Several species of Orius Wolff are used in biological control of thrips in protected cultivations in temperate regions, but some of them show reproductive diapause, compromising the efficiency of these agents of biological control. There are no reports on the biology of the neotropical species Orius thyestes Herring under different environmental conditions. The purpose of this work was to inves...

Abstract Background Augmentative biological control is a crucial component of Integrated Pest Management, and Orius laevigatus Fieber (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) an important predator used commercially. However, the two-sex life table parameters O. on Planoccocus citri Risso , P. solenopsis Tinsley Pseudococcidae) have not been fully characterised. This study aimed to assess potential and, as pre...

The predatory bug, Orius laevigatus (Fieber, 1860) (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae), is an important biological control agent and widely used for augmentative of the western flower thrips, Frankliniella occidentalis Pergande, 1895 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in greenhouse crops. This bug generally reared using Mediterranean flour moth, Ephestia kuehniella Zeller, 1879 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). aim this ...

Ephestia kuehniella üretiminde uygun besin kullanılması kitle üretim için oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmada kuehniella’nın bazı biyolojik özellikleri kontrol (500 g buğday unu, +500 kepeği), ve besinde unu miktarı sabit tutularak oluşturulan 1 nolu (250 kepeği +250 mısır unu), 2 (225 +225 + 50 balık 3 (213 +212 75 nbalık 4 (200 +200 100 unu) 5 (188 +188 125 6 (175 +175 150 besinlerde karşılaştırı...

Structuring the information and knowledge needed to implement a factory, as well as doing its control and management by computer systems, is the purpose of the meta-model and solutions here presented. This meta-model includes: an object-oriented model to structure the needed information and knowledge; a model for manufacturing systems; a prototype that integrates the two previously referred mod...

Intraspecific competition and food shortage due to high population density during early life can have a profound effect on adult fitness. Organisms often mitigate negative effects of by adjusting resource allocation morphological life-history traits. In Lepidoptera with short-lived adults that do not feed, it is predicted females developed from dense larval aggregations invest more in reproduct...