The objective of this study was to evaluate the functional response of Orius insidiosus preying on the third and fourth instars of Aphis gossypii nymphs that were reared on transgenic NuOPAL (Bollgard I Event 531) and conventional Buriti cotton varieties. Fifty O. insidiosus female bugs aged 12–24h were distributed into five different Petri dishes with different densities of A. gossypii (2, 4, ...

The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) is researching an Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) strategy against sugarcane thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Unique monitoring techniques successfully implemented provided faunal complexes that might include natural enemies within leaf spindles. Twentyeight Thysanoptera taxa from three families, n...

References [1] Leonidas Fegaras. A new heuristic for optimizing large queries. [2] Toshihide Ibaraki and Tiko Kameda. On the optimal nesting order for computing n-relational joins. Optimizing large join queries using a graph-based approach. [5] Guido Moerkotte and Thomas Neumann. Analysis of two existing and one new dynamic programming algorithm for the generation of optimal bushy join trees wi...

References [1] Leonidas Fegaras. A new heuristic for optimizing large queries. [2] Toshihide Ibaraki and Tiko Kameda. On the optimal nesting order for computing n-relational joins. Optimizing large join queries using a graph-based approach. [5] Guido Moerkotte and Thomas Neumann. Analysis of two existing and one new dynamic programming algorithm for the generation of optimal bushy join trees wi...