abstract: colorado potato beetle (cpb), leptinotarsa decemlineata (say),is the most important insect pest of potato in iran. if local potato varieties vary in susceptibility to the pest, host plant resistance may provide management benefits to potato growers. a life table study was carried out to determine the relative suitability of four common potato varieties (agria, marfona, savalan and sat...

The life history of the male and female of the indoor forensic fly, Synthesiomyia nudiseta was studied under fluctuating temperature of indoor environments and analysed based on the age-stage and two sex life table. The life cycle of S. nudiseta was 14.0±1.0 days from the egg stage to adult emergence. The population parameters calculated were; net reproduction rate (Ro= 108.6), mean generation ...