The use of suitable mass rearing methods is crucial to establish successful inundative or inoculative biological control programs.The development of an artificial diet considerably reduces costs of mass rearing.In this study, the efficacy of a new meridic artificial diet for rearing the predatory bug, Orius albidipennis (Het., Anthocoridae), was st
Understanding of the role of body mass in structural-functional relationships is pressing, particularly because species losses often occur non-randomly with respect to body size.Our study examined the effects of dung beetle body mass on dung removal at two levels.First, we used the Subscription lab experiment to evaluate the efficiency of eight dun
Zhikun Zhang,1 Rong Zhang,2 Peng Qin,3 Liwen Tan4 1Mental Health Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Gift Card Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi, China; 2Department of Psychiatry, Staff Hospital of Zhongyuan Oil Field Company, Puyang, Henan, China; 3Department of Psychiatry, Changde Rehabilitation Hospital, Changde, Hunan, China; 4
pommel sack Although water is rarely traded over long distances by itself, the total weight of the water consumed to produce traded commodities exceeds the weight of any other commodity traded in the world.This concept is known as virtual water trade.Although space-/time-/commodity-based quantification has been conducted extensively, the underlying