Bio-insecticidal effects of seven Chinese medicinal herbs on mortality, fecundity, developmental periods and life table parameters of the grape phylloxera were investigated. In an excised root bioassay experiment aqueous extracts from seven Chinese medicinal herbs increased grape phylloxera first instar mortality (26.00-38.50%) compared to other instars. The intrinsic rate of increase (rm), fin...

during a survey on pests of pine trees, pinus mugo turra, in april 2010 in mashhad, a colony of an aphid was observed in abundant populations on the seedlings, belongs to the subfamily cinarinae and family lachnidae, being identified as cinara pini (linnaeus, 1758). the blast sequence to c. pini in the gene bank showed that the species was most similar to c. atlantica with 93% similarity. the m...

The notion of a potential-growth indicator came to being in the field matrix population models long ago, almost simultaneously with pioneering Leslie model for age-structured dynamics, although term has been given and theory developed only recent years. represents an explicit function, R(L), L elements indicates position spectral radius relative 1 on real axis, thus signifying growth, or declin...

the sub-lethal effect of metarhizium anisopliae and imidacloprid as well as combination of the two control agents was examined on life table parameters of myzus persicae on different cultivars of canola under laboratory condition at 25 ± 1 ºc, 85% rh and photoperiod of 16l: 8d. the offspring resulting from fungus-infested adults were placed onto leaf discs in petri dishes separately to record t...

The life table and consumption rate of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) reared on asparagus, Asparagus officinalis L. (Asparagales: Asparagaceae) were studied under laboratory conditions to assess their interaction. Development, survival, fecundity, and consumption data were analyzed by the age-stage, twosex life table. This study indicated that asparagus is a natural host...

The life table parameters of Macrosiphum rosae L. (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on five vermicompost-tea (tea-compost) concentrations (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%) and control treatment (0%) on Rosa hybrida L. were determined under laboratory conditions. There were significant differences among pre-imaginal period and adult longevity of the aphid on the five teacompost concentrations. The highest mortalit...

The timing of reproduction is a key determinant of Ž tness. Here, we develop parameterized integral projection models of size-related  owering for the monocarpic perennial Oenothera glazioviana and use these to predict the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) for  owering. For the most part there is excellent agreement between the model predictions and the results of quantitative Ž eld studie...

Aspects of Biosteres arisanus (Sonan) (= Opius oophilus Fullaway) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) development on the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera (= Dacus) dorsalis (Hendel), were investigated to facilitate mass production in the insectary. Life table statistics were generated for cohorts of B. arisanus females. Overlap in the emergence of fruit flies and parasitoids necessitated a procedure for se...

The genus Adelphocoris (Hemiptera: Miridae) is a group of important insect pests of Bt cotton in China. The three dominant species are A. lineolatus, A. suturalis, and A. fasciaticollis, and these species have different population dynamics. The causal factors for the differences in population dynamics have not been determined; one hypothesis is that humidity may be important for the growth of A...

A class of virus dynamics model with intracellular delay and nonlinear infection rate of Beddington-DeAngelis functional response is analysed in this paper. By constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals and using LaSalle type theorem for delay differential equations, we show that the global stability of the infection-free equilibrium and the infected equilibrium depends on the basic reproductiv...