The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, is widely considered to be highly invasive and the most damaging insect pest affecting palms in world. Nonetheless, prevention or significant slowing of spread RPW mainly relies on application integrated management (IPM) programs. This study aimed evaluate farmers’ adoption IPM practices examine differences according socio-economic attribute...

The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier), recently found in Curaçao and Aruba, has become an economically significant palm tree pest in many tropical and subtropical regions. By the time a palm infested with RPW displays visible damage, larvae have destroyed much of the trunk internal structure, typically resulting in tree mortality. Acoustic technology may enable pest man...

In insects, perception of the environment-food, mates, and prey-is mainly guided by chemical signals. The dynamic process of signal perception involves transport to odorant receptors (ORs) by soluble secretory proteins, odorant binding proteins (OBPs), which form the first stage in the process of olfactory recognition and are analogous to lipocalin family proteins in vertebrates. Although OBPs ...

The Old World doryctine wasp genus Doryctophasmus Enderlein, 1912 is reviewed. Two new species, D. beninus sp. nov. and D. madagascarus sp. nov., are described and illustrated from the Afrotropical region. The illustrated redescriptions of D. ferrugineiceps Enderlein, 1912, D. ferrugineus (Granger, 1949) and D. rubrotestaceus (Granger, 1949) are provided. Lectotypes of Doryctes ferrugineus Gran...