Field studies were carried out during the April-November period of 2018-2019 in order to determine phytophagous and predatory insect species living on ornamental trees shrubs Burdur city center parks. 15 parks located chosen as study area. The visited three-four times throughout year specimens insects host plants collected brought laboratory for preparation diagnosis. A total 34 plant taxa exam...

Chilies are plants that becoming increasingly popular all over the world, including in Hungary. Since little is known about abundance and seasonal dynamic of insect pests their natural enemies associated with chilies under Hungarian climatic conditions, aim study was to monitor these organisms on different varieties growing conditions provide data for improving IPM chilies. Chili “Yellow Scotch...

The idea that naturalised invading plants have fewer phytophagous insects associated with them in their new environment relative to their native range is often assumed, but quantitative data are few and mostly refer to pests on crop species. In this study, the incidence of seed-eating insect larvae in flowerheads of naturalised Asteraceae in New Zealand is compared with that in Britain where th...

The effects of insect larval diet on adult olfactory responses to host-plant or food volatiles are still debated. The induction of adult host preferences has been studied in insects with diverse ecologies, including parasitoids, flower-visitors and phytophagous species. We investigated this question for the first time in a coprophagous insect species. Larvae of the French scarab dung beetle Agr...

The guts of insects harbor symbiotic bacterial communities. However, due to their complexity, it is challenging to relate a specific symbiotic phylotype to its corresponding function. In the present study, we focused on the forest cockchafer (Melolontha hippocastani), a phytophagous insect with a dual life cycle, consisting of a root-feeding larval stage and a leaf-feeding adult stage. By combi...

Due to the high content of nutrient, sieve tubes are a primary target for pests, e.g., most phytophagous hemipteran. To protect the integrity of the sieve tubes as well as their content, plants possess diverse chemical and physical defense mechanisms. The latter mechanisms are important because they can potentially interfere with the food source accession of phloem-feeding insects. Physical def...

Introduction. Mango (Mangifera indica L.) is widely cultivated around the world and in Costa Rica nearly 8200 hectares are dedicated to production of this crop. More than 400 species phytophagous insects mites have been reported on mango worldwide. Among them 73 armored scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae), which Aulacaspis tubercularis Newstead one most serious pests mangos many parts world. Objecti...