Bu çalışma, Erzurum (Atatürk Üniversitesi Kampüsü)’da 2016 ve 2017 yıllarının mayıs-eylül ayları arasında Karaağaç (Ulmus glabra Hudson) bitkisinde yoğun olarak zararına rastlanan Tinocallis (sappocallis) saltans (Nevsky, 1929) (Hemiptera: Aphididae)’ın popülasyon değişimi predatörlerini tespit etmek amacıyla yürütülmüştür. Türkiye’de bu karaağaç türü üzerinde T. ilk kez çalışma ile belirlenmiş...

The article reconstructs the illustrating history of “La Revue Blanche”, leading French literary and artistic magazine fin de siècle epoch. Leaving out analysis content, authors considers petite revue through prism its most significant achievements. In order to achieve this goal, a rather wide range graphic artists who collaborated with Blanche” at one time or another is outlined, conditional g...

During the last few years, DNA barcoding has become an efficient method for the identification of species. In the case of insects, most published DNA barcoding studies focus on species of the Ephemeroptera, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera and especially Lepidoptera. In this study we test the efficiency of DNA barcoding for true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), an ecological and economical highly importa...

MARIJUANA'S BILL OF HEALTH While the War on Drugs is fought out on the high seas and in the coastal swamps and in the big cities, another war against drugs goes forward in the government-subsidized laboratories where countless scientists have labored for years to discover whether marijuana damages the brain or some other part of the human body. The number of these studies, experiments and proje...

Bradley J. Cardinale*, Chad T. Harvey, Kevin Gross and Anthony R. Ives Department of Zoology, University of WisconsinMadison, Madison, WI 53706, USA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract The suppression of agricultural pests has often been proposed as an important service of natural enemy diversity, but few experiments have test...

predatory damsel bug, nabis pseudoferus remane has a high density in the alfalfa fields and feeds on different types of prey. in this study, biological properties and life table statistics of n. pseudoferus by feeding on melon aphids have been determined under controlled conditions (at 25±1˚c, 60±10% relative humidity and under a photoperiod of 16h light/ 8h dark). data analysis carried out bas...

Field studies were conducted from 1997 to 1999 to contrast the effects of two insect growth regulators (IGRs) and conventional insecticides on natural enemy conservation in cotton within the context of alternative management strategies for Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). Compared with an untreated control, insecticide regimes based on the initial use of the IGR buprofezin or pyriproxyfen reduced de...