The First International Conference for Insect Pathology and Biological Control

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 134-134
Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Eustachio Tarasco ◽  
Francesca De Luca

Agro-forestry intensification is one of the main drivers of the global biodiversity crisis and decline in arthropods and particularly insects [...]


Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty

As part of a continual search for potential pathogens of insects for use in biological control or on an integrated pest management program, two bacilliform virus-like particles (VLP) of similar morphology have been found in the Mexican bean beetle Epilachna varivestis Mulsant and the house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L. ).Tissues of diseased larvae and adults of E. varivestis and all developmental stages of A. domesticus were fixed according to procedures previously described. While the bean beetles displayed no external symptoms, the diseased crickets displayed a twitching and shaking of the metathoracic legs and a lowered rate of activity.Examinations of larvae and adult Mexican bean beetles collected in the field in 1976 and 1977 in Maryland and field collected specimens brought into the lab in the fall and reared through several generations revealed that specimens from each collection contained vesicles in the cytoplasm of the midgut filled with hundreds of these VLP's which were enveloped and measured approximately 16-25 nm x 55-110 nm, the shorter VLP's generally having the greater width (Fig. 1).


2011 ◽  
Vol 219 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-126
Author(s):  
Rebekah E. Smith

This section contains short contributions involving the following aspects of prospective memory research: Recent and upcoming symposia on prospective memory (including a symposium in honor of Richard Marsh to be held at the 5th International Conference on Memory, York, UK, August 2011) / Special journal issues on prospective memory (2000-2011) / Fourth International Conference on Prospective Memory (Naples, Italy, 2013) / The Prospective Memory Group (web discussion group)


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