Ethnobiology is the science that identifies, describes, and classifies organisms with a cultural importance are utilized by particular human group. The term ‘cultural importance’ refers to way people perceive an organism either as food or ornament, role they play in myths legends region even their usage religious civic ceremonies. Despite high biological diversity of Acari, has been poorly stud...

A longitudinal study design was employed to collect Stomoxys flies between January, 2010 and December, 2011 from three different agro ecological settings, Sebeta, Debre Zeit and Fentale Districts, Ethiopia using vavoua traps. The study on the trapped Stomoxys flies was carried out with the aims of identification of Stomoxys species and comparison of the distribution, seasonality and relative ab...

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) is a modern powerful technique that can be used for studying the external and internal anatomy of arthropods. CLSM has seldom been used in acarology and very rarely for studying eriophyoid mites. It allows the capture of precise digital images of the fine details of external and internal chitinous structures, which can be further analysed using various ...

to identify the mite species associated with food products in mashhad, a variety of stored food products were visited and sampled during years 2011 and 2012. storage mites were extracted by means of berlese-tullgreen funnel. mite specimens were cleared using lactic acid or nesbit’s fluid. using hoyer’s medium, cleared specimens were mounted as permanent microscopic slides. specimens were identi...

Transovarial transmission of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in Ixodes ricinus (L., 1758), its vector tick species, has been shown both experimentally and epidemiologically to be one of the important modes of long-term virus circulation in a natural focus (Benda R. 1958: J. Hyg. Epidemiol. Microbiol. Immunol. (Prague) 2: 314-330; Řeháček J. 1962: Acta Virol. 6: 220-226; Danielová V., Holubo...

Soil is an important component for monitoring of sustainability of land use in relation to both the conservation of natural resources and biodiversity of ecosystems. Recently research has focused on the role of mites (Acari) in biomonitoring and their importance as soil bioindicators. Mite communities are extremely sensitive to all types of soil disturbance. This article presents a review of so...