scholarly journals Circadian feeding rhythm of green-belly stink bug in corn cultivation

Author(s):  
Rodolfo Vargas Castilhos ◽  
Leandro do Prado Ribeiro ◽  
Gabriel de Carvalho

Abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the circadian feeding rhythm of the green-belly stink bug (Dichelops melacanthus) on corn (Zea mays), and to correlate it with meteorological parameters. The experiments were conducted in corn fields in the first (summer) and second (fall) crop seasons, in the municipality of Chapecó, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Plants in the V3 and V5 stages were covered with cages and infested with adults of D. melacanthus. After 24 hours of acclimation, the number of insects feeding on the plant stem was counted every three hours (at 6:00, 9:00, 12:00, 15:00, 18:00, 21:00, and 0:00 h). At night, a red led flashlight was used to visualize the insects without interfering with their behavior. Meteorological parameters were monitored and correlated to the number of insects feeding on the plants. In the first and second crop seasons, the number of insects feeding on the corn stem differed among evaluation times, with peak in the afternoon, in the evening, and at night. Few insects were found feeding at 6:00 and 9:00 h. There was a positive correlation between air temperature and feeding in both seasons. In milder temperature regions, the preferred feeding time of D. melacanthus on corn is during the afternoon, evening, and night hours, which should be taken into account for a precise management of this insect.

Irriga ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-783
Author(s):  
Rosandro Boligon Minuzzi ◽  
Murilo Fretta José

Aptidão climática para o cultivo em sucessão soja-milho safrinha em cenários futuros em Santa Catarina, Brasil     ROSANDRO BOLIGON MINUZZI1 E MURILO FRETTA JOSÉ2   1 Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Av. Admar Gonzaga, 1346, Itacorubi, CEP: 88034-001, Florianópolis - SC, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Secretaria de Estado da Defesa Civil de Santa Catarina, Av. Governador Ivo Silveira, 2320, Capoeiras, CEP: 88085-001, Florianópolis – SC, Brasil. E-mail: [email protected]     1 RESUMO   O objetivo foi avaliar a aptidão climática em função da redução de produtividade para o cultivo em sucessão soja-milho safrinha em cenários futuros para o Estado Santa Catarina. Foram utilizados dados de precipitação, temperatura mínima e máxima do ar, em estações meteorológicas, localizadas em oito municípios do Estado, durante os anos de 1983 a 2014. Índices térmicos foram usados para definir a data de início das simulações em que o ciclo da soja pode iniciar e do milho safrinha terminar. Estes índices térmicos consideraram a probabilidade de ocorrência menor que 15% de temperatura mínima do ar ficar abaixo de 6 °C, sendo este indicativo de ocorrência de geada de radiação e de temperatura média diária do ar de 10 °C e 14 °C, como sendo as temperaturas basais inferior do milho e da soja, respectivamente. As simulações de redução na produtividade devido ao déficit hídrico para diferentes datas de semeadura da soja, e na sequência, para o milho safrinha, consideraram os cenários climáticos RCP4.5 e RCP8.5, à curto prazo e a médio prazo apresentados pelo Painel Intergovernamental sobre Mudança Climática. Os resultados indicam que apenas no oeste do Estado será possível adotar o cultivo em sucessão, sendo maior a janela de semeadura para as culturas, quanto maior o aumento da temperatura, da precipitação e do CO2 projetados pelos cenários.   Palavras-chave: déficit hídrico, mudanças climáticas, semeadura, produtividade.     MINUZZI, R. B.; FRETTA JOSÉ, M. Climatic aptitude for growing soybean-corn succession in future scenarios in Santa Catarina, Brazil     2 ABSTRACT   The objective was to evaluate climatic aptitude due to yield decrease for soybean-maize succession crop in future scenarios for the State of Santa Catarina. Precipitation, minimum and maximum air temperature data from meteorological stations, located in eight cities of the State, were used during the years 1983 to 2014. Thermal indexes were used to define the start date of simulations in which soybean cycle can start and maize crop ends. These thermal indices considered the probability of occurrence of less than 15% of minimum air temperature to be below 6 °C, as indicative of occurrence of frost and average daily air temperature of 10 °C and 14 °C, as being the lower basal temperatures for maize and soybean, respectively. Simulations of yield decrease due to water deficit for different dates of soybean sowing, and in the sequence, for maize crop, considered short-term projections and medium-term ones of the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The results indicate that only in the West of the State will it be possible to adopt crop in succession, the larger the sowing window for crops, the greater the increase in temperature, precipitation and CO2 projected by the scenarios.   Keywords: water deficit, climatic change, sowing, yield.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanifa Marisa

An investigation had been done to Tetragonula (Tetragona) sp nest at Indralaya, South Sumatra to describe the Tetragonula sp nest that use streetlight pole as nest medium during April - May 2019. Purpossive sampling is used to select the target nest. Two streetlight pole found be used by Tetragonula sp as their home. The coordinate of location, heght from ground surface, diameter of streetlight pole, air temperature and humidity, and floral species around nest, were noted. Spot coordinate are S 30 14’ 19.2498’’ and E 1040 39’ 15,3288’’ ; 1,5 m above the ground surface, 12 cm diameter pole, highest air temperature was 35 o C at daylight (April and May 2019), 80 – 90 % humidity at April-May 2019; which Switenia macrophyla, Hevea brasiliensis, Zea mays, and Citrullus lanatus floral species are planted around. Air temperature in the pole is very high, around 40 0 C during daylight.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Gobato ◽  
Alireza Heidari

An “explosive extratropical cyclone” is an atmospheric phenomenon that occurs when there is a very rapid drop in central atmospheric pressure. This phenomenon, with its characteristic of rapidly lowering the pressure in its interior, generates very intense winds and for this reason it is called explosive cyclone, bomb cyclone. With gusts recorded of 116 km/h, atmospheric phenomenon – “cyclone bomb” (CB) hit southern Brazil on June 30, the beginning of winter 2020, causing destruction in its influence over. One of the cities most affected was Chapecó, west of the state of Santa Catarina. The satellite images show that the CB generated a low pressure (976 mbar) inside it, generating two atmospheric currents that moved at high speed. In a northwest-southeast direction, Bolivia and Paraguay, crossing the states of Parana and Santa Catarina, and this draft that hit the south of Brazil, which caused the destruction of the affected states.  Another moving to Argentina, southwest-northeast direction, due to high area of high pressure (1022 mbar). Both enhanced the phenomenon.


2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Leite Rezende ◽  
Pedro V. Eisenlohr ◽  
André Luís de Gasper ◽  
Alexander Christian Vibrans ◽  
Ary Teixeira de Oliveira-Filho

2015 ◽  
Vol 110 (5) ◽  
pp. 618-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Ivan Prim ◽  
Marcos André Schörner ◽  
Simone Gonçalves Senna ◽  
Christiane Lourenço Nogueira ◽  
Anna Carolina Cançado Figueiredo ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Csenge Nevezi ◽  
Tamás Bazsó ◽  
Zoltán Gribovszki ◽  
Előd Szőke ◽  
Péter Kalicz

<p>In the Hidegvíz Valley experimental catchment in Hungary the meteorological data have been collected since the 1990s and used for various purposes including hydrological studies. Current research began in 2018–19, that aimed to reveal the connections between the hydrological and botanical characteristics in riparian forests and a wet meadow. Changes that occurred in both ecosystems in the groundwater levels, soil moisture and vegetation, showed that the local meteorological events influence these factors. Therefore we decided to analyse longer periods in which meteorological extremes<br>strongly influenced hydrological conditions and so status of ecosystems. Further measurements and their analysis were also required because more accuracy and detail were needed for future water balance modelling.</p><p>The measured data between 2017–2020 were chosen as a starting database. For the first analysis we selected three meteorological parameters, i. e. the precipitation, the air temperature, and the air humidity. These parameters were measured by automated instruments, except for the precipitation. We found that the automated tipping-bucket rain gauge needs validation by a manual measurement (Hellmann-type rain gauge), because the data that collected by the automated device will be invalid if the rain intensity is too high.</p><p>In 2017 and 2018, the annual precipitation was distributed evenly, but in the following two years we observed some extremes. In 2019 and<br>2020, the spring was especially dry, the lowest monthly sum was 1.2 mm in 2020 April. 2019 April was similar (19.5 mm), but after the drought<br>period intense rainfall events arrived in May, resulted a monthly total of 214.1 mm. Air temperature and air humidity has not been showed such extremes as the precipitation.</p><p>This study showed that detailed analysis of meteorological parameters is crucial for hydrological modelling data preparation because errors and extreme event can cause serious problems during modelling process and, also in case of evaluation of model results.</p><p>The research has been supported by the Ministry of Agriculture in Hungary.</p>


2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Luiz Rossetto ◽  
Gerson Dellatorre ◽  
Fábio Lang da Silveira ◽  
Vidal Haddad Júnior

Seabather's eruption (SBE) is an intensely itchy, papule-erythematous dermatitis that occurs predominantly in regions of the body covered by bathing costumes, after exposure to marine water. The planulae larvae of Linuche unguiculata scyphomedusae (thimble jellyfish) are the etiologic agent of the dermatitis, which is frequent in waters of Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The authors report 38 cases of SBE in the State of Santa Catarina (Southern region of Brazil), with emphasis on their clinical and epidemiological aspects, such as profile of victim, topography of the papules and conditions predisposing to the accident.


2011 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charrid Resgalla Jr

This paper presents information from different sampling surveys carried out along the Santa Catarina coast in order to outline the biogeographical characteristics of the zooplankton in this region and identify species or groups of species with potential use as bioindicators. Based on a checklist of species of the zooplankton community in the state, it was observed that, in the warmer months of the year, the fauna is similar to that of the states of Paraná and São Paulo (e.g. Creseis virgula f. virgula, Penilia avirostris; Acartia lilljeborgi and Oithona oswaldocruzi), while in the colder months there are coastal representatives of the fauna of Rio Grande do Sul (e.g. Acartia tonsa). However, the zooplankton consists predominantly of warm water species for most of the year, which is typical of Tropical Shelf Waters. Various species of zooplankton can be used as hydrological indicators, enabling a distinction to be made between coastal waters which are influenced by continental inputs (e.g. Paracalanus quasimodo and Parvocalanus crassirostris), common in the north of the state, and processes of upwelling (e.g. Podon intermedius) and the influence of the Subtropical Shelf Front (e.g. Pleopis polyphemoides), coming from the south. The different environments investigated present a zooplankton abundance that depends on the influence of continental inputs and the possibility of their retaining and contribution for the coastal enrichment, which varies seasonally


Author(s):  
Roberto Zolet ◽  
Gilvane Scheren ◽  
Celso Galante

Purpose: The objective of this research was to identify the per capita income in the municipalities of Santa Catarina based on Net Current Revenue and the relation between own revenues, transfers with the capacity of each municipality. Methodology: The present study, with regard to the objectives as descriptive, as it seeks to analyze public revenue per capita, analogous to procedures is characterized as documentary, since it makes possible, from the published reports, in relation to the approach to the problem, as quantitative research, using values ​​and their correlations. The period under analysis comprises the years 2015 and 2016. The sample consists of 295 municipalities in Santa Catarina. Results: The results show that, in the stratification and analysis, the Per Capita Net Current Revenue by size of Municipality, to which the larger municipalities have, proportionally, a better distribution of the municipal collection, which culminates in a greater capacity to cope with the demands social policies. On average, the per capita net current revenue of the municipalities of Catarinenses in the years 2015 and 2016 was R $ 3,332.61, with a variation between the minimum and maximum per capita income of R $ 1,377.24 and R $ 8,055.16, which shows a significant discrepancy between the analyzed municipalities. Contributions of the Study: Considering the values received by the municipalities of Santa Catarina, the research sought to demonstrate and clarify the influence of values received from the Union and the State for investment and maintenance of activities, depending on the population and size of each municipality.the planning and funding of resources for the benefit of the population.


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