The article presents an assessment of the biological effectiveness biorational insectoacaricides based on abamectin and emamectin benzoate – metabolites soil actinomycetes, to protect grapes from pests. We studied new drugs: Mekar, ME (18 g/l abamectin) Mabet, EC against Schizotetranychus pruni ; Yunona, (50 benzoate), Emakleim, VRG benzoate) Proclame Fit, WDG (400 g/kg lufenuron + 50 emamectin...

e m e rgency and later when the situation s t a b i l i z e s .2 As part of the Minimum Initial Service Package, the field manual re commends that steps be taken during the initial crisis period to prevent and manage the consequences of sexual violence, including providing emergency contraception. Once the situation has stabilized, the field manual calls for more complete re p roductive health ...

Trachymolgus purpureus Fisher & Dowling sp. n. is described from the Ozark highlands of North America. A diversity of imaging techniques are used to illustrate the species including low-temperature scanning electron microscopy (LT-SEM), stereomicrography, compound light micrography, and digitally created line drawings. Developmental stages (larva, nymphs, and adult) and morphology are illustrat...

The practice of handmade silk weaving has disappeared from much of the world, but continues to be practiced by thousands of people in Northeastern Thailand. However, as the Thai economy becomes increasingly embedded into global flows and networks of commodities, capital and culture, there are worries that silk weaving as a practice will either cease to be reproduced or will have to radically ch...

during a faunistic survey on mites associated with fruit trees in birjand region (south khorasan province) in 2010, specimens of two injurious mites were collected. using literature, specimens were identified and confirmed by dr. o. seeman (australia). as a result, two species, namely schizotetranychus sayedi attiah, 1967 collected from fig, almond, grape, apple and apricot in fodaj, alghorat, ...