The practice of handmade silk weaving has disappeared from much of the world, but continues to be practiced by thousands of people in Northeastern Thailand. However, as the Thai economy becomes increasingly embedded into global flows and networks of commodities, capital and culture, there are worries that silk weaving as a practice will either cease to be reproduced or will have to radically ch...

during a faunistic survey on mites associated with fruit trees in birjand region (south khorasan province) in 2010, specimens of two injurious mites were collected. using literature, specimens were identified and confirmed by dr. o. seeman (australia). as a result, two species, namely schizotetranychus sayedi attiah, 1967 collected from fig, almond, grape, apple and apricot in fodaj, alghorat, ...

We studied the efficiency and toxicity of new insecticide “GET Dry” (active ingredients alpha-cypermethrin imidacloprid). The target as acute residual impact was studied, when agent applied against tropic bed bugs (Cimex hemipterus), German cockroach (Blatella germanica), false stable flies (Musca domestica) larvae leather beetles (Attagenus smirnovi). demonstrated strong effect (about 100%), c...

Heavy mineral assemblages were studied in onshore sandy deposits from the 26 December 2004 tsunami on Kho Khao Island, southern Thailand. The most common minerals included tourmalines, zircon, muscovite, biotite, limonites and opaque minerals. An abundance of micas and depletion in tourmalines allowed us to distinguish the tsunami deposits from modern beach sediments and pre-tsunami soils. Majo...

Abstract Available DNA barcodes of freshwater zooplankton are scarce in regions like the Iberian Peninsula, which harbours many rare and endemic species is considered a hotspot crustacean biodiversity. Recently, new Ceriodaphnia (Cladocera: Daphniidae) was described using morphological analysis specimens Mediterranean region molecular data on single locality southern Spain. In our study, we det...