The gregarious ability of the moving locust lead to comparatively study its behaviour during the remissive period (dominating lonely phase) and during the invasive period (dominating gregarious phase). The biogeography analysis of the moving locust in Algeria shows that the frequency sites are...

The grey squirrel is an invasive alien species introduced to Great Britain in the late 19th Century and to Northern Italy during the early 20th Century. As well as displacing the native European red squirrel, grey squirrels cause significant impact to trees and woodlands through bark-stripping...

This proceedings contains 37 papers on emerging, reemerging animal and zoonotic diseases, 34 papers on food and feed security and safety, 4 papers on quality assurance and accreditation in veterinary education, 8 papers on zoo, wild and exotic animal health and management and 17 papers on animal...

To investigate the effect of nitrogen fertilization on fitness of cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae L. (Hemiptera Aphididae), oilseed rape (RGS003 cultivar) was treated with different nitrogen rates. Nitrogen fertilization treatments were 0, 50, 100, and 150% of recommended rates. The results...

Oak (Quercus L.) is an abundant and widely distributed genus in eastern North America. A history of periodic fire, grazing, canopy disturbance and timber harvesting has favored oak's dominance. But, changes in this regime toward much less fire or complete fire suppression, and selective cutting are ...

The reproductive biology of Poecilia latipinna inhabiting Wadi Haneefah stream, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was studied. The fish (P. latipinna) were found reproductively active round the year. The highest reproductive activity occurred from February to May and August to November which defined two...

This paper focuses on the dangers posed by the cherry vinegar fly (Drosophila suzukii), a newly introduced harmful pest, on sweet cherry, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, black currant, blueberry, plum, peach and nectarine cultivation in Germany. The significance of the high reproductive rate of...

This set of conference proceedings contains papers from the British Veterinary Zoological Society Autumn Meeting 2009, held in York, UK, on 7th and 8th November, 2009. The theme of the conference is Sex-aspects affecting exotics and wildlife. Seven sessions (five with a particular theme plus two...

Over 226 weed species belonging to 43 botanical families have been studied for host suitability to different root-knot nematodes worldwide. Meloidogyne incognita was reported to reproduce on the largest number of weeds with over 138 weedy plant hosts throughout the world. Four other Meloidogyne...