Insect pollination is one of the most important ecosystem services. Pollinator communities are rarely studied across years and crops in same location. The aim this study was to investigate pollinator community structure on five different fruit crops, as well activity groups during day their temperature preferences. observed two apple trees blueberry, strawberry, blackcurrant raspberry bushes. v...

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.

Cyrtophora cicatrosa weaves a three-dimensional dome web and is commonly found in thorny bushes and cacti. The factors that could be responsible for this selection were studied, both by field observations and laboratory experiments. Structural requirements in terms of space availability were found to be an important factor in the selection of the web site, though other factors could be signific...

To experimentally verify a new test stand for investigating fatigue strength of plain bearing surface layer some biand three-metallic thin-walled bearing bushes have been tested. A lining of the bearing was made of CuPb30 alloy. PbIn7 overlay was employed for tree-layer bearings. Typical views of observed bearing surface fatigue failures are presented and analysed in the paper. The MWO test rig...

Hydrosol beverages in Persian nutrition culture and ethnomedicine are the side products of essential oil industry that are used as delicious drinks or safe remedies. To investigate indications and chemical composition of hydrosol beverages for hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular conditions, Fars province was selected as the field of study. Ethnomedical data were gathered by questionnaires. The co...

Traditional herbal plants have played a major role in healing and preventive medicine for hundreds of years. Berberis vulgaris L. var. asperma is an indigenous seedless barberry fruit variety in Iran which is commonly utilized as additive in food and has been documented to possess several pharmacological properties of medical importance. This preliminary study investigated the anticancer activi...

This paper investigates the determination of flow resistance caused by stiff and flexible woody vegetation. A new procedure has been developed which allows the determination of friction factor f or Manning’s n using measurable characteristics of vegetation and flow. The procedure is capable of predicting flow resistance due to: (1) leafless bushes or trees and (2) leafy bushes or trees. The app...

Plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar (Herbst), has become an important pest of highbush blueberries in the northeastern United States. Here, we conducted experiments in 2010-2013 to compare the efficacy of semiochemical-baited traps for C. nenuphar versus conventional (beating cloth) sampling methods in blueberries, and to understand the seasonal abundance and distribution of C. nenuphar adult...