Jatropha gossypiifolia L. (bellyache bush) is a deciduous shrub from tropical America that was introduced into Australia as an ornamental and has since become a serious weed of rangelands and riparian zones in northern Australia. It forms dense thickets that degrade habitat, including suppressing...
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Snow, E. L.; Dhileepan, K.; Taylor, D. B. J.
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Weeds Society of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Citation
20th Australasian Weeds Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 11-15 September 2016, 2016, pp 237-240
The invasion and the impact of non-native turtles on the local species in Europe has been a subject of several studies during the last decades. Unfortunately, until now this problem in Bulgaria has not been a focus of the scientific community and publications on the topic are scarce. The main goal...
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Natchev, N.; Kornilev, Y.; Popgeorgiev, G.; Tzankov, N.
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Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Ankara, Turkey
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Proceedings, 4th ESENIAS Workshop: International Workshop on IAS in Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Areas in ESENIAS Region, Çanakkale, Turkey, 16-17 December 2013, 2014, pp 39-40
Aim: To study the feeding behavior of Phenacoccus solenopsis during host shift for evaluating its host adaptability. Methods: Feeding behavior of the solenopsis mealybug was quantitatively analyzed by electronic penetration graph (EPG) technique to evaluate its resource utilization efficiency when...
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Huang Fang; Wang FeiFei; Zhang ZhiJun; Li WeiDi; Lu YaoBin
Publisher
Editorial Office of Acta Entomologica Sinica, Beijing, China
Citation
Acta Entomologica Sinica, 2014, 57, 4, pp 503-508
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Rapo, C. B.; Eigenbrode, S. D.; Hinz, H. L.; Gaskin, J.; Price, W. J.; Schaffner, U.; Schwarzländer, M.
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USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, USA
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Proceedings of the XIII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, 11-16 September, 2011, 2013, pp 37
Diglyphus wasps are important bio-control agents for agromyzid leafminer, and have been studied and applied widely all over the world. In view that the agromyzid leafminers on vegetables, especially the invasive species, have rapidly spread and caused serious damage in China, the knowledge on the...
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Liu WanXue; Wang WenXia; Wang Wei; Zhang YiBo; Wan FangHao
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Editorial Office of Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, Beijing, China
Citation
Acta Entomologica Sinica, 2013, 56, 4, pp 427-437
The last two years (2010 and 2011) tomato crops from west of Romania have been invaded a new pest species known as Nezara viridula (southern green stink bugs). This pest is dangerous both stage adult and larva, too. The fruits of tomato are quantitatively and qualitatively affected. First, on...
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Grozea, I.; Ștef, R.; Virteiu, A. M.; Cărăbeț, A.; Molnar, L.
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Agroprint, Timisoara, Romania
Citation
Research Journal of Agricultural Science, 2012, 44, 2, pp 24-27
The study was carried out from May 2009 to April 2010 to investigate the stomach contents of Gudusia chapra from silinga beel situated in lakhimpur district (26.48′ and 27.53′ northern latitude and 93.42′ and 94.20′ east longitude) of Assam, N-E India. The main stomach content of the specimen fall...
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Bipul Phukan; Sangipran Baishya; Pranjyoti Sharma; Ankur Rajbongshi; Abdur Rahman
Publisher
MKK Publication, Kolkata, India
Citation
Environment and Ecology, 2012, 30, 3, pp 578-580
Aedes japonicus is another invasive mosquito species which disseminate throughout world. This species is an Asian species of mosquito generally found in East Asia. In 1998, the species Aedes japonicus was first detected in the United States in New York and New Jersey. Since that time, Aedes...
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Merdić, E.; Vignjević, G.; Vrućina, I.
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Korunić d.o.o. Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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Zbornik Radova 22. Znanstveno Stručno Edukativni Seminar DDD i ZUPP 2010: Djelatnost dezinfekcije, dezinsekcije, deratizacije i zaštite uskladištenih, Pula, Croatia, 24-26 March, 2010, 2010, pp 179-185
The invasive plant species, Spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa Lam.) and common tansy (Tanacetum vulgare L.), are altering native rangeland communities in western North America (Tyser and Key, 1988; Jacobs, 2008). To increase our understanding of why sheep consume these species to a certain...
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Whitney, T. R.; Olson, B. E.
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American Sheep Industry Association, Englewood, USA
Citation
Sheep & Goat Research Journal, 2010, 25, pp 26-31