Interactions between stored product pest insects and their parasitoids are well known to be mediated by infochemicals. However, little knowledge is available about the extent which parasitoid responses host kairomones improve search parasitization success. Here, we tested whether release of host-specific confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum , improves finding larval ectoparasitoid Holepyri...

The main purpose of this paper is to consider the t-best simultaneousapproximation in fuzzy normed spaces. We develop the theory of t-bestsimultaneous approximation in quotient spaces. Then, we discuss the relationshipin t-proximinality and t-Chebyshevity of a given space and its quotientspace.

Specific IgE to proteins from Tribolium confusum (TC), a flour beetle, was detected in 9/125 sera of subjects exposed to rye and wheat flour. TC RAST was not inhibited by Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, rye or wheat flour. Immunoblot experiments showed specific binding to three proteins from adult TC or pupae, not present in rye or wheat flour. These findings suggest that TC might act as an occ...