As the ratio of (E)-8-dodecenyl acetate (E8-12.Ac) to (Z)-8-dodecenyl acetate (28-12.A~) increased past optimal low levels in the pheromone blend, fewer males were able to fly 2 5 m upwind to the source The tracks of males that flew in plumes of such high-(E) off-blends were slower and narrower than those of males flying to lower-(E) blends. The tracks were narrower, first of all, because as th...

Textile industries are one of the major contaminators of water and soil. Sodium is the only major cation present in textile wastewater due to high consumption of sodium salts in processing units. Many aquatic macrophytes are successfully used for phytoremediation of contaminated water. An attempt has been made to test the potential of Salvinia molesta in reduction of sodium from textile effluen...

Aquatic macrophytes have been used for the removal of antibiotics from contaminated water. Here, we studied capacity Lemna minor and Salvinia molesta to reclaim ciprofloxacin (1.5 µg Cipro L−1) and/or sulfamethoxazole (0.3 Sulfa artificially waters when plants were exposed in monoculture (L. or S. molesta) mixed culture + molesta). Neither nor alone induced negative effects on plants. As shown ...

The widely distributed water fern Azolla was investigated for use as an amendment in the bioremediation of fuel-contaminated environments. In a field experiment Azolla pinnata as well as Pistia stratiotes and Salvinia molesta were applied to plots containing soil that had been surface-contaminated with diesel fuel (2.4 L m(-2)) and flooded with water. The plants quickly died and bacterial flocs...

A tractor-mounted mechanized applicator was developed for large-scale deployment of paraffin-wax dispensers of pheromone for mating disruption of oriental fruit moth, Grapholita molesta (Busck). The wax formulation was mostly water and emulsified paraffin wax containing 5% (by weight) pheromone [93:6:1 blend of (Z)-8-dodecen-1-yl-acetate:(E)-8-dodecen-1-yl-acetate: (Z)-8-dodecen-1-ol]. Ten mill...