Between 1970 and 1995, twenty collecting expeditions were carried out in North Korea by the researchers of Hungarian Natural History Museum. The majority Korean Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) material is still waiting for identification; this paper, subfamily Campopleginae treated. Campoletis koreana sp. nov. Meloboris pektusana are described from Korea. following 23 species reported first time Ko...

Apple scab, Venturia inaequalis, is the most serious fungal disease of apple in Romania. The fungus attacks foliage, blossoms and fruits by defoliating trees and rendering fruit unmarketable. In addition, to cultivated apple, apple scab also attacks flowering crabapple, mountain ash and firethorn.. A simple system for apple growers to monitor environmental weather data (temperature and leaf wet...

Endoparasitic wasps are able to develop inside permissive host insects due to their ability to overcome or evade the host's immune system. In the present study, we provide experimental evidence that ovarian calyx fluid of the ichneumonid endoparasitoid Venturia canescens has the potential to alter host haemocyte spreading and inhibit host haemolymph melanisation due to the presence of a putativ...