Insect pests are soft-bodied and tiny creatures with plant sap sucking habits that devastate various agricultural crops, fruit trees, ornamental plants several vegetables. To control these insect four IPM techniques were used in tomato field an aim to minimize the use of synthetic pesticides. Five colours sticky traps (yellow, green, blue, black red), different light trap (red, yellow, green wh...

Photo 1: The triple treat for southern Sierra white pines. Left: White pine blister rust aeciospores on whitebark pine. Top right: Mountain beetle pitch tubes in sugar Bottom Wildland fire. credit: Joan Dudney. 2: We surveyed four different species, all susceptible to impacts from rust, MPB, and From upper left, (Pinus albicaulis), western monticola; lower left), foxtail balfouriana; center), l...

There are recent faunistic surveys of selected insect taxa (e.g. Mutillidae, Scarabaeoidea, and Tenebrionidae) in Wisconsin but a formal investigation of the Meloidae (blister beetles) is lacking. The blister beetle fauna of several states has been published, but this study represents the first in the Midwestern United States. We provide a comprehensive list of all meloid species documented fro...

Climate suitability is projected to decline for many subalpine species, raising questions about managing species under a deteriorating climate. Whitebark pine (WBP) (Pinus albicaulis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) crystalizes the challenges that natural resource managers of many high mountain ecosystems will likely face in the coming decades. We review the system of interactions am...

Cantharidin (CTD) is a natural toxin in beetles of the Mylabris genus (blister beetle), which has been revealed to induce cell death in various types of human cancer cells. However, to the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have investigated the effect of CTD on the expression of genes and their associated signaling pathways in human bladder carcinoma cells. In the present study, CTD-in...

Blister beetles are an important object of study in the field agriculture and health. Despite being known to be for host animal, gut bacteria blister have not been investigated deeply. This aimed provide first initial description bacterial community Mylabris pustulata as one species beetles, based on a culture-independent technique. Adult same colony were sampled confirmed Thunberg. The content...