The stored-product insects are one of the major causes losses in stored cereals. Most control measures still rely on a synthetic pesticide usage, but due to its negative side effects goods, human health, and environment, there is an urgent need for alternative control. A natural formulation based diatomaceous earth (DE) SilicoSec®, enhanced with botanicals (essential oil lavender, corn oil, bay...

Medicinal and aromatic plants have popular recently to investigate their usability as natural resources in many areas due superior biological activity properties. Hypericum genus contained important medicinal plant species known worldwide. In this study, the ethanol extracts from different parts (flower, leaf stem) of three perforatum, heterophyllum, scabrum were screened for toxicity against a...

Seagrass beds are the largest organism-built marine habitat in Dominica, yet have only been surveyed since 2007. Standardized examinations along a depth gradient between 0 and 24 m, focusing on magnoliophyte species composition and benthic cover of shoots at 17 seagrass bed sites, were carried out between September 10 and December 7, 2008. The Cymodoceaceae Syringodium filiforme (Kuetzing 1860)...

The new micro-dolichopodid genus Haromyia gen. nov. and the type species H. iviei sp. nov. are described from the island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles. Males and females of Haromyia are distinguished by the large setae on a bulging clypeus, minute size, and wing veins that are nearly straight and evenly diverging from wing base. Haromyia does not fit readily into any contemporary dolichopo...

Department Marine and Environmental Sciences, Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, FL, United States, 2 Instituto de Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil, 3 Experimental Marine Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, 4 School of Life...