the beet armyworm spodoptera exigua (hübner) is a serious and economically important pest of solanaceous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on three host plants including pepper capsicum frutescens, eggplant solanum melongena and tomato solanum lycopersicum were determined under laboratory conditions at 26 ± 1 °c, 60 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 (l: d) h. the highest relative consumptio...

the diamondback moth, plutella xylostella (l.) is a serious and economically important pest of cruciferous crops worldwide. the nutritional indices of this pest on four host plants including two canola (slm046 and rgs003) and two cabbage cultivars (green-cornet and glob-master) were determined under laboratory conditions (25 ± 0.5 °c, 65 ± 5% rh and 16: 8 l: d h). the highest relative consumpti...

the cowpea seed beetle, callosobruchus maculatus (fab.) (coleoptera: chrysomelidae: bruchinae) is one of the major pests infesting stored pulses and is distributed worldwide. in this research, efficiency of plant extracts from eucalyptus globulus labill. and eucalyptus camaldulensis dehnh. were tested against the cowpea seed beetle for its antifeedant activity. several experiments were designed...

mulberry pyralid, glyphodes pyloalis walker is an important pest on mulberry. the essential oil of rosemary rosemarinus officinalis l. (lamiales: lamiaceae) has been investigated on toxicity and physiological characteristics of this moth under controlled conditions. the major compounds of the oil were analyzed as 1, 8 cineol (20.021%), borneol (7.17%), camphor (6.541%), geraniol (6.281%), camph...

b a ckground:  nutritional care is of special importance in the control of the rate of mortality among intensive care unit (icu) patients. therefore, anthropometric and biochemical assessment are important among icu patients. we intend to report the anthropometric and biochemical indices, as well as the energy intake among icu patients in isfahan, iran. m ethods : this descriptive study was car...

nutritional indices of helicoverpa armigera (hübner) larvae, an economic insect pest of agricultural crops in the world, were studied on five corn hybrids (sc700, sc704, sc500, dc370 and sc260) when incorporated into artificial diets under laboratory conditions at 25 ± 1 °c, relative humidity of 65 ± 5% and a photoperiod of 16:8 (l: d) h. the highest values of consumption index (ci) and relativ...

nutritional indices of the willow leaf beetle, plagiodera versicolora laicharting, third instar larvae and adults were studied on four host plants including salix alba l., salix aegyptica l., populus caspica bornm.and populus alba l.at 22 ± 2 ºc, 70 ± 10% r.h., and a photoperiod of 16:8 h (l: d). the results showed that the highest consumed food by the larvae and adults (148.5 ± 18.0 and 175.21...

Research on captive ruminants has clearly established the role of nutrition on virtually all aspects of individual and herd productivity, but assessment of nutritional effects on population dynamics of freeranging ungulates is rare. Understanding influences of nutrition on wild ungulate herd demographics has been limited by a lack of practical, reliable, and cost-effective techniques for monito...