What could be the cause of the excessive reproduction of heteropteran insects?

03 May 2023 1 544 Report

Recently, many heteropteran insects (stink bugs in particular) have appeared in Romania (in agricultural crops, forests, gardens, parks, green spaces), both as species (some new) and numerically. I don't understand what would be the cause, the warmer weather, the intensification of transports? I'm not clear?

Badges
Science topic

Similar topics
Social Science
Media
Journalism

More Ioana Grozea's questions See All

From your experience, how a research question should be written in a paper of policy sociology so that the research result leads to policy change?

Phd. Student, I am in the stage where I outline my research questions and research methodology. Thank you in advance for your support! A clarification: the chosen theme is the process of social...

16 October 2019 2,775 25 View

Is it possible to do MLR (mixed lymphocyte reaction) with monocytes and allogeneic CD4+ T cells?

I want to check my stimulated monocytes ability to present antigen to CD4+ T cells. Also wondering if I analyze the result on FACS, do I need to irradiate the monocytes? Any tips and inputs are...

28 January 2014 9,144 4 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View

What is the status of bread making and more bakery foods with the use of insect flour/powder?

Insects have been consumed by human diet since prehistoric times. At present, the idea of looking at insects as food has been getting traction worldwide, also in response to increasing food...

03 March 2021 6,223 5 View

How can the modification of garden soil cause global warming?

Hello, I am working on a soil project and I found a primary research article that tests how the modification of agricultural soil can cause global warming, using a thermal collector, however I...

02 March 2021 7,161 3 View

Why might my GFP tag be dissociating from my plasmid after transfection?

I have a set of stably transfected cell lines all transfected with plasmids containing GFP tags on the C terminus. During a western blot using anti-GFP antibody, one of my plasmids has dissociated...

01 March 2021 9,310 4 View

Do you need the CMV enhancer before the CMV promotor for a proper function of CMV on the gene that follows?

I'm a student and I have to produce a cell line with a knockin for the NRF2 gene with GFP. I have to put a promotor in front of the GFP because the gene will be too far away from the promotor of...

28 February 2021 7,127 2 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

No amplification data for qPCR on MxPro?

I have set up a qPCR run on MxPro with SYBR green and ROX as a reference, however, when I go to the analysis section the program seems to only collect data for the dissociation curves and not the...

25 February 2021 8,039 1 View

How to make a time series imputation benchmark ?

Hello ! In a work, I have to benchmark different algorithms to fill in missing values in time series. I insist on the fact that this is imputation and not forecasting. In my case, I have access...

24 February 2021 7,470 7 View

Problem with ligating 2.8 kb insert into 8.5 kb plasmid?

I am trying to clone 2 copies of the same mammalian gene into the pSF-CMV-Ub-Puro Ascl (contains HindIII, KpnI and NheI cut sites) plasmid. This is what the final product is supposed to look like...

24 February 2021 6,310 3 View