, Lupinus pusillus, Plantago elongata, Muhlenbergia racemosa, Erigonium cernuum and Antennaria dimorpha.
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The Cape Cross Seal Reserve is located within this area and protects one of the largest colonies of Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) in southern Africa.
Namib desert 2008
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Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives).
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Dwarf epauleted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus).
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Six different kinds of woodpeckers and four kingfishers were found here, the fine hornbill, Buceros lunatus, more than four feet long, and the pretty little lorikeet, Loriculus pusillus, scarcely more than as many inches.
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In this regard, the effects of different cropping systems on the whitefly predator Delphastus pusillus (Le Conte) and on the combined action of the parasitoids Amitus aleurodinus Haldeman and Eretmocerus aleyrodiphaga
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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D. pusillus was never observed on the associated crops, suggesting that they did not provide nectar or pollen to this bettle.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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The predator D. pusillus was low in numbers during the intercrop period and was significantly lower in cassava-cowpea plots than in other treatments for much of the trial.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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In this regard, the effects of different cropping systems on the whitefly predator Delphastus pusillus (Le Conte) and on the combined action of the parasitoides Amitus aleurodinus Haldeman and Eretmocerus aleyrodiphaga
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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D. pusillus attacks a range of whitefly species, but within the systems employed in this study it can be considered a relative specialist because neither cowpea nor maize provided alternative hosts.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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