Abundance and diversity of natural enemies related to chrysanthemum aphid suppression with botanical insecticides

Impact of reduced-risk insecticides on soybean aphid and associated natural enemies.

Insect predators in North America suppress Aphis glycines Matsumura (Hemiptera: Aphididae) populations; however, insecticides are required when populations reach economically damaging levels. Currently, insecticides used to manage A. glycines are broad-spectrum (pyrethroids and organophosphates), and probably reduce beneficial insect abundance in soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merr. Our goal was to ...

relative abundance of turnip aphid and the associated natural enemies on oilseed brassica genotypes

a two-year field study was conducted at punjab agricultural university, ludhiana, india, to study the relative abundance of mustard/turnip aphid, lipaphis erysimi (kaltenbach) (hemiptera: aphididae) and the associated resident natural enemies on 10 different rapeseed-mustard genotypes which included: brassica juncea: rh 7846, rh 9501, rk 9501, jmm 927, purple mutant; b. napus: hyola pac 401 (hy...

Distribution and natural enemies of russian wheat aphid in the fars provience

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...