TO THE EDITOR—We thank Professor Meshnick [1] and Dr Hastings and colleagues [2] for their interest in our publication [3]. Professor Meshnick believes that attempts to contain artemisinin resistance are futile because " all genetic evidence currently suggests that the K13 mutations pop up multiple times, independently , in different locations and are not spread spatially. " However, a very lim...

Surveys conducted on horsetails, Equisetum spp. (Equisetaceae), in Serbia led to the discovery of a new eriophyoid mite genus while searching for a classical biological control agent against these weeds in New Zealand. Eriocaenus gen. n. is described based on the type species Aceria equiseti Farkas, 1960 (transferred to Eriophyes by Farkas 1965; herein reassigned to the new genus) and Eriocaenu...

Nine eriophyoid mites, including two new species and five new records, from Iran are described and illustrated. They are Aceria acroptiloni Shevchenko & Kacalev, 1974, rec. n. on Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo (Asteraceae); Aceria anthocoptes (Nalepa, 1892), rec. n. on Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. (Asteraceae); Aceria lactucae (Canestrini, 1893), rec. n. on Lactuca virosa L. (Asteraceae); Aceria...

Geocoris punctipes (Say) and Orius insidiosus (Say) are generalist predators found in a wide range of crops, including cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.), where they provide important biological control services by feeding on an array of pests, including eggs and small larvae of caterpillars. A high percentage of cotton and maize in the United States and several other countr...

The reason for this study was to compare the morphology of mites from three Japanese samples with topotypes Nalepa collection, in order correctly identify them. With purpose eriophyoid specimens were recovered five vials mite collection Natural History Museum Vienna. We identified seven species and a new combination is established one them - Aceria thomasi Aculops thymi, two labeled Thymus serp...