The rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros, has emerged as a serious pest of oil palm since the prohibition of burning as a method for maintaining estate hygiene in the 1990s. The abundance of beetles is surprising given that the Malay peninsula was the site of first discovery of the Oryctes virus, which has been used to effect good as a biological control agent in other regions. A survey of adu...

Primary cell cultures from the lymphoid organ of Penaeus monodon were used to investigate in vitro propagation and morphogenesis of white spot syndrome virus (WSSV). Double-strength Leibovitz's L15 supplemented with 20% fetal bovine serum, pH 7.5, with a final osmolarity of 530 +/- 5 mOsm kg-1 was identified as the most suitable culture medium. In this medium, the lymphoid cells remained viable...

The aims of this research were to compare effectiveness fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae control larva population horn beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) at the same dosage 40 gram/2m2 determine infection rate on beetle. This was conducted Gunung Mas village, Batu Ampar county, Tanah Laut district, South Kalimantan province. used Completed Random Design nonfactorial with 2 factors t...

Beetles represent the largest insect order and they display extreme morphological, ecological and behavioral diversity, which makes them ideal models for evolutionary studies. Here, we present the draft genome of the scarab beetle Oryctes borbonicus, which has a more basal phylogenetic position than the two previously sequenced pest species Tribolium castaneum and Dendroctonus ponderosae provid...