The palm weevil, Rhynchophorus vulneratus, is native to Southeast Asia and was recovered from an infested Canary Islands date palm in Laguna Beach, California, USA, in 2010. The detection of this potentially destructive palm pest initiated a detection, containment, and eradication program that was reliant, in part, on the deployment of bucket traps loaded with aggregation pheromone and baited w...

Madeira is the largest of four islands constituting Archipelago in North Atlantic Ocean. It located at 400 km from Northern Canary Islands, 500 Morocco and between 900 1000 South Portugal Spain. So far, nineteen species mite family Phytoseiidae had been reported this island. We report paper results a survey conducted May 2019 Island, which 15 have found, six being new for Island fauna.

Abstract. Soil moisture is key for understanding soil–plant–atmosphere interactions. We provide a soil pattern recognition framework to increase the spatial resolution and fill gaps of ESA-CCI (European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative v4.5) dataset, which contains > 40 years satellite global grids with ? 27 km. use terrain parameters coupled bioclimatic type information predict finer-...

Emission from the J=1-0 12 CO transition was detected unambiguously at 4 out of 17 observed positions in the Magellanic irregular galaxy NGC 6822; two more positions yielded marginal 3σ detections. These positions include the HII region complexes Hubble V and Hubble I/III, and two IRAS far-infrared emission peaks not associated with bright HII regions. The bright HII region Hubble X was not det...

taking my elective in an underdeveloped part of the world, but the scene below made me feel wary. An hour after leaving the international section of Jan Smuts Airport, Johannesburg, and 36 hours after leaving Heathrow, I arrived at K D Matanzima Airport, Transkei, which is 15 km outside the capital Umtata. After "scrounging" a lift into town, I managed to secure a two-month study visa from a ne...

Pacing strategies in marathon runners have previously been examined, especially with regard to age and performance level separately. However, less information about the age × performance interaction on pacing in age-group runners exists. The aim of the present study was to examine whether runners with similar race time and at different age differ for pacing. Data (women, n=117,595; men, n=180,4...

Subglacial Lake Vostok is located ,4 km beneath the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and has been isolated from the atmosphere for .15 million yr. Concerns for environmental protection have prevented direct sampling of the lake water thus far. However, an ice core has been retrieved from above the lake in which the bottom ,85 m represents lake water that has accreted (i.e., frozen) to th...