protected areas are major tourism assets for a nation, particularly for developing countries providing sustainable benefit to the local community while funding for the maintenance and rehabilitation of the protected areas themselves. valley of flowers national park is naturally meant for the conservation and study of western himalayan flora. it became national park in 1982 and after that livest...

Gypsy moth defoliation of oak trees has been shown to lead to increased tannin levels, which, in turn, lead to reduced gypsy moth growth and fecundity. In laboratory experiments, increased tannin levels can interfere with the transmission of a virus that is consumed by larvae on oak foliage, and high mortality rates of larvae in the field are sometimes associated with low levels of defoliation....

Many genes of large double-stranded DNA viruses have a cellular origin, suggesting that host-to-virus horizontal transfer (HT) of DNA is recurrent. Yet, the frequency of these transfers has never been assessed in viral populations. Here we used ultra-deep DNA sequencing of 21 baculovirus populations extracted from two moth species to show that a large diversity of moth DNA sequences (n = 86) ca...

Results After 80% ammonium sulphate precipitation, most of the proteins were recovered in 80% precitable fraction, 58.4% in moth and 71.2% in rice weevil. However, the recovery in supernatant was low 6.1% in rice weevil and 14.4 in moth extract. In ELISA inhibition of both the insect WBEs, most of the allergenic activity was recovered in 80% ammonium sulphate precipitate fraction (80% ppt). No ...

in 2005, during a survey on the biology of grape berry moth, lobesia botrana (denis & schiffermã¼ller) in nazlochay of urmia region, some damaged symptoms of another moth on the berries of grape were observed that caused by a coleophorid species determined as coleophora hemerobiella (scopoli). this species, which is newly reported from iran, also may be considered as a new pest of vineyards of ...