First Report of the Eriophyoid MiteAbacarus doctus(Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) Infesting Sugarcane in El Salvador

Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) associated with Compositae in Iran.

Five species of eriophyoid mites were identified during surveys of mite fauna associated with plant species of the family Compositae from Southwest of East Azerbaijan province during 2010 and 2011. Two of them, Aceria virgatae n. sp. from Centaurea virgata Lam. and Aceria xeranthenzis n. sp. from Xeranthemumn squarrosum Boiss., were found to be new to science. No damage symptoms were observed o...

Nine eriophyoid mite species from Iran (Acari, Eriophyidae)

Nine eriophyoid mites, including two new species and five new records, from Iran are described and illustrated. They are Aceria acroptiloni Shevchenko & Kacalev, 1974, rec. n. on Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo (Asteraceae); Aceria anthocoptes (Nalepa, 1892), rec. n. on Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. (Asteraceae); Aceria lactucae (Canestrini, 1893), rec. n. on Lactuca virosa L. (Asteraceae); Aceria...

Journalists in El Salvador

The typical journalist in El Salvador is male, in his mid-thirties and holds a university degree in journalism or communication. Of the 250 interviewed journalists, 101 were women, making for a proportion of 40.4 percent of the overall sample. On average, journalists in El Salvador were 32.00 years old (s=9.27); half of the journalists were younger than 28 years. Journalists tend to be well edu...

Intervention to reduce heat stress and improve efficiency among sugarcane workers in El Salvador: Phase 1

BACKGROUND Chronic heat stress and dehydration from strenuous work in hot environments is considered an essential component of the epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Central America. OBJECTIVE (1) To assess feasibility of providing an intervention modelled on OSHA's Water.Rest.Shade programme (WRS) during sugarcane cutting and (2) to prevent heat stress and dehydration without decreasing p...

El Salvador and the Southeastern Frontier ofMesoamerica