during the visits of common reed [phragmites australis (cav.) trin. ex steud] in different locations of west azerbaijan province during 2015–16, symptoms of fungal infections was frequently observed. among the isolated and studied fungi, deightoniella arundinacea (corda) s. hughes was commonly observed. based on available literatures, this species was found new to mycobiota of iran.

following the appearance of a quarantine pest, tomato leaf miner, tuta absoluta (povolny), in europe, monitoring of this species in iran was started by the cooperation of the plant protection organization of iran and the iranian research institute of plant protection. according to the surveys, the first emergence of this pest was detected in october 2010 in azerbaijan-e-gharbi province.

Predicting of inflow discharge to reservoir dams is very important in achieving the purposes reservoirs water planning. Due climate change and human activities upstream basins recent years, time series data has generally had downward trend. Therefore, estimating different statistical periods (long-term, medium-term short-term) analyzing it selection project undeniable importance. In this study,...

sphecidae is a large and important family of hymenoptera. all members of this family are presocial predators of other arthropods and play a role in the control of pest complex. in this study, sphecids were collected from east azerbaijan province using sweep net, malaise traps and yellow pan traps. twenty species of the family sphecidae (hymenoptera), belonging to subfamilies pemphredoninae, ast...