Bahram Naseri

• University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi, 1790) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a significant pest that causes economic damage to olive trees, Olea europaea L., in Iran and worldwide, affecting the quality and quantity of olive oil. One of the partially resistant varieties to olive fly contamination is the Manzanilla variety, which is also a high-yielding...

Background and Objectives The effects of plant growth-promoting activities involving biological, chemical, and organic fertilizers are partly well studied for pest insects. Still, studies concentrating on the impacts of such treatments on predators are uncommon. Plant growth promoting treatments- biological, -organic and -chemical fertilizers alter...

The physiological feeding reactions of cotton bollworm were investigated by evaluation of nutritional indices and enzyme activity of larvae reared on different rapeseed cultivars including, Sarigol, Rgs003 and Slm046. The experimental plants were treated by amounts of urea fertilizer equivalent to 120, 240 and 360 kg per hectare, in three developme...

The oviposition preferences and larval development of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), were evaluated in the laboratory on canola, Brassica napus L. and five Brassica oleracea L. cultivars: broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, red cabbage, and white cabbage. Adults from larvae fed on cauliflower and canola lived longer than those fed oth...

Fumigant toxicity and sublethal effects of essential oils from Artemisia khorassanica Podl. and Artemisia sieberi Bess were investigated against adults of Sitotroga cerealella Olivier. To assess the sublethal effects, adult moths were exposed to the LC30 of each essential oil, and life table parameters of the surviving S. cerealella were studied. H...

The khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), is a polyphagous pest that infests many stored grains and products. The effect of nine maize hybrids including 704, AR 89, AS 71, AS 77, BC 678, KSC 703, PL 472, SC 704, and Simax was studied on biology and life table parameters of T. granarium at controlled conditions (33 ±...

The tomato leaf miner, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick), is a devastating pest of tomato worldwide. One of the control measures of T. absoluta is the use of biological control agents, such as Trichogramma wasps. Interactions between natural enemies and insect pests may be affected by application of fertilizers, because changes in plant quality through the f...

Myzus persicae (Sulzer) is a polyphagous aphid that causes chlorosis, necrosis, stunting, and reduce growth rate of the host plants. In this research, the effects of Zinc sulfate and vermicompost (30%), Bacillus subtilis, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Glomus intraradices, G. intraradices × B. subtilis, and G. intraradices × P. fluorescens compared to co...

The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) is a devastating pest associated with tomato. In this study, effects of tomato plants treated with vermicompost (20, 40, and 60%), humic fertilizer (2, 4 and 6 g/kg soil) and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus subtilis) were investigated on the life table paramete...

Two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), is one of the most important pests of tomato crops. Using resistant cultivars is a useful control method against the pest in integrated pest management programs. In this study, resistance of the tomato cultivars Super Chief, Super Strain B, Korral, Khorram, HAS 2274, Super...

The variegated ladybird beetle, Hippodamia variegata (Goeze), with worldwide distribution is among the most successful predators of aphids. In this study, the life history of H. variegata feeding on Aphis gossypii Glover as prey was evaluated on cucumber plants treated with different vermicompost concentrations (0, 15 and 30%) in a growth chamber a...

Biology and physiological traits of Sitotroga cerealella Olivier, a world-wide insect pest of cereals, were investigated on different grains (barley, maize, rye, sorghum, triticale, and wheat). Larval and pupal duration was the shortest on wheat and triticale, and the longest on sorghum. There were significant differences in survival rate of immatu...

The rose aphid, Macrosiphum rosae (L.), is one of the most important pests on rose plants (Rosa spp.) with a worldwide distribution. As resistance indices, the development, survivorship, and reproduction of this aphid were evaluated on 10 rose cultivars, including Bella Vita, Cool Water, Dolce Vita, Maroussia, Orange Juice, Pinkpromise, Roulette, T...

Nutritional indices of three geographic populations (Miandoab, Moghan and Kalposh) of the fifth instar of Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on four sugar beet cultivars (Dorothea, Rozier, Persia and Perimer) were evaluated at 25 ± 1 °C, 65 ± 5 % RH and a 16:8 L:D photoperiod. The estimates of all the nutritional indices were affected by th...

The effect of 11 corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids on the nutritional and growth indices of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) was determined under laboratory conditions (25 ± 1 °C, 65 ± 5 % RH and a 16:8 h light:dark photoperiod). The results obtained from the nutritional indices of the whole fourth and fifth instar larvae, on the basis of dry weight, showed...

The Khapra beetle, Trogoderma granarium Everts (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), is known as one of the most serious pests of grains in many parts of the world. In this study, the effect of nine barley cultivars ('Bahman', 'CB-84-10', 'Fajr 30', 'Makuyi', 'Nosrat', 'Yousof', '13A1', '18A1', and '19 A1') and a wheat cultivar ('MV17', as a control) was dete...

The effects of four corn hybrids, Keynes540, Keynes410, KSC260 and KSC400, were investigated on life table parameters of the beet armyworm in a growth chamber that was set at 25 ± 1 ºC, 65 ± 5% RH and 16:8 (L: D) photoperiod. The highest survivorship (lx) of adults were 0.77, 0.70, 0.62 and 0.58 on KSC260, Keynes410, Keynes540 and KSC400, respectiv...

This study aimed to evaluate the feeding responses and digestive proteolytic and amylolytic activity of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) on 11 corn (Zea mays L.) hybrids at 25 ± 1°C, 65 ± 5% relative humidity (RH), and a photoperiod of 16:8 (L:D) h. The fourth- and fifth-instar larvae fed on hybrid K47*K19 had the highest weight of food consumption an...

Digestive enzymatic activity and nutritional responses of sixth-instar larvae of the tomato fruit borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner), were studied on eight tomato cultivars commonly cultivated in Iran. Among various tomato cultivars, the larvae fed on ‘Cal JN3’ (4.860 ± 0.092 U/mg) significantly showed the highest level of proteolytic activity. H...

The effect of various host plants; chickpea (varieties Arman, Hashem, Azad and Binivich), bean varieties (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), common bean (Khomein), white kidney bean (Dehghan), red kidney bean (Goli), cowpea (variety Mashhad) and tomato (variety Meshkin) on the life table parameters of the cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) were ev...

The cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner), is one of the important polyphagous pests causing serious loss to many economically important crops in Iran. The goal of this experiment was to study the age-stage, two-sex life table of H. armigera on different bean cultivars including white kidney bean (cultivars Daneshkadeh, Pak, and Shokufa),...

The potato tuberworm, Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller), is an important insect pest of potato, Solanum tuberosum L., both in storage and in the field. In this research, tubers of eight commercial potato cultivars and four Iranian selections with equal weight and dormancy were exposed to 10 pairs of adult P. operculella in a climate chamber set at 2...

The effect of 10 potato cultivars and clones on the feeding and digestion of Phthorimaea operculella (Zeller) larvae was evaluated using larval nutritional indices and enzymatic activities. Studies were based on nutritional indices from larvae reared at 25 +/- 1 degrees C, 65 +/- 5% relative humidity, and in complete darkness. The results of nutrit...

The coccinellid beetles, Coccinellidae have a considerable role in natural control of aphids such as cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae through their predation activity. Different aphid host plants could be an effective factor on biological parameters of its predator. In this study, the effect of two host plants of B. brassicae including ornament...

Digestive proteolytic and amylolytic activities and feeding responses of fifth instar larvae of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) on different host plants including chickpea (cultivars Arman, Hashem, Azad, and Binivich), common bean (cultivar Khomein), white kidney bean (cultivar Dehghan), red kidney bean (cultivar Goli), cowpea (cultivar Mashhad), tom...

Bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.), is one of the most serious pests of cereals, with an almost worldwide distribution. A primary screening test was carried out to gauge the resistance or susceptibility of 40 wheat lines to R. padi, and follow-up experiments were conducted to determine the development and fecundity rates of R. padi on e...

Bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.), a polyphagous species with a nearly worldwide distribution, is an important pest of wheat as well as the main vector of barley yellow dwarf virus. We evaluated the resistance categories of eight wheat lines including antibiosis, antixenosis, and tolerance against R. padi under laboratory conditions. T...

Abstract Nutritional indices of Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on different host plants including chickpea (cultivars Arman, Hashem, Azad, and Binivich), common bean (cultivar Khomein), white kidney bean (cultivar Dehghan), red kidney bean (cultivar Goli), cowpea (cultivar Mashhad), tomato (cultivar Meshkin) and potato (cult...

The compatibility of Beauveria bassiana isolate DEBI 002 (Atashgah) with fipronil, pyriproxyfen and hexaflumuron insecticides was assayed. To determine the impact of the insecticides on the germination of the fungal spore, different concentrations of the compounds were added to the culture medium (malt agar). In order to calculate the mycelial gr...

Greenbug, Schizaphis graminum (Rondani), is a worldwide pest of cereals including rice, sorghum, wheat, barley, etc. The relative impact of resistance modalities, including antibiosis and antixenosis, and tolerance of seven wheat cultivars and lines (three wheat cultivars, namely Kouhdasht, Bezostaya and Hirmand, and four wheat lines, namely ERWYT...