PURPOSE While obesity is associated with increased mortality and decreased functional outcomes in adult burn patients, the ramifications of larger than average body size in the pediatric burn population are less well understood. The present study examines whether obesity was associated with poor outcomes following pediatric burn injuries. METHODS Thermal injury data for patients ≤ 18 years of...

Flat and cylindrical adhesive boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis grandis Boheman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), pheromone traps captured significantly more (P < or = 0.05) boll weevils than the Hercon (Hercon Environmental, Emigsville, PA) trap during the late cotton-growing season, and larger adhesive areas were associated with higher captures; a flat plywood board collected the most boll weevils b...

Laricobius nigrinus Fender (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), a predatory beetle native to western North America, has been released since 2003 for management of hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), Adelges tsugae Annand (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), non-native pest killing hemlocks in eastern America. Over 420,000 L. have the USA from field and lab-reared sources, 14,000 which were deployed Commonwealth Virginia, ...

Two new species of Laboulbeniales are described: Laboulbenia parasyphraeae, parasitic on Parasyphraea sp. (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticinae), and L. skelleyi, parasitic on Pselaphacus rubricatus and P. signatus (Coleoptera, Erotylidae). Other recorded species are Chaetomyces pinophili, Chitonomyces aurantiacus, Corethromyces ophitis, Dimorphomyces platensis, Dioicomyces anthici, D. cf. noto...

A new stem bythinine in Cretaceous Burmese amber and early evolution of specialized predatory behaviour in pselaphine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Zi-Wei Yin, Joseph Parker, Chen-Yang Cai, Di-Ying Huang & Li-Zhen Li To cite this article: Zi-Wei Yin, Joseph Parker, Chen-Yang Cai, Di-Ying Huang & Li-Zhen Li (2017): A new stem bythinine in Cretaceous Burmese amber and early evolution o...

a field survey was conducted in wukari, taraba state to assess the diversity and abundance of insect species in selected habitats (residential, open field made up of grassland and an agroecosystem). sampling were done biweekly using light, pitfall and yellow pan traps set in 3 replicates, 30 m apart. insects recovered were wet preserved in 70% ethanol except butterflies and moths. representativ...

We evaluated the efÞcacy of the systemic insecticides dinotefuran, emamectin benzoate, Þpronil, and imidacloprid for preventing attacks and brood production of southern pine engraver beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and wood borers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) on standing, stressed trees and bolt sections of loblolly pine, Pinus taeda L., in eastern Texas. Emamectinbenzoate signiÞc...

The diet and trophic groups of an assemblage of aquatic insects were studied in a tropical stream. Genera of the orders Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera showed feeding specialization. Others, such as Trichoptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, showed great diet variation with genera of different trophic groups. Seasonal variation of insect diet, evident only for some gen...

Navia nom. nov. is proposed for Euterpia Navia & Flechtmann, 2005 (Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea), preoccupied by Euterpia Bondar, 1942 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae).