Numerous introductions of natural enemies of insects, weeds and other organisms have taken place in the Caroline and Marshall islands, especially since 1945. Rodolia pumila and several other species of coccinellids have ...

The life cycle of the transparentwinged plant bug, Hyalopeplus pellucidus (Stal), was studied on guava, Psidium guajava I... Eggs were deposited in stems, flower buds, and leaf midribs and hatched in an average of 7 days. ...

The distribution and life history or the mango weevil, Cryptorhynchus mangiferae (Fabricius) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), was studied in Hawaii. The weevil was round on all major islands, but its distribution was not related ...

We examined the intra-tree foraging behavior of mature, individually-released, laboratory-cultured (for more than 300 generations) Mediterranean fruit fly females, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Tephritidae), on ...

An inexpensive, easy-to-construct capillary flow board was developed by utilizing polypropylene tubing for the manifolds and Tygon tubing for the manometers. This modified capillary flow hoard provides multiple port outlets ...

Consistent with the findings of a previous study, foliage-naive gravid females of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), when released onto the foliage of non-fruiting host plants in a Held cage, spent ...

A two and one half month exploration for insects of Passiflora mollissima (H.B.K.) Bailey, a problem weed of Hawaiian forests, was made in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The "Hawaiian type" or P. mollisiima was frequently ...

Parasites reared from tile potato tuberworm, tomato pinworm, and other closely related gelechiids in the Americas are presented. The parasite complex associated with each gelechiid and the area of origin of the potato ...

To establish present status of the oriental fruit fly (OFF), Dacus dorsalis Hendel, and the Mediterranean fruit fly (MED). Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), and their parasitoids on Oahu, Hawaii, a study was carried out from ...