Lepidopterism by Hylesia nigricans (Berg) moth is recorded for the first time in southern Brazil. Preventive strategies of control are proposed based on information on the biology and ecology of this moth. kEy wORDS: Dermatitis, host-plant, southern Brazil, urticating moth The genus Hylesia hübner is exclusively Neotropical and comprises approximately 100 species of moths (Lamy et al. 1984). at...

The physical absorption has been experimentally investigated in a bubble column for to determination of volumetric mass transfer coefficients referred to the liquid phase, kLa, and quantify the effect of the viscosity of the absorbent solution on the same, operating in continuous and batch regime with respect to the liquid phase. The variables studied in the process have been the physical prope...

Entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana is widely used as the microbial pesticide (biological control agent) in agriculture and many studies are reported that Beauveria also possesses active secondary metabolites which are medicinally significant. The present study is to assay the antiviral, anticancer and anti-inflammatory activity of metabolites from B. bassiana local isolate that is extra...

Understanding how the brain extracts the behavioral meaning carried by specific vocalization types that can be emitted by various vocalizers and in different conditions is a central question in auditory research. This semantic categorization is a fundamental process required for acoustic communication and presupposes discriminative and invariance properties of the auditory system for conspecifi...