Abstract Background Ephestia cautella (Walker) (Lepidoptera:Pyralidae) is one of the most economically important date fruits insect pests, which causes major losses in quantity and quality yield. The present study aimed to evaluate 3 entomopathogens: Beauveria bassiana (Basonym 1836), Metarhizium anisopliae (Metchnikoff 1879), Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner 1915) var. kurstaki individually mi...

New cell lines from embryos of Ephestia kuehniella were recently developed. Primary cultures were initiated in September 2002 from 2 to 4 day old eggs in either modified TC-100 or ExCell 400 medium. From these initial cultures, one, originally isolated in the Ex-Cell medium, produced sufficient cell growth to allow subcultivation and eventually led to the establishment of two cell strains, one ...

Weeds should be controlled with low impact methods and selective agrochemicals that have little or no effect on non-target organisms. This study aimed to evaluate the of herbicide atrazine (triazine class) 10 Trichogrammatidae (Hymenoptera) species. A female species these natural enemies was individually placed in a glass test tube (free-choice test) two paper cards containing 45 Anagasta (Ephe...