The aim of the study was to determine aroma profiles four kinds Slovak honey (sunflower, honeydew, acacia, and linden) by a qualitative quantitative screening their volatile compounds gas chromatography for potential use in aromachology business sphere. results showed that several unique volatiles were identified one kind honey, while they not remaining ones. acacia had linalool oxide (1.13–3.9...

Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a major rice pest that harbors an endosymbiont ascomycete fungus, Entomomyces delphacidicola str. NLU (also known as yeast-like symbiont, YLS). Driving by demand of novel population management tactics (e.g. RNAi), the importance of YLS has been studied and revealed, which greatly boosts the interest of molecular level studies related to YLS....

Stickiness is the physical process of contaminated lint adhering to equipment. The degree of stickiness depends on chemical identity, quantity, and distribution of the sugars. The sugar in cotton fibers may be insect or plant derived. There are several methods for measuring cotton fibers stickiness. In this work, a colorimetric method was used for the measurements. In the method, honeydew was c...

Sooty mould fungi are ubiquitous, abundant consumers of insect-honeydew that have been little-studied. They form a complex of unrelated fungi that coexist and compete for honeydew, which is a chemically complex resource. In this study, we used scanning electron microscopy in combination with T-RFLP community profiling and ITS-based tag-pyrosequencing to extensively describe the sooty mould comm...

Habitat management is a component of conservation biological control that aims to improve the availability of resources required by natural enemies. Access to non-host foods is a critical requirement for many natural enemies, and one that can be manipulated via habitat management. Food sources, usually in the form of nectar (floral or extrafloral), pollen, and honeydew supply natural enemies wi...

Microbiota of beehive products are very little known. We report here for the first time six metagenomes of royal jelly, pollen, and different types of honey from wild and cultivated lavender, chestnut, and fir honeydew. Four metagenomes of epiphytic and endophytic microbiota of lavender and rose flowers are also reported.