The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) is researching an Area-Wide Integrated Pest Management (AW-IPM) strategy against sugarcane thrips, Fulmekiola serrata (Kobus) (Thysanoptera: Thripidae). Unique monitoring techniques successfully implemented provided faunal complexes that might include natural enemies within leaf spindles. Twentyeight Thysanoptera taxa from three families, n...

The soils of the central Oregon pumice plateau are relatively young and infertile, yet support an array of plant diversity and growth in the region’s pine forests. Whether these coarsetextured, pumice and ash soils are resilient to forest disturbance is not well understood. We present results from a long-term experiment that examined changes in soil quality in response to combinations of thinni...

The genus Callinectes Stimpson, 1860 currently consists of 16 species, six of which are reported in Brazilian coast. In the present study, the first zoeal stages of Callinectes bocourti, C. danae, C. exasperatus, C. ornatus and C. sapidus from Brazil were obtained from ovigerous females. The morphological and meristic characters of all these larval stages are described and illustrated. Those of...

Amaç: Defne (Laurus nobilis L.) Hatay ilinde yaygın olarak yetişen, sabit ve uçucu yağı tıbbi kozmetik sanayinde kullanılan ekonomik öneme sahip bir bitkidir. Bu çalışma defne ağaçlarında sorun zararlı böcek türlerinin yanısıra zararlıların olası doğal düşman türlerin belirlemek, böylece defnede zararlılardan kaynaklanabilecek verim kalite kaybının engellenmesine yönelik mücadele programlarına ...

From April to December 2007, experimental trawls (n = 44, 4 to 22 m depth) were made off the mouth of the Rio Baluarte ecosystem (MRB) and compared to experimental trawls (n = 54, 7 to 40 m) in the adjacent offshore region (AOR) from 2002 to 2007. For both ecosystems, a total of 143 species belonging to 5 phyla were collected. Fishes comprised ca. 80% of the bycatch biomass, while molluscs and ...

Çalışmada, en önemli unlubit avcılarından biri olan Nephus includens Kirsch (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)’in, bağların zararlılarından Planococcus ficus (Signoret) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)’un farklı dönemleri üzerindeki tüketim kapasitesi ve dönem tercihi araştırılmıştır. Denemeler 25 ± 1 ºC sıcaklık, %60 10 nem 16:8 (aydınlık/karanlık) koşullarındaki iklim kabinlerinde yürütülmüştür. N. inclu...

The role of methionine enkephalin (ME) neurons in the development of genetic hypertension in SHR is the subject of this study. Methionine enkephalin-like immunoreactivity (MELI) and ME receptor binding (MERB) levels were assayed quantitatively by microdensitometry of fluorescence micrographs and autoradiographs of 85 cerebral nuclei and areas of both young and adult spontaneously hypertensive r...

With the aim of creating an inventory of the metazoan gill parasites of Salminus hilarii in the Taquari River, state of São Paulo, Brazil, five species of monogeneans (Anacanthorus contortus, A. bicuspidatus, Annulotrematoides parisellei, Jainus iocensis and Tereancistrum arcuatus) are reported the first time for this host. A total of 28 fish were sampled quarterly between April 2011 and Januar...