- Industry: Agriculture
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A collection apparatus used to catch arthropods. Made up of funnels containing a piece of screen or hardware cloth, with a light heating system mounted above and a collecting jar below provided with alcohol to catch small arthropods that escape and fall from material that is placed on the screen.
Industry:Agriculture
A point of reference for measurements as in topographical surveys and land leveling.
Industry:Agriculture
Organisms living at the bottom of a water body, crawling or burrowing into the detritus and sediment; those on the surface are the epibenthos, and those beneath are the endobenthos.
Industry:Agriculture
A method of planting in which seed is planted on beds. Often two or more seed rows are planted on each bed.
Industry:Agriculture
Preparing a series of flat-topped parallel ridges usually no wider than two crop rows, separated by shallow trenches usually less than the width between crop rows.
Industry:Agriculture
1). (General) The essential ingredient, the foundation of a construction, bottom of a plant or any part of a structure and the part of an appendage nearest the body in arthropods. 2). Chemical group or substance having the property of accepting a proton (H+) from water to release OH-. 3). In DNA and RNA, the general term given to adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), uracil (U), and thymine (T), the five N-containing compounds released from nucleic acids by vigorous hydrolysis.
Industry:Agriculture
