A new gall wasp species, Dryocosmus zhuili Liu et Zhu, is herein described from the southeastern Fujian province of China. The new species induces galls on trees of Henry's chestnut, Castanea henryi, which is also a native host for the notorious Oriental chestnut gall wasp (OCGW, Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu). D. zhuili overlaps with OCGW in emergence time and induces galls morphologically s...

Parapoynx crisonalis is an important pest of many aquatic vegetables including water chestnuts. Understanding the relationship between temperature variations and the population growth rates of P. crisonalis is essential to predicting its population dynamics in water chestnuts ponds. These relationships were examined in this study based on the age-stage, two-sex life table of P. crisonalis devel...

Illegal gold mining is activity carried out by miners who do not have legal permits. The process of illegal the community using a diesel-fueled suction machine, which can cause air to be polluted lead so that it pollutes soil through sedimentation and precipitation processes must given treatment reduce levels heavy metals in soil. purpose this study was analyze local plants are able absorb meta...

As the natural purification of the traditional artificial floating island is very slow, the purpose of this research is to explore the efficiency of the green energy artificial floating island (GAFI) to improve water quality. We constructed experimental models near the bank of Lize Lake at MingDao University in Taiwan, where the surrounding waters and wastewater from the dormitories served as t...

Abstract Pará state has one of the longest coastal in Brazil. However, floristic surveys have been conducted few regions and only study comprehensively evaluated flora state. The objective this was to create an updated certified checklist angiosperms restingas Pará. list made using literature, taxonomic revisions, herbaria specimens from HBRA, IAN, MFS MG, collections between 2014 2018. Overall...