The use of pesticide-treated vegetation as a barrier for control of nuisance and disease-bearing mosquitoes has become an option for mosquito management for home owners and public health and mosquito control professionals. Potted wax myrtle and azalea plants were treated with bifenthrin (0.79% AI) at maximum label rate using backpack and electrostatic sprayers and exposed to various treatments ...

Lemon oils are amongst the highest volume and most frequently traded of flavor fragrance essential oils. Citronellal citral considered key components responsible for lemon note with (neral + geranial) preferred. Of myriad sources citral, Australian myrtaceous tree, Myrtle, Backhousia citriodora F. Muell. (Myrtaceae), is superior. This review examines history, natural occurrence, cultivation, ta...

Natural dyeing is a rather ancient method. It known that self-growing, agricultural plants in Nature have been used since times as material for painting parts such leaves, fruits, flowers, branches, seeds, stems and roots. Plants the shades obtained from these are important sources of natural dyestuffs. Nowadays, with development technology, methods gradually losing their importance. But, carpe...

BACKGROUND Zones of contact between closely related taxa with divergent migratory routes, termed migratory divides, have been suggested as areas where hybrid offspring may have intermediate and inferior migratory routes, resulting in low fitness of hybrids and thereby promoting speciation. In the Rocky Mountains of Canada there is a narrow hybrid zone between Audubon's and myrtle warblers that ...

Although studies have been performed identifying bacteria present in seagull guano, limited studies have been done with fungi, leaving a significant gap in our knowledge of a potentially significant reservoir of human disease. If pathogenic fungi are being deposited by seagulls in their feces then it is possible that the Department of Health might elect to monitor sand, as well as water, for a ...