Medicinal and aromatic plants are used primarily in the medicine, food cosmetic industries. Scale insect species belonging to Coccomorpha (Hemiptera: Sternorryncha) feed on medicinal plants, reducing yield commercial value of these crops. This study aimed determine scale Adana Province between 2015 2017. samples were collected from leaves, trunks, brunches fruits 28 plant examined identified la...

Amaç: Defne (Laurus nobilis L.) Hatay ilinde yaygın olarak yetişen, sabit ve uçucu yağı tıbbi kozmetik sanayinde kullanılan ekonomik öneme sahip bir bitkidir. Bu çalışma defne ağaçlarında sorun zararlı böcek türlerinin yanısıra zararlıların olası doğal düşman türlerin belirlemek, böylece defnede zararlılardan kaynaklanabilecek verim kalite kaybının engellenmesine yönelik mücadele programlarına ...

in this study, two reared chalcid wasps are newly recorded from fars province, iran, as the natural enemies of fig soft scale, eulecanium sp. (hemiptera: coccidae): (1) scutellista caerulea (fonscolombe) (pteromalidae: eunotinae) and (2) blastothrix hungarica erdã¶s (encyrtidae: encyrtinae). both species were collected from estahaban (may 2005) and darab (september 2005; june 2006).

Pulvinaria urbicola, a pulvinariine soft scale was recorded for the first time on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) in June 2011. A broad host plant generalist, Pu. urbicola excretes honeydew and is commonly tended by ants, including invasive Anoplolepis gracilipes and Pheidole megacephala. Pu. urbicola is implicated in dieback of forest dominated by Pisonia grandis (Nyctaginaceae) on many Indo-p...