the purpose of research was analyzing educational needs of corn farmer's regarding biological control bracon parasitoid of corn caradrina in dezful township, khouzestan province, iran. the method of research was correlative descriptive. a random sample of dezful township corn farmers of khouzestan province, iran (n=350) were selected for participation in the study. a questionnaire was developed...

the parasitoid trichogramma brassicae bezdenko is used for inundative releases in biological control programs against lepidopteran pests in agro-ecosystems. age-specific functional responses of t. brassicae to different egg densities (5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, and 80) of sterilized eggs of ephestia kuehniella at 23±1°c, 60±5% rh, and 16:8 h (l:d photoperiod ) were studied. e. kuehniella densities ...

the pea aphid, acyrthosiphon pisum (harris) is one of the most important pests of pea throughout the world.host stage preference under choice and no-choice tests and age-specific functional response of praon volucre (haliday) parasitizing a. pisum were investigated. the experiments were carried out under laboratory conditions at 25 ± 1 °c, 60 ± 5% rh and a photoperiod of 14: 10 h (l: d). functi...

rearing methods for bracon hebetor (say) (hym., braconidae) were investigated in the series of laboratory experiments designed to enhance the yield of the mass rearing of this parasitoid for biological control of lepidopteran field and stored product pests. in these experiments, the effects of parasitoid and host densities on fertility and sex ratio of b. hebetor were assessed. in parasitoid de...

a study was carried out to map dispersal of trichogramma brassicae bezd. on tomato in a 0.5 ha field. first, 1, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 meter distances from the central point of the field were marked in form of squares. on each square, 8 points were selected and a wooden stake of 1.5 m length was vertically secured into the soil at each point equal to plant height and bearing a yellow sticky trap ...

the main purpose of this research is to determine the effective factors in adopting biological control in the farmer field school approach. the method used in this research is descriptive-correlation and comparative, which has been done by survey. the rice farmers of the township of babol, mazandaran, iran were selected as the sample population of this research. the statistical sample of the re...

encouraging natural enemies by growing attractive plants is considered an effective method of pest control in organic farming. however, it is important to identify which flowers best attract beneficial insects. in this study, relative attractiveness of 16 species of flowering plants to adult hoverflies was assessed by conducting timed observations of feeding-visit frequencies. the experiments w...

Anderson, L. M., Stockwell, V. O., and Loper, J. E. 2004. An extracellular protease of Pseudomonas fluorescens inactivates antibiotics of Pantoea agglomerans. Phytopathology 94:1228-1234. Pseudomonas fluorescens A506 and Pantoea agglomerans strains Eh252 and C9-1 are biological control agents that suppress fire blight, an important disease of pear and apple caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylo...