POTENTIAL OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANT EXTRACTS AGAINST STORED GRAINS INSECT PEST OF WHEAT
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- Created on Saturday, 02 March 2013 18:41
- Written by Abid Rasool* and Dr. Farooq Ahmad Department of Agri. Entomology University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Wheat is the staple food of people of Pakistan and is grown over more than 8 million hectares with annual production of more than 20 million tons. Being a leading food grain of Pakistan, it occupies a central position in agricultural policies. It contributes 12.7% to the value added in agriculture and 2.6% to GDP. It was grown over about 8.414 million hectares during 2007-08 with a production of a
Toxic Effects of Excessive and Unbalanced Application of Pesticides on Plant Growth and Development
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- Created on Saturday, 23 February 2013 02:42
- Written by Dr. Muhammad Anjum Aqueel, Dr. Rashad Mukhtar Balal, Dr. Muhammad Adnan Shahid, Dr. Muhammad Mansoor Javaid and Shafqat Rasool
Different control practices including pesticides must be adopted in proper and balance order to achieve the optimal plant growth. If unbalance pesticides are used, insect pests are resistant afterward and thus reduced thecrop growth and yield. Ina research trial in California, pesticides affectedthe fertility, birth rate, reproductive function and development and normal growth plants. Many pestici
Weaver ants: the living pesticide
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- Created on Saturday, 09 February 2013 06:30
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Wearver ant Wearer ant nest Scientific classification | Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Sub family: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Oecophyllini |
| Genus: | Oecophylla Smith, 1860 (15-20 species). |
| Species:2 Diversity species | Oecophylla longinoda in blue, Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius, 1775 in red. |
The parasites of insects
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Many parasites and disease-causing pathogens are known to attack insects, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans, nematodes, and mites. The infective stages of most insect parasites must be consumed orally, although some can invade though pores or membranous joints in the insect cuticle. Many researchers are currently exploring the role of parasites and infectious diseases in regulating in
Types of parasites
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Parasites are small organisms that complete most or all of their life cycle within a host, and many are capable of a high degree of within-host replication. Not all parasites kill their hosts, but parasites almost always have negative effects on host survival and reproduction. Parasites are classified based on their interactions with their hosts and on their life cycles. Parasites that live on the
CROP PEST BIOCONTROL: Insect Parasitic Nematodes
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Nematode Steinernema carpocapsae Insects are killed by Nematodes 
Introduction to Parasites
Etymology and technical words
-Etymology of the word “parasite” First used in English 1539, the word parasite comes from the Medieval French parasite, from the Latin parasitus, the latinisation of the Greek (parasitos), "one who eats at the table of another" and that from (para), "beside, by (sitos), "Control of Golden Apple Snails (GAS) by Tillage and Crop Rotation Techniques
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- Created on Saturday, 09 February 2013 04:31
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Tillage Tillage and soil puddling crush snails. The effect varies depending on the snail size and soil hardness. Tillage has greater effects on larger snails. Ten to 40% of GAS smaller than 20 mm are killed by tillage, while 40-90% mortalities are attained with GAS bigger than 20 mm. GAS mortalities are 14-20% higher when soil is compacted (hard) after rice harvest than when soil is friable (soft)
Human uses from Golden apple snails (GAS)
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- Created on Saturday, 09 February 2013 04:15
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Use as a human food item
In Veracruz, Mexico, there is a subspecies of apple snail known as P.patula catemacensis Baker, 1922. This subspecies is endemic to Lake Catemaco. This large snail is locally known as "tegogolo" and is prized as a food item. In Northeast Thailand these snails are collected and consumed. They are picked by hand or with a handnet from canals, swamps, ponds and flooded rice pLife cycle of the golden apple snails (GAS)
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Adult This species, unlike most snails known to common people, is not androgynous but gonochoristic. It means it has males and females! GAS P. canaliculata is sexual mature at the size of 2.5 cm/1 inch. Sexes are separate.-Females lay clusters of bright pink eggs attached to solid surfaces (rocks, walls, logs, emergent vegetation, trash) up to usually about 50cm above the water surface. Females ar
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