Under laboratory conditions, the authors analyzed the survival rate of nymphs, the minimum and maximum duration of each stage, the length of life of the winged forms and oviposition of the females. Two groups of 100 eggs each were monitored. In batch A, the specimens were reared in a single glass receptacle. In batch B, the specimens were kept apart, one by one, and when they reached the winged...

The European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a highly destructive pest. Methods to control it are limited and alternatives are needed. Observations of cherry fruit flies suggest that females exert much effort to penetrate cherries at color change stage (from green to yellow) for oviposition. Therefore, the question arose as to whether a physical barrier on th...

chrysoperla carnea is a voracious predator. it is currently mass-reared and released for biological control programs. this study was aimed at finding out the effect of different diets on biological characteristics of adult predator, and to introduce a better and cheaper artificial diet for its mass-rearing. in order to obtain a pure and physiologically homogenous population, the predator was re...

Medaka/Chronic ƒÁ-irradiation/Fecundity /Fertility Eggs of the medaka, Oryzias latipes, were irradiated continuously with 137Cs ƒÁ-rays at exposure-rates of 10, 100 and 1000 R/day from the morula stage to hatching. Newly hatched fry were transferred to non-irradiation field. At one year after hatching medaka were tested for their fecundity and fertility. When irradiated females were mated with ...

1. Host plant density can affect insect herbivore oviposition behaviour, which can, in turn, affect both plant and herbivore populations. Because clear generalisations about density effects on oviposition remain elusive, a better understanding of underlying mechanisms is needed. One such mechanism is plantmediated effects (i.e. changes in plant traits with density), which are often suggested bu...

The intensity of adult diapause in Pyrrhocoris apterus was measured in two series of experiments as the duration of pre-oviposition period at a constant temperature of 25 degrees C after transfer from short (12L:12D) to long day conditions (18L:6D). Higher diapause intensity was induced with a thermoperiod than at constant temperatures. After the induction throughout larval instars 3-5 and duri...

Mechoris ursulus (Roelofs) (Coleoptera: Attelabidae) is a pest weevil of Fagaceae oak trees in eastern Asia. The female has a distinct branch-cutting behavior in conjunction with oviposition in the acorns of its host plant. This study analyzed the factors influencing oviposition preference by carrying out continuous field surveys over the course of 2009-2010 and through laboratory rearing. The ...

Phytoseiid mites are important for biological control of some pest species including phytophagous and small insects. The species, Phytoseius corniger Wainstein is one the most abundant predatory mite in fruit orchards urban green spaces Razavi Khorasan province, Iran. Biological parameters this feeding on two-spotted spider Tetranychus urticae Koch was studied first time under laboratory condit...

the biological parameters of sympiesis striatipes ashmead, one of the most abundant hymenopterous ectoparasitoid of phyllocnistis citrella stainton in ehime province of japan, were studied under laboratory and field conditions. the mean immature developmental time and adult longevity at different temperatures (22 to 31â°c), 50-70% rh and 12l: 12d photoperiod decreased as the temperature increas...