Two new species of spinturnicid mites of the genus Periglischrus are described and illustrated from phyllostomid bats from southeastern Mexico: The female, male, and protonymph of Periglischrus steresotrichus, new species, from Tonatia evotis Davis & Carter, and the female and male of Periglischrus eurysternus, new species, from Tonatia saurophila Koopman & Williams. A supplementary description...

background and purpose: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache ii) is a scoring system that describes and predicts the severity of acute illness in patients admitted in intensive care units. its application is helpful in therapeutic monitoring methods, comparing the effectiveness of treatments and the decision to change the treatment, and comparing the performance and quality of...

A study was conducted during 2009-10 to assess the toxicity of chloroform extracts of Pogostemon parviflorus (Benth.) and Polygonum hydropiper (L) against red spider mite (Oigonychus coffeae, Neitner) under laboratory condition using leaf detached method. Both the plant extracts possesed the acaricidal properties on developmental stages of red spider mite. The treatment with both plant extracts...

abstract nymphal survival and crawlers movement of bemisia tabaci (homoptera: aleyrodidae) on different varieties of cotton, gossypium hirsutum, was studied on 5 different varieties including, varamin, kucker-312, bulgar-557, sahel-80, and native (red leaf/red boll) at 24±2 °c, 65±5% rh, 16:8 (l: d) photoperiod in the greenhouse condition. crawlers' movement was significantly different on the v...

Background: Infant mortality is important as a standard indicator for the development of health, educational and social health systems in each country. Considering the fact that in different studies of the country there are different statistics on the prevalence of infant mortality in the intensive care unit and the general statistics on the prevalence of mortality in neonates in the country ar...

The present work is a study on the post-embryonic development of oribatid mite Striatoppia milii from family Oppidae. specimens were reared under laboratory conditions at relative humidity 80±2% and temperature 27±2 °C. During time, both adult immature forms S. fed microfungus Trichoderma harzianum. total developmental duration life stages egg to was 21.4±1.5 days with five active instars: larv...