The scuttle fly, Megaselia scalaris (Loew) (Diptera: Phoridae), is of medical, veterinary, and forensic importance. In the case of the latter, M. scalaris is commonly associated with indoor death or neglect cases of humans or household animals, and its larvae are useful in determining time of colonization (TOC). This study is the first to examine the effects of different temperatures and tissue...

Attack rates, progeny production, sex ratios, and host utilization efficiency of Muscidifurax raptorellus (Kogan and Legner) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), Tachinaephagus zealandicus Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae), and Trichopria nigra (Nees) (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) were evaluated in laboratory bioassays with five dipteran hosts: house fly (Musca domestica L.), stable fly (Stomoxys calcitran...

zeolite was synthesized from coal tailings and coal fly ash sampled from zarand coal washing plant, iran, using h2o2–promoted hydrothermal treatment. samples consisted mainly of sio2 and al2o3 which are the main components for the zeolite synthesis. to perform the experiments, appropriate amount of the starting materials were mixed with 240 ml volume of 30% h2o2 at room temperature with continu...

present study deals with the adsorption of glycolic acid (ga) from aqueous solutions by using bagasse fly ash (bfa). bfa is a solid waste generated from bagasse fired boilers and can be used as an adsorbent. batch adsorption studies were carried out to evaluate the effect of various parameters like adsorbent dose, contact time, initial concentration and temperature on the removal of ga from aq...

rapid expansion of the industrial sector adds more effluent into the agricultural land and in the vicinity of industry, which possesses the major threat of land contamination and environmental degradation. the present study was conducted to determine toxic metal concentration in fly ash and metal accumulation potential of the saccharum munja and cynodon dactylon, the two main grass species grow...

the work focuses on the removing of cu(ii) from aqueous solution by linde f(k) zeolite. the zeolite is synthesized from fly ash by hydrothermal process. the adsorption experiments discuss several factors including the optimal solution ph, zeolite dosage, adsorption temperature, adsorption kinetics and adsorption isotherm equation. the results show that, the optimal solution ph is 6 and the effi...