scholarly journals Urban Entomology Highlights From 2020—Monitoring and Control of Urban Pests

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander E Ko
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Urban Entomology ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
Urban Pests ◽  
And Control

Abstract Pest management professionals aim to answer two primary questions for their customers: 1) ‘Where/What is the pest?’ and 2) ‘How do I kill it?’. These two questions drive at the core of any pest management program. 2020 was an exciting year for entomology research, with much work being done on novel technologies and methods for detecting and controlling pests. The objectives of the current publication were to discuss papers published in 2020 that addressed the key pest management objectives of 1) monitoring and 2) controlling pest populations.

Urban Entomology Highlights From 2019 Help Create Integrated Pest Management Plans

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 1342-1348
Author(s):  
Jennifer R Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Insect Pests ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Bed Bugs ◽  
Intervention Plan ◽  
Urban Entomology ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
And Control

Abstract Urban insect pests such as ants, termites, cockroaches, and bed bugs are more than just nuisances; they often negatively impact structures, landscapes, animal health, commercial food production, food safety, and public health (mental, physical, and financial). Due to the tremendous burden these insects can inflict, researchers, manufacturers, and pest management professionals work to create solutions that effectively manage urban and structural pests. One solution that has proven useful in agriculture is the development of an integrated pest management (IPM) plan; i.e., a science-based approach to pest control that utilizes multiple tactics such as preventative tools, chemical control (sprays, fumigation, and baits), biological control, and exclusion. There are many permutations of urban IPM plans, but in general they consist of five components: 1) identifying the pest, 2) monitoring the pest, 3) developing an intervention plan (including prevention and control techniques), 4) implementing the program, and 5) recording and evaluating the results. The objectives of the current publication were to 1) highlight urban entomology research published in 2019 and 2) show how the results from these publications help pest management professionals create and implement IPM plans.

Design and Implementation of the Emergency Response Platform for Serious Environmental Pollution Accident in Coal Chemical Industry Region

2011 ◽  
Vol 58-60 ◽  
pp. 124-128
Author(s):  
Zi Ming Kou ◽  
Li Feng Yang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Dynamic Decision Making ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Environmental Accidents ◽  
The Core ◽  
Safety Technology ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
And Control

Based on the characteristics of the coal chemical industry region, an emergency response platform for serious environmental pollution accident (ERPSEPA) is designed and implemented in this paper. With the environment and safety technology as the core, the information technology as the support and with the emergency management process as the main line, ERPSEPA do a system design for this emergency platform, an integration for kinds emergency resources, and a construction for the application and database system. It realizes functions as analyzing and identifying environmental risk resources, daily management, monitoring and control, forecast and early warning, dynamic decision-making, comprehensive coordination, assessment of accident, and so on. This work is of great significance on the preventing and responding of environmental events and on the losses reducing that caused by sudden environmental accidents.

Realization of a Simulation Model of SCADA – a System for Monitoring and Control of Sofia Metropolitan

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Dimitrova ◽  
V. Dimitrov
Keyword(s):  
Simulation Model ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Imitation Model ◽  
The Core ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
Scada Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Laboratory Models

Abstract In this paper, an imitation model of SCADA systems DISIM-V and DISIM-E, implemented in the Central Dispatcher Post (CDP) of the Sofia Metropolitan, is elaborated and described. These contemporary, modern and efficient SCADA systems are in operation in the subway and cover all technological processes for monitoring and control of the train traffic and power supply. Its extensive study is not possible due to the special mode and allowance. Thus a simulator, based on a synthesized imitation model has been also elaborated. The presence of laboratory models of these SCADA systems in Todor Kableshkov University of Transport is extremely useful in the learning process and enables the trainees to penetrate deeply into the core of modern SCADA technology. This simulation model is used by students and personnel for training and increasing the qualification of the operational specialists in the metropolitan, electricity distribution companies and the railway infrastructure.

Sweeping the flies away: evidence from a fruit fly eradication program

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1920-1962
Author(s):  
Lina Salazar ◽  
Julian Aramburu ◽  
Marcos Agurto ◽  
Alessandro Maffioli ◽  
Jossie Fahsbender
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Fruit Fly ◽  
Fruit Production ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Pre Treatment ◽  
And Control

Abstract This article evaluates the short-term impacts of a fruit fly integrated pest management program in Peru. Exploiting arbitrary variation in the program’s intervention borders, we use a geographical regression discontinuity design to identify the program’s effects on agricultural outcomes. Pre-treatment balance tests show that producer and farm-level pre-treatment characteristics evolve smoothly at the intervention border. Results indicate that farmers within treated areas improved pest knowledge and are more likely to implement prevention and control practices. Also, they increased fruit production and sales. Our findings are confirmed by placebo tests and are robust to alternative regression discontinuity bandwidths and polynomials.

Applications of GPRS in the Mine Monitoring and Control System

2010 ◽  
Vol 663-665 ◽  
pp. 1192-1195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji Yu An ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Song Bo Ma
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Mobile Communication ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Monitoring And Control System ◽  
Radio Data ◽  
The Core ◽  
And Control

With the development of GPRS technology in the field of mobile communication, GPRS has been used in the system of radio data transmission at present. This paper explores the applications of GPRS in the mine monitoring and control system. In this paper we have done three things. we talk about the core cutting and moving and the system structure. we give a plan to realize the GPRS communication.

Successful Dewatering Experience at Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bennett K. Horenstein ◽  
Gerald L. Hernandez ◽  
Gary Rasberry ◽  
John Crosse
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Sludge Dewatering ◽  
Digested Sludge ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City

The City of Los Angeles has developed a diversified sludge management program since cessation of the ocean disposal of sludge in November 1987. At the heart of this program is the centrifugal dewatering of digested sludge at the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant. The experience gained from the dewatering process includes: centrifuge startup problem solving, optimization of the dewatering process, polymer testing, struvite monitoring and control, and waste activated sludge dewatering parameter development.

scholarly journals Male Song as a Tool for Trapping Female Medflies

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Mizrach ◽  
Michal Mazor ◽  
Amots Hetzroni ◽  
Joseph Grinshpun ◽  
Richard Mankin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Virgin Female ◽  
Calling Song ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Dispersal Patterns ◽  
Male Song ◽  
Early Afternoon ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Control

This interdisciplinaray work combines expertise in engineering and entomology in Israel and the US, to develop an acoustic trap for mate-seeking female medflies. Medflies are among the world's most economically harmful pests, and monitoring and control efforts cost about $800 million each year in Israel and the US. Efficient traps are vitally important tools for medfly quarantine and pest management activities; they are needed for early detection, for predicting dispersal patterns and for estimating medfly abundance within infested regions. Early detection facilitates rapid response to invasions, in order to contain them. Prediction of dispersal patterns facilitates preemptive action, and estimates of the pests' abundance lead to quantification of medfly infestations and control efforts. Although olfactory attractants and traps exist for capturing male and mated female medflies, there are still no satisfactorily efficient means to attract and trap virgin and remating females (a significant and dangerous segment of the population). We proposed to explore the largely ignored mechanism of female attraction to male song that the flies use in courtship. The potential of such an approach is indicated by studies under this project. Our research involved the identification, isolation, and augmentation of the most attractive components of male medfly songs and the use of these components in the design and testing of traps incorporating acoustic lures. The project combined expertise in acoustic engineering and instrumentation, fruit fly behavior, and integrated pest management. The BARD support was provided for 1 year to enable proof-of-concept studies, aimed to determine: 1) whether mate-seeking female medflies are attracted to male songs; and 2) over what distance such attraction works. Male medfly calling song was recorded during courtship. Multiple acoustic components of male song were examined and tested for synergism with substrate vibrations produced by various surfaces, plates and loudspeakers, with natural and artificial sound playbacks. A speaker-funnel system was developed that focused the playback signal to reproduce as closely as possible the near-field spatial characteristics of the sounds produced by individual males. In initial studies, the system was tasted by observing the behavior of females while the speaker system played songs at various intensities. Through morning and early afternoon periods of peak sexual activity, virgin female medflies landed on a sheet of filter paper at the funnel outlet and stayed longer during broadcasting than during the silent part of the cycle. In later studies, females were captured on sticky paper at the funnel outlet. The mean capture rates were 67 and 44%, respectively, during sound emission and silent control periods. The findings confirmed that female trapping was improved if a male calling song was played. The second stage of the research focused on estimating the trapping range. Initial results indicated that the range possibly extended to 70 cm, but additional, verification tests remain to be conducted. Further studies are planned also to consider effects of combining acoustic and pheromonal cues.

Electron investigations of rhabdovirus-like particles in mexican bean beetles and crickets

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
J. R. Adams ◽  
G. J Tompkins ◽  
A. M. Heimpel ◽  
E. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Acheta Domesticus ◽  
Epilachna Varivestis ◽  
House Cricket ◽  
Similar Morphology ◽  
Bean Beetle

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).

Computers for data, control and simulation

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 920-921
Author(s):  
David C. Joy
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computers ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Data Logger ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Data Control ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control

Personal computers (PCs) are a powerful resource in the EM Laboratory, both as a means of automating the monitoring and control of microscopes, and as a tool for quantifying the interpretation of data. Not only is a PC more versatile than a piece of dedicated data logging equipment, but it is also substantially cheaper. In this tutorial the practical principles of using a PC for these types of activities will be discussed.The PC can form the basis of a system to measure, display, record and store the many parameters which characterize the operational conditions of the EM. In this mode it is operating as a data logger. The necessary first step is to find a suitable source from which to measure each of the items of interest. It is usually possible to do this without having to make permanent corrections or modifications to the EM.

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