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Currently Kenya has been invaded by large swam of desert locusts that are destroying both food and cash crops and pasture for livestock. Please may you explain strategies that can be under taken...
31 January 2020 6,166 1 View
Hi, I'm looking for an entomologist that can recommend a good book on the trapping of insects for study. Thanks
31 January 2020 3,050 2 View
If I want to know the full length of a specific gene and the ORF of this gene, should I do RACE PCR or there is another way? Note that the whole genome of the insect is published.
24 January 2020 2,608 1 View
How to increase the nutritional preference of an insect Coccinella Spetempunctata (L ) To increase catching Aphis fabae.
17 January 2020 8,333 2 View
I am interested in the area of artificial insect diets for rearing. Particularly diets that can be manufactured and commercialised. Does anyone have expertise in this area or can comment on the...
06 January 2020 2,022 5 View
Any Ideas: could you share your experiences abut how to control weed and insect in organic no-tillage system?
17 December 2019 1,218 3 View
Hello to everyone, I've used RNA plus micro kit (Qiagen) to extract RNA from an insect tissue. I kept the flow through from RNAeasy spin column. The protocol itself suggest to precipitate proteins...
17 December 2019 1,651 1 View
We have insect mortality number as well as mortality percentage , but while considering chi square test which should calculate either number of insect died or its mortality percentage..kindly do...
16 December 2019 3,361 4 View
sticky tarp used to monitor the population of insect pests in the greenhouse for example. I need to use different designs of insect traps to detect the infestation of insect pests to release the...
06 December 2019 3,914 10 View
I am wanting to use flow as a diagnostic tool for live/dead sperm counts on an insect that has very tiny, long and featureless non-motile spermatozoa. I am using PI and SYTO16 fluorescent dyes to...
02 December 2019 2,774 3 View
Is it possible to produce a Flag-tagged catalytic domain of a murine enzyme in insect cells using a plasmid-based system? does it affect the functionality of the final enzyme?
30 November 2019 7,865 3 View
I am familiar with a few species such as: grasshoppers, caterpillar and termites from central Africa and these are resources becoming available during a certain season of the year. How about...
02 October 2019 2,331 4 View
I am working on management of tree borers and bark feeding insects and I wish to know that is there any work on use of endophytes on insect borer of tree species control. r�m
17 August 2019 7,639 5 View
The flower was found from a Hydrangea species in my garden. These little bugs were found hiding within the flower. Do you know what they are?
12 August 2019 3,324 8 View
Hi colleagues I need the reference: Maldonado Capriles, J. (1990). Systematic catalogue of the Reduviidae of the world (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science.
19 July 2019 4,407 1 View
want to fix the gut of insect in 10% NB formaline, but read somewhere for some tissues its not suitable.
16 July 2019 599 3 View
Hi This species was collected from northern Iran. Yours sincerely Salehi
12 July 2019 1,740 22 View
The species was found at night. I have observed that eyes of the species glow in dark...Help required in its identification n any other data if available.
02 July 2019 5,952 6 View
A two year insect population dynamics data shows slight variation in their performances w.r.t meteorological parameters. Data pooling will be helpful for me?
02 July 2019 5,673 4 View
I have found a novel behaviour in an insect and I would like to publish it, but I do not know where to publish something that is just descriptive (with photos and videos) and does not includes any...
14 June 2019 697 1 View
I would like to analyze adaptive molecular evolution of a insect mitochondrial gene. Could anyone please suggest me the procedure or tools to perform this.
08 June 2019 1,248 3 View
Please see the uploaded photograph and a small video of an insect. Its body seems highly evolved to match with the vegetation to camouflage. Can somebody provide any infromation about this? Thanks
04 June 2019 4,639 13 View
Many of my friends are advocating to use high tech approaches, at great expense, versus local field assistants. For example, the use of drones to monitor phenology, rather than have a person walk...
03 June 2019 10,072 15 View
Incidencias de mas de 200 insectos adultos por planta evaluada
25 May 2019 7,812 3 View