Laboratory studies were carried out to compare the toxicity of seven foliar insecticides to four species of adult beneficial insects representing two families of Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae (Aphytis melinus Debach, Eretmocerus eremicus Rose & Zolnerowich, and Encarsiaformosa Gahan) and Mymaridae (Gonatocerus ashmeadi Girault) that attack California red scale, Aonidiella aurantii (Maskell); sweetpo...

The egg parasitoid Telenomus fariai Costa Lima (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), is reported for the first time in Veracruz, Mexico. was discovered 2019 during a field collection of Triatoma dimidiata L. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), representing report its association with Tr. This species here redescribed and sequencing portion cytochrome oxidase 1 gene (COI) performed to facilitate future identificatio...

We characterized the dynamics of mortality factors affecting immature developmental stages of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Multiple decrement life tables for egg and early larval stages of S. frugiperda in maize (Zea mays L.) fields were developed with and without augmentative releases of Telenomus remus Nixon (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from...

Parasitoid wasps inject their eggs into host along with virulent factors to manipulate hosts physiology and immune system. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are as molecular chaperones and stress proteins induced by heat, cold, anoxia and parasitism. There was no report about the roles of HSP in insect eggs against egg parasitoids. Here, we studied the expression profiles of several HSPs in silkworm e...