the carabid beetle pterostichus (phonias) strenuus (panzer) is newly recorded from iran. it was collected by hand from ghaleroudkhan forests in the caspian province of guilan. this carabid beetle is widely distributed throughout the palaearctic region including europe, uzbekistan, kazakhstan and russian far east.

ptinidae or spider beetles, is a worldwide family of beetles especially distributed in the subtropical and temperate zones including iran. niptus holoeucus (golden spider beetle) from kangohar cave in fars province (iran) is described as new record for iran. we regarded this beetle as a troglophile and guanophile species.

Uncertainty about future spread of invasive organisms hinders planning of effective response measures. We present a two-stage scenario optimization model that accounts for uncertainty about the spread of an invader, and determines survey and eradication strategies that minimize the expected program cost subject to a safety rule for eradication success. The safety rule includes a risk standard f...

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., areas where 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, Detro...

Native to China and Korea, the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is a polyphagous wood-boring pest for which a trapping systemwould greatly beneÞt eradication andmanagementprograms inboth the introduced andnative ranges. Over two Þeld seasons, a total of 160 ßight intercept panel traps were deployed in Harbin, China, which trapped a tota...

The Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis , was first found attacking urban street trees in the United States in 1996 and in Canada in 2003. This tree-killing invasive insect has long been a major pest in China and is difficult to control because immature stages live within wood and long-lived adults are often located high in tree canopies. A microbial control product (Biolisa Kamik...

fumigant toxicity of various doses of essential oils (185.2, 370.4, 555.5, 740.7, 925.4, 1111.1, and 1296.3 µl/l water) from five officinal plants, including rosemary (rosmarinus officinalis), lavender (lavandula vera), fennel (foeniculum vulgare), tarragon (artemisia dracunculus)and summer savory (satureja hortensis)on two stored products pests, cowpea weevil (callosobruchus maculatus) and red...

Extensive mortality of whitebark pine, beginning in the early to mid-2000s, occurred in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) of the western USA, primarily from mountain pine beetle but also from other threats such as white pine blister rust. The climatic drivers of this recent mortality and the potential for future whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetle are not well understood, y...

A novel approach to Bayesian Reinforcement learning (RL) named Beetle has recently been presented; this approach nicely balances exploration vs. exploitation while learning is performed online. This has produced an interest into experimental results obtained from the Beetle algorithm. This thesis gives an overview of bandit problems and modi es the Beetle algorithm. The new Beetle Bandit algori...