introduction: pest and disease problem with the extension of fruit orchards, becomes a serious and restricted factor for orchard growers. most of the scale insect of cold region fruit trees in iran belongto family diaspididae. one of the most important pests in the fruit orchards of chaharmahal and bakhtiari province are scale insects. hall scale, mercetaspis halli (green) (hemiptera: diaspidid...

This study compared an integrated pest management (IPM) program with conventional, calendar-based pest control in nine North Carolina elementary schools. Both programs primarily targeted the German cockroach, Blattella germanica (L.). The IPM program relied heavily on monitoring and baiting, whereas the conventional approach used baseboard and crack-and-crevice sprays of insecticides. Within th...

Monitoring the number of insect pests is a crucial component in pheromone-based pest management systems. In this paper, we propose an automatic detection pipeline based on deep learning for identifying and counting pests in images taken inside field traps. Applied to a commercial codling moth dataset, our method shows promising performance both qualitatively and quantitatively. Compared to prev...

The coconut bug, Pseudotheraptus wayi Brown (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae), is a serious pest of a number of crops in Eastern and Southern Africa. Both adults and nymphal stages are destructive because they suck sap from their hosts. The identity of the pest is currently based exclusively on the description of adults. This paper describes eggs and instars of P. wayi, with the goal to enhanc...

Nurnicia viridis Muir, otherwise known as the green leaf-sucker, is an important pest of sugarcane in South Africa (Anon.',"; Dick). It is capable of causing considerable damage to this crop and has therefore been the subject of repeated pest population surveys. Studies of its life history, pest-host plant-relationships and means of biological control, are all currently receiving considerable a...

Pest management involves assessment of pest and crop biology at the population level and an understand'mg of the interaction of organisms at the molecular, cellular, tissue, plant, and population levels. These interactions frequently are sufficiently complex to require simphfication through modeling to allow objective management decisions. The disciplinary orientation of pest scientists often r...

BACKGROUND Passenger ships provide conditions suitable for the survival and growth of pest populations. Arthropods and rodents can gain access directly from the ships' open spaces, can be carried in shiploads, or can be found on humans or animals as ectoparasites. Vectors on board ships may contaminate stored foods, transmit illness on board, or, introduce diseases in new areas. Pest species, s...