BACKGROUND Fast onset and short duration are prominent properties of the amide-type local anaesthetic articaine. Similar to bupivacaine, a hyperbaric solution of articaine may produce faster onset and shorter duration of spinal anaesthesia than a plain solution. METHODS Patients undergoing open inguinal hernia repair received in random order articaine 84 mg in either hyperbaric (HyperA, n=49)...

Domestic sheep (Ovis spp.) grazing is emerging as an integrated pest management tactic for alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), management and a degree-day model is needed as a decision and support tool. In response to this need, grazing exclosures with unique degree-days and stocking rates were established at weekly intervals in a central Montana alfalfa field during 2008 and 2009. Anal...

A total of 17 species of the Fannia postica-group Chillcott, 1961 from the Palearctic and Oriental regions are reviewed herein, 2 of which are described from China as new: Fannia ningxiaensis Wang & Zhang, sp. n. and Fannia subaethiops Wang & Zhu, sp. n.. Fannia labidocerca Feng & Xue, 2006, originally placed in Fannia serena-group Chillcott, 1961, is moved to the postica-group and re-described...

Fig. 1 Gonometa postica: Moth, opened and entire cocoon. from rumen impaction in the North-Western Cape. Similar losses, reported by Edwards I from the Northern Transvaal in 1935, were caused by cocoons of the moth Gonometa rufubrennea. A related moth of the same genus, Gonometa postica (Walker) (fig. 1) occurs in the North-Western Cape, namely north of an imaginary line drawn from Mafeking to ...