Global trade facilitates the inadvertent movement of insect pests and subsequent establishment of populations outside their native ranges. Despite phytosanitary measures, nonnative insects arrive at United States (U.S.) ports of entry as larvae in solid wood packaging material (SWPM). Identification of wood-boring larval insects is important for pest risk analysis and management, but is difficu...

As international trade increases so does the prominence of urban areas as gateways for exotic forest insects (EFI).Delimiting hot spots for invasions (i.e., areaswhere establishment is likely) within urban areas would facilitate monitoring efforts. We used a propagule-pressure framework to delimit establishment hot spots of a hypothetical generalist EFI in six U.S. urban areas: Chicago, Detroit...

Development of the new waxy winter wheat cultivars Eldija and Sarta | Žilvinas Liatukas, Vytautas Ruzgas, Andrii Gorash, Jurgita Cecevi?ien?, Rita Armonien?, Gražina Statkevi?i?t?, Kristina Jašk?n?, Gintaras Brazauskas Agricultural Journals

abstract due to economical importance of stored product pests and resistance to conventional insecticides, it is necessary to use novel and suitable compounds in control programs. therefore, we evaluated the toxicity of spinosad to three important storage insect, red flour beetle, tribolium castaneum (herbst), rice weevil, sitophilus oryzae (l.), sawtoothed grain beetle oryzaephilus surinamensi...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (the “SPS Agreement”) seeks to ensure that SPS measures do not result in unnecessary barriers to international trade by requiring that countries establish or maintain SPS measures on the basis of scientific risk assessment (11). Given the downward pressure on international trade tariffs and agricultural subsidie...

We used abundance data and the program Focus to determine the spatial scale at which 31 species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) respond to forest habitat amount. We predicted that the spatial scale at which species respond would increase with body size, and that species using ephemeral larval habitat would respond at larger spatial scales than species using more stable larval h...