Larvae of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L. (Lepidoptera: Plutelli- dae), have rich microbial communities inhabiting the gut, and these bacteria contribute to the fitness of the pest. In this study we ev...
Microbial abundance and diversity of different life stages (fourth instar larvae, pupae and adults) of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L., collected from field and reared in laboratory, were investigated u...
The authors would like to thank Prof. Anthony M. Shelton and Ms. Hilda L. Collins in Cornell University for review- ing the manuscript. This work was funded by grants from the National Basic Research and Development Program, China (2009CB 119004), Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201103021) and the Nat- ural Science Foundation of China (31071709).
Field trials were conducted in China in 2008 and 2009 to evaluate the efficacy of mating disruption (MD) on diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, in cabbage, Brassica oleracea var. capitata. Effectiveness was posit...
Diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.) is one of the most serious insect pests for its remarkable ability to develop resistance to virtually every insecticide that has been used against it. In the present study,...
The effect of temperature on the development of the Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera: PluteUidae), was evaluated at eight constant temperatures (10, 15, 20, 25, 28, 30, 32.5 and 35~C), with relative ...
The functional response of adult Nabis kinbergii (Hemiptera: Nabidae) to density of diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) was investigated under laboratory conditions. Holling' s (195...
Field doses of six selected insecticides were tested against the immature(pupae) and mature (adult) stages of Diadegma semiclausum (Hellen) and Oomyzus sokolowskii(Kurdjumov), parasitoids of the diamondback moth, Plut...
Ribosomal protein S 13 gene has been cloned and analyzed in many organisms,but there are few documents relating to insects. In this communication, the full-length cDNA sequence of ribosomal protein S 13 gene in the di...