This study aimed at relating the abundance and diversity of invertebrate communities of urban soils to chemical and physical soil characteristics and to identify the taxa most sensitive or tolerant to soil stressors. The invertebrate community of five urban soils in Naples, Italy, was sampled. To assess soil quality invertebrate community indices (Shannon, Simpson, Menhinick and Pielou indices)...

Sir, We have observed that Balaustium murorum (Acarina: Erythraeidae) can cause dermatitis. B. murorum has a habit of climbing walls and invading buildings, and has very generalized feeding habits. Its biology is not yet fully known, however, and more attention needs to be given to infestation on buildings, walls and weeds around hospitals during summer. In this paper, we report a case of exten...

THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT is based upon specimens collected by members of the 207th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment and the 37th Preventive Medicine Survey Detachment in southern Korea. It is undoubtedly incomplete, and the sampling may be selective: the hosts examined came mostly from agricultural areas and near dwellings. Despite the inevitable shortcomings of such a pre~ liminary survey, t...

weed biocontrol by using eriophid mites could be a safe and efficient strategy. in order to find an ecological non-chemical approach for controlling of weeds, and studying the possibility of using eriophyid mites, field surveys were conducted in razavi khorasan and north khorasan provinces during spring 2010. collecting of mites was carried out at all of the vegetative and reproductive stages o...