Vampire bats belong to the Desmodontidae family. Three species live in tropical and sub-tropical America. The most important one is Desmodus rotundus a medium size bat (Figure 1). These bats feed on blood of vertebrates and are very adapted to this diet. They take nearly 15ml of blood per meal. They live in colonies in humid caves or in splits of trees. In the colony, they show strong social li...

Abstrak. Gulma adalah tumbuhan yang hidup di sekitar tanaman dibudidayakan keberadaannya tak diharapkan serta sangat merugikan bagi budidayakan dan mempengaruhi hasil pertanian diusahakan manusia. Teki gulma mempunyai potensi untuk dimanfaatkan sebagai bioherbisida, dengan adanya senyawa kimia dikandung oleh teki dapat mengendalikan lainnya. Penelitian ini mampu mengetahui pengaruh ekstrak n-he...

A field experiment was conducted to find out the impact of weeding regime on performance three Aus rice. The experimental treatment consisted varieties rice viz. BRRI dhan28, Bere Ratna and Kajol Lata, four regimes no weeding, one hand at 35 days after sowing (DAS), two weedings 20 DAS 20, 50 DAS. laid in a factorial randomized complete block design with replications. Eleven weed species belong...

In the absence of a desired first choice medicinal herb, classical Ayurveda recommends use of a functionally similar substitute. Post 16th century Ayurvedic texts and lexicons give specific examples of possible substitutes. Here we report a preliminary study of one such Ayurvedic substitution pair: Musta (Cyperus rotundus L., Cyperaceae), a common weed, for the rare Himalayan species, Ativisha ...

Surveillance of hematophagous bats is an important public health measure for the prevention and control of rabies epidemics in domestic herbivorous animals. The aim of this study was to locate and georeference D.rotundus shelters in the Municipality of São Pedro - SP, Brazil, and verify their nature (artificial or natural), surrounding landscape and distance from main rivers. To do this, two sa...

IntrodUl .. :tion Human ophLhalmomyiasis due to infestation with the larvae of the sbeep nasal bot fl y Oestrus ovi.\· has beeo known for 70 ye_ars l and the parasite is widely distributed in the Mediterranean , Russia , lndia, South Afri ca, Canada and th e USA. There has been no report of cases from Cyprus in spite of many cases occurring each year am ong the local community. Three ~ases of O...