The study is a comprehensive synthesis of information on 26 known Hungarian species Zygaenids. This work used as guide for the distribution maps Zygaenidae species. It second summary geographical preparatory this was started 40 years ago with planned collecting activities, revisions museum, institutional and private collections, writing faunistic monographs Zygaenids from several geographic reg...

Varroosis, a disease caused by the mite Varroa destructor Anderson and Treuman has killed hundreds of thousands of Apis mellifera L. colonies in various parts of the world. Nevertheless, the damage caused by this mite varies with the type of bee and climate conditions. Varroa causes little damage to Africanized bee colonies in Brazil, as the infestation rates are relatively stable and low. We e...

California statewide West Nile virus (WNV) minimum infection rates in Culex thriambus Dyar mosquitoes are high; however, few specimens are submitted and tested each year, as their distribution seems limited to larval habitats along riparian systems. To evaluate the role of Cx. thriambus in the amplification, maintenance, and overwintering of WNV in Lake County, CA, the bionomics and vector pote...

Gracillariidae is one of the richest families leaf mining moths, known by its ornamental and orchard plant pests expanding their primary ranges. We here provide a revised checklist (Lepidoptera) Slovenia that presently accounts for 123 species. Among them, four species, Dialectica imperialella (Zeller, 1847), Phyllonorycter abrasella (Duponchel, 1843), Ph. trifoliella (Gerasimov, 1933), Phylloc...