An inventory of Rhynchophorus species was carried out to determine their diversity, biogeographical variability and morphometrics. A shotgun trapping method was used at nine sites in three districts over a four-month ...
Laboratory and field experiments were performed to evaluate the pathogenicity of an isolate of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae to the two sympatrically occurring weevil species, Cylas formicarius an...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China–Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Joint Project (U1701234)。
The sweet potato weevil(Cylas formicarius(Fab.)(Coleoptera: Brentidae)) is a pest that feeds on sweet potato(Ipomoea batatas(L.) Lam.(Solanales: Convolvulaceae)), causing substantial economic losses annually. However,...
Support for this study was provided by grants from the Key Project of Basic Research of Yunnan Province,China(202101AS070035);the Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32071653)。
Biological invasion is considered one of the world’s most serious conservation biology issues.In a global review on invasive species,Richardson&Rejmanek(2011)indicated that over 40%of invasive trees and over 60%of in...
The sweetpotato production in Tanzania has been increasing due to the changing status of the crop from famine relief to a commercial crop particularly in the central zone of Tanzania.Production of the crop is affected...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31770691);the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFC1200400)。
The weevils Eucryptorrhynchus brandti(Harold)and E.scrobiculatus(Motschulsky)are two pests of the tree of heaven,Ailanthus altissima.They usually co-occur on their host tree.However,these two species have a niche sepa...
The Central Bank of Nigeria Anchored Borrowers Programme efforts geared towards massive production of cowpea and sustainable food security is challenged with post-harvest losses especially due to insect pest infestati...
This study was supported by the Polish National Science Foundation grant Preludium no.2015/17/N/NZ8/01565;while MB was supported by Polish Foundation for Science scholarship‘Start’,and Etiuda NSF grant no.2015/16/T/NZ8/00018;DNA sequencing was supported by PLAGANADO AGL2014-54739-R awarded to RB;MAS recognizes the support of the U.S.National Science Foundation(DEB-1556707).
Species introduced to habitats outside their native range often escape control by their natural enemies.Besides competing with native species,an alien species might also affect the native herbivores by introducing a n...
This research was supported by the projects FORASSEMBLY(CGL2015-70558-P)and PLAGANADO(AGL2014-54739-R)of the Spanish Ministry of Economy;the projects BEEMED(SGR913)(Generalitat de Catalunya)and PII1C09-0256-9052(Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha and the European Social Fund);R.B.was funded by a contract of the Program Atracción de Talento Investigador(Gobierno de Extremadura).
Synchrony between seed growth and oogenesis is suggested to largely shape trophic breadth of seed-feeding insects and ultimately to contribute to their co-existence by means of resource partitioning or in the time whe...
It was isolated eleven species of weevils family (Curculionidae) back to Subfamiles are Brachyderinae, Cleoninae, depending on the exact Microsculpture of the pits on elytra of these types, namely, Bothynoderes memo...