A nested polymerase chain reaction protocol yielded positive detection of the maternally inherited cytoplasmic proteobacterium Wolbachia in total genomic DNA from coffee berry borers collected in Benin, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Uganda. Wolbachia was not detected in specimens from Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Jamaica, ...

Is there a wood-feeding insect inside tree or wooden structure? We investigate several ways of how deep learning approaches can massively scan recordings vibrations stemming from probed trees to infer their infestation state with wood-boring insects that feed and move wood. The come remotely controlled devices sample the internal soundscape on 24/7 basis wirelessly transmit brief registered clo...

Bioerosion is the destruction of hard substrates resulting from biological activity, and plays a relevant role in ecological interactions coastal dynamics processes. Several organisms have evolved structures behaviors allowing them to perforate biotic abiotic surfaces, transforming surfaces into particles, contributing significantly sediment production marine environment. Due large geographical...

An adequate service life of wooden structures in the sea is ensured only: If wood is treated with biocide wood preservatives with high retention level or; If some tropical hardwoods, with known natural resistance, are used. However, the poor public image of use the tropical hardwoods, as contribution to deforestation at one hand and legal requirements to restrict the use of biocide preservative...