Background: Blackgram (Vigna mungo L.) is an important pulse crop occupying a unique position in Indian agriculture and it stands fourth area production among the pulses. The popularity of this due to its nutritional industrial values. attacked by number insect pests from sowing harvest field as well storage condition. Among these insects-pests pod borers i.e. spotted borer, Maruca vitrata (Gey...

The striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), is the most abundant stem borer of rice Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) in temperate Asia. Chilo suppressalis also occurs throughout the tropical rice-growing areas of Asia, where it is generally second in abundance to the yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) (Pathak & Khan, 1994). Ste...

This is the first report of the sipunculan Aspidosiphon (Aspidosiphon) elegans (Chamisso & Eysenhardt, 1821) in the tropical eastern Pacific. With this species the number of coral borers rises to 18 for this region. The upogebiidid crustacean Pomatogebia rugosa (Lockington, 1878) was reported previously (as Upogebia rugosa) from coral colonies in the Gulf of California, Mexico, and from coral r...

The ectoparasitic mite Pyemotes tritici (Lagrèze-Fossat & Montané) (Acari: Pyemotidae) caused paralysis and reduced longevity in eucalyptus longhorned borer, Phoracantha semipunctata F., under laboratory rearing conditions. Application of dusting sulfur to logs that contained pupating borers greatly reduced densities of mites on emerging adult beetles and increased beetle survivorship. Uniform ...