Children and Pesticides by Frederick M. Fishel

“…But how would parents respond if they suddenly turn around, and their toddler is holding a can of household aerosol insect killer? This 3-page fact sheet outlines some facts and precautionary measures regarding children and pesticides in the home environment, so parents have a better idea of how to keep harmful chemical products away from their children. …”
Get full text

Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide by James M. Stephens, Sydney Park-Brown, Danielle Treadwell, Susan Webb, Amanda Gevens, R. A. Dunn, Gerald Kidder, D. Short, G. W. Simone

“…Includes tables with fertilizer and insect control recommendations, a planting guide with planting dates and spacing information, and a table of varieties recommended for Florida gardens. …”
Get full text

Florida Vegetable Gardening Guide by James M. Stephens, Sydney Park-Brown, Danielle Treadwell, Susan Webb, Amanda Gevens, R. A. Dunn, Gerald Kidder, D. Short, G. W. Simone

“…Includes tables with fertilizer and insect control recommendations, a planting guide with planting dates and spacing information, and a table of varieties recommended for Florida gardens. …”
Get full text

Let Your Lawn Tell You When To Water by Laurie E. Trenholm, Joseph Bryan Unruh

“…Excess irrigation is one of the major causes of lawn demise and may include problems such as a shallow root system; increased disease, weed, or insect infestation; reduced drought tolerance; increased thatch and excessive growth; and reduced tolerance to other stresses such as shade and soil problems. …”
Get full text

Let Your Lawn Tell You When To Water by Laurie E. Trenholm, Joseph Bryan Unruh

“…Excess irrigation is one of the major causes of lawn demise and may include problems such as a shallow root system; increased disease, weed, or insect infestation; reduced drought tolerance; increased thatch and excessive growth; and reduced tolerance to other stresses such as shade and soil problems. …”
Get full text

Peachtree Borer, Synanthedon exitiosa (Say) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Aegeriidae) by J. Stacy Strickland

“…The peachtree borer and the lesser peachtree borer, Synanthedon pictipes, account for more damage to peach trees than all other insect pest combined. The peachtree borer can damage the tree in two ways: girdling and inducing plant pathogens to invade the weakened tree. …”
Get full text

Managing Southern Chinch Bug in Warm Season Turfgrasses by Eileen A. Buss, Brianna Whitman, Adam G. Dale

“… Southern chinch bug, Blissus isularis Barber, is the most damaging insect pest of St. Augustinegrass in the United States. …”
Get full text

Managing Southern Chinch Bug in Warm Season Turfgrasses by Eileen A. Buss, Brianna Whitman, Adam G. Dale

“… Southern chinch bug, Blissus isularis Barber, is the most damaging insect pest of St. Augustinegrass in the United States. …”
Get full text

Peachtree Borer, Synanthedon exitiosa (Say) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Aegeriidae) by J. Stacy Strickland

“…The peachtree borer and the lesser peachtree borer, Synanthedon pictipes, account for more damage to peach trees than all other insect pest combined. The peachtree borer can damage the tree in two ways: girdling and inducing plant pathogens to invade the weakened tree. …”
Get full text

Children and Pesticides by Frederick M. Fishel

“…But how would parents respond if they suddenly turn around, and their toddler is holding a can of household aerosol insect killer? This 3-page fact sheet outlines some facts and precautionary measures regarding children and pesticides in the home environment, so parents have a better idea of how to keep harmful chemical products away from their children. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of Telenomus remus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) as a biocontrol agent of Spodoptera litura (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) based on two-sex life table and functional response... by Zhen Shen, Li-Hui Liu, Lian-Sheng Zang, Tie-Jun Deng, Zhen-Bao Luo, Jun-Yi Gao, Liang-De Tang

Get full text

Can fungal endophytes suppress Trialeurodes vaporariorum and the transmission of tomato infectious chlorosis and chlorosis viruses in field conditions? by Marial Makur Zechariah Paweer, Marial Makur Zechariah Paweer, Everlyne Samita Namikoye, Shem Bonuke Nchore, Komivi Senyo Akutse, Komivi Senyo Akutse

Get full text

Changes in Gene Expression of Whiteflies, Bemisia tabaci MED Feeding on Tomato Plants Infected by One of the Criniviruses, Tomato Chlorosis Virus through Transcriptome Analysis by Jing Zhao, Xiaoan Sun, Huijie Dai, Xianping Zhang, Dezhen Zhang, Xiaoping Zhu

Get full text

Simulation and response mechanism of potential geographical distribution of plateau pika Ochotona curzoniae under climate change by Yanni Song, Hainan Chong, Dawei Wang, Haijun Xiao

Get full text

‘Customary’ use of stick tools by chimpanzees in Bulindi, Uganda: update and analysis of digging techniques from behavioural observations by Matthew R. McLennan, Jacqueline Rohen, Zoe Satsias, Tom Sabiiti, John-Mary Baruzaliire, Marie Cibot

“…Wild chimpanzees commonly use stick tools in foraging, often to harvest honey and other insect foods. Compared to other geographical regions, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) in mid-western Uganda generally have small toolkits, with one long-term study group – the Sonso community in Budongo Forest – exhibiting no foraging stick use whatsoever. …”
Get full text

Threshold Dynamics of a Huanglongbing Model with Logistic Growth in Periodic Environments by Jianping Wang, Shujing Gao, Yueli Luo, Dehui Xie

“…A new model about HLB transmission with Logistic growth in psyllid insect vectors and periodic coefficients has been investigated. …”
Get full text

Structure Design and Kinematic Simulation of Biomimetic Hexapod Robot based on the ADAMS by Gong Li’nan, Pang Zaixiang

“…In order to improve the adaptability and flexibility of the hexapod bionic robot to the working environment,based on the analysis of the physical form of bionic beetle and structural characteristics,taking the beetles as reference,a kind of six-foot symmetrical insect structure robot with good performance and simple structure is designed. …”
Get full text

Selected Legumes Used As Summer Cover Crops by Jim Rich, David Wright, Jim Marois, Dick Sprenkel

“… Cover crops are generally planted after a primary (cash) crop for one or more of the following reasons: erosion control, organic matter accumulation, improved soil tilth, pest suppression (weed, disease, nematode, and insect), and nitrogen production. Optimally, a cover crop will provide a wide range of most or all of the previously mentioned benefits, even if the main reason for planting it was more specific. …”
Get full text

Shönlein-Henoch Purpura in the Course of Chronic Primary Inmmune Thrombocytopenia. Presentation of a Case by Lucía Díaz Morejón, Belkis Lázara Rodríguez Jorge, Dumeivy García Sánchez

“…It is related to triggering pathologies as infections and insect bites. A case of a 4 year old boy is presented who presented allergic episodes of rhinitis and urticaria. …”
Get full text

Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines (Ichinohe, 1952) (Nematoda: Rhabdita: Heteroderidae) by Holly Andres, Zane J. Grabau

“…Members of the Heteroderidae family belong in the order Tylenchida; most are plant parasitic while some are insect parasites. They are obligate parasites that attack different species of crops and weeds. …”
Get full text