ARTHROPODS OF SPRINGS: INTRODUCTION

Session 14 Introduction: Legislation and Biological Control of Arthropods: Challenges and Opportunities

The United States currently has no comprehensive, integrated legislative or regulatory framework to manage the permitting of imported biological control agents. There are unresolved questions of whether the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has jurisdiction over parasitoids that are not plant pests; there are differences in protocol between weed and arthropod biocontrol ag...

[university of Colorado at Colorado Springs,colorado Springs, Colorado]

Invasive arthropods.

Many arthropod species have been transported around the globe and successfully invaded new regions. Invasive arthropods can have severe impacts on animal and human health, agriculture and forestry, and the biodiversity of natural habitats as well as those modified by humans. The economic and environmental effects of invasion can be both direct, through feeding and competition, and indirect, suc...

Cognitive Arthropods

Insects are nature’s engineering marvels. They can perform marvellous feats such as jumping many times their own body length, lifting many times their own body weight, moving around even with multiple missing limbs and doing all this with amazing efficiency. It is little wonder then that roboticists have been attempting to replicate nature’s design feat in robots. The primary thrust in the area...

Role of hot springs’ hydrochemistry in Balneotherapy, Case Study: Fotoyeh and sanguyeh springs, western Hormozgan

Introduction: Hydrochemical properties of waters used in balneotherapy are very important, as they play a key role in success or failure of this kind of treatment. There are 30 mineral and hot spas in Hormozgan Province, Southern Iran, which are traditionally used for treating diseases. In this study, hydrochemical properties of Fotoyeh and Sanguyeh Springs, in western Hormozgan Province, are d...