Since Taiwan became a World Trade Organization member in 2002, large quantities of grain have been imported from different countries, and insect pests are frequently intercepted from these imported commodities in quarantine inspection. Because most insects are intercepted as immature forms, morphological identification is problematic; therefore, we developed a DNA identification method based on...

In order to improve the recognition rate and accuracy of stored grain pests classification, saving classification time, a new recognition method based on the Gabor wavelet and sparse representation is proposed in this paper. In this paper, nine typical pests in the stored grain are regarded as the research object, Gabor energy features and morphological features are extracted, principal compone...

The insecticidal activity of a proprietary diatomaceous earth, Detech, and methyl eugenol was tested with Sitophilus granarius (L., 1758), zeamais Motschulsky, 1855 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Rhyzopertha dominica (Fabricius, 1792) Bostrychidae), Tribolium confusum Jaquelin Du Val, 1868 Tenebrionidae) adults at Stored Products Pest Laboratory Plant Protection Central Research Institute (Ankara...

a fundamental shift to a total system approach for crop management in greenhouses is urgently needed to resolve escalating economic and environmental consequences of long-lasting undesired effects of synthetic pesticides used in combating agricultural pests. the aim of this study was to examine a potential new approach i.e. microbial-based production system (mps) for greenhouse-grown peppers. f...