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Introduction
George Mathew is currently working as an International Consultant on Forest Insect Pests in an ADB project attached to the Plant Protection Centre, Vientiane, Lao PDR. He is currently working on Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures and protocols with special reference to insect pest problems. Prior to joining the ADB project, he has been a Forest Entomologist at the Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi for nearly 35 years.
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October 2012 - September 2014
October 2012 - September 2014
Position
- National Protected Area Management Specialist, JICA Assisted Sikkim Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Management Project; (Ex) Emeritus Scientist
October 2011 - September 2014
Position
- National Protected Area Management Specialist, JICA Assisted Sikkim Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Management Project; (Ex) Emeritus Scientist
Education
June 1972 - March 1974
St. John's College, Agra University
Field of study
- Zoology/ Entomology
Publications
Publications (180)
As a nascent class of high‐entropy materials (HEMs), high‐entropy metal–organic frameworks (HE‐MOFs) have garnered significant attention in the fields of catalysis and renewable energy technology owing to their intriguing features, including abundant active sites, stable framework structure, and adjustable chemical properties. This review offers a...
Butterflies being pretty, various of their behavior require precise ecological situations for his or her survival. However, because of diverse reasons, especially because of human intervention, the habitats of many butterflies had been altered. Consequently, many species of butterflies that were once very common have vanished. Main objective of thi...
The field of bioelectronics with the aim to contact cells, cell clusters, biological tissues and organoids has become a vast enterprise. Currently, it is mainly relying on classical micro‐ and nanofabrication methods to build devices and systems. Very recently the field is highly pushed by the development of novel printable organic, inorganic and b...
Lipid Ink Spreading Inhibition In article number 2205590, Eider Berganza, Michael Hirtz, and co‐workers utilize dip‐pen nanolithography to print lipid patches layer‐by‐layer forming 3D structures on a surface coated with serum albumin stabilizing the structures. The lipid molecules transfer from the probe to the substrate through a water meniscus....
While patterning 2D metallic nanostructures are well established through different techniques, 3D printing still constitutes a major bottleneck on the way to device miniaturization. In this work a fluid phase phospholipid ink is used as a building block for structuring with dip‐pen nanolithography. Following a bioinspired approach that relies on in...
Insect pest problems in forest nurseries of selected indigenous tree species viz., Calophylhrrn polyanthum, Dysoxylum malabaricum, and Pterocarpus marsupium was studied at Peechi in Kerala State. The most serious pest incidence was noticed on G arborea (by the caterpillars of Epiplema jirlvilinea); A. odoratissima (by the Psyllid Psylla oblonga) an...
The occurrence and pest status of insects that attack young plantations of bamboos have been studied. A total of II species of insects belonging to Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera have been collected and identifed. Of these, Myllocerus sp. (Coleopter-a: Curculionidae), Phymatostetha deschamps (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), Notobitus sp...
T h e i n s e c t p e s t p r o b l ems i n p l a n t a t o n s o f n a t i v e a n d e x o t i c t r e e s p e c i e s , n a t u r a l f o r e s t s a n d s t o r e d t i m b e r i n I n d i a a r e p r i o r i t i s e d and listed wi th b r i e f c o m m e n t s o n c o n t r o l p r a c t i s e d i f a n y a n d c u r r e n t r e s e a r c h. R...
RESUMEN r TECHNIQUES DE PLANTATION POUR DES ESSENCES AUTOCHTONES SELECTIONNEES DE LA PENINSULE INDIENNE Les techniques 2 utiliser en pepiniere et en plantations pour cinq essences 2 usages multiples, endemiques d e I'lnde-Calaphyllum polyanthum Wall. (Clusiacees), Dysoxylum mala-baricum Bedd. (Meliacees), Garcinia g u m m i-g u t t a (L.) Robson (C...
About 12 species of insects, mostly beetles were recorded to cause damage to stored reeds and bamboos in Kerala. Among the various insects recorded, an unidentified subterranean termite and two species of beetles, Dinoderus minutus and D , ocellaris (Bostrychidae), were the most serious borers. Observations on the seasonal incidence, general charac...
Mass build up of a bug Udonga montana on bamboo in natural forests and plantations of teak, coffee, and pepper was noticed at Wynad, Kerala State in 1991 and 1992. This insect fed on the 'milk' of developing bamboo seeds leading to the formation of chaff. The eggs were laid in groups among the flower heads and the nymphs were noticed to remain in l...
I n s e c t damages o n 20 tree s p e c i e s i n t h e m o i s t d e c i d u o u s f o r e s t (MDF and 18 species i n t h e e v e r g r e e n f o r e s t (E G F) w e r e s t u d i e d i n Kerala, I n d i a Most trees h a d some i n s e c t a s s o c i a t e s c a u s i n g o c c a s i o n a l d a m a g e s , b u t no m a j o r a t t a c k s w e r...
Pyralids are an economically important group of lepidopterous insects characterised by the presence of abdominal tympanal organs and the approximation or partial fusion of the hind wing vein Sc + R 1 with Rs. Many of them are major pests on various agricultural crops, forest trees and various stored products. Although about 1600 speices are known t...
Butterflies and forest management in the Western Ghats
Butterflies and moths of Silent Valley National Park
Butterflies of Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India
Butterflies visiting butterfly gardens
Cossids, popularly known as goat moths are a small group of lepldopterous insects of considerableeconomic importance in agricul-trrre and forestry as pests of a variety of plantation crops. Their caterpillars are wood boririg in habit and live inside the stems or branches of trees or saplings. Literature record of the cossid pests of the world indi...
Role of cossid pests in plantations of horticultural crops
Insect pest status in euclayptus plantation in India
Current status of documentation of insect fauna of Kerala
Diversity of insects and their significance
The impact of human interference such as cattle grazing and cutting of trees for firewood and fodder on insect diversity, was studied In Sholayar forests in Kerala, India. The experimental plots were laid out in such a way that all possible levels of forest degradation were covered. The flora of the undisturbed areas had good representation of prim...
Of about 500 species o f Lepidoptera collected f r o m t h e Silent Valley National Park, 95 species o f butterflies and 245 o f m o t h s have been identified. The butterflies collected, belonged t o 9 families. The maximum number o f species belonged t o the families Nymphalidae and Papil-ionidae. Habitat preferences o f the various groups of but...
Impact of plantation programmes on insect species diversity
Use of dried tapioca chips as an artiifcial feed for bamboo borer Dinoderus spp.
Drypetes oblongifolia is reported as a new host plant of Plain Puffin Appias indra siva from Kerala, India
Effect of plantation programmes on insect species diversity
Altogether, 860 species of insects were collected from New Amarambalam Forest Reserve areas during the present investigation. Of these, 535 species belonging to 14 orders and 83-families were collected from representative sample study plots in different forest types at various altitudes. Maximumnumber of insects and species was recorded from the se...
Insect pollinators of teak in Kerala, India
Insect pest problems of Acacia
Biology of teak carpenterworm Alcterogystia cadambae
Insects as biotic indicators to monitor ecosystem changes
About 260 species of insects belonging t o 11 insect Orders have been collected in this study. Of these, the identities of 209 species have been confirmed. A major share of insects recorded in this study belongs t o Lepidoptera and Hemiptera. The distribution of insects in the various biocoenoses in the study area indicated rich species diversity i...
Teak carpenterworm Alcterogystia cadambae
Botany, wood cahacteristics..... Grewia tiliaefolia
The biology, infestation characteristics and impact of the bagworm, Pteroma plagiophleps Hamps, (Lepidoptera, Psychidae), a newly emergingpest of forest plantations of exotic Paraserianthesfalcataria (=Albiziafalcataria) (Mimosaceae) in Kerala, India was studied. With a generation time of 10-11 weeks, upto 5 generations per year have been observed...
A general survey was carried out on the Satyrine fauna of the Kerala Western Ghats recording 27 species compared to 29 species recorded from the Western Ghats. External genitalial morphology of fourteen species under 6 genera was studied. Based on an evaluation of resemblances of the genital parts, particularly of the valvae, uncus and phallus of t...
Polyembyonic parasite of Parotis vertumnalis
Solar light trap for sampling forest insects
Information pertaining to the insect borers of bamboos is presented. Of the various borers infesting live bamboo, the weevils, Cyrtotrachelus buqueti Guer., C. longimanus Fb., C. dux Boheman, and the bamboo Hispine borer, Estigmena chinensis Hope were the most important. Regarding borers associated with harvested culms, the powder-post beetles, Din...
A checklist of 1960 identified specimens of insect species in the KFRI Insect Collection, belonging to 237 families under 9 Orders is presented. Number of identified species in each family is given and a systematic list of insect Orders and Families for organizing an insect collection is presented. The collection also holds over 150 unidentified in...
Book review by KSS Nair: Butterfly Gardening, Theory and Practices by George Mathew & Elizabeth George
Butterflies are organisms of great aesthetic appeal to all sections of people- young and
old. They add brilliance, peace, serenity, and tranquility to our surroundings. They perform
important roles in nature - as pollinators, as a source of food for higher groups of organisms, transfer of solar energy to other organisms and as indicators of environ...
A general survey was carried out on the Satyrine fauna of the Kerala Western Ghats recording 27 species compared to 29 species recorded from the Western Ghats. External genitalial morphology of fourteen species under 6 genera was studied. Based on an evaluation of resemblances of the genital parts, particularly of the valvae, uncus and phallus of t...
Biodiversity document for Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala, India
Insect pests associated with various forest plantation trees
Biology and control of albizia bark caterpillar Indarbela quadrinotata
Insect diversity in disturbed and undisturbed forests in the Kerala party of the Western Ghats
Insect pollinators of teak in Kerala
Biology and ecology of teak carpenterworm Cossus cadambae
In situ conservation of butterflies by setting up butterfly gardens
Seed handling and nursery practices of forest trees of Kerala
Biodiversity of New Amarambalam reserved forests
Baseline data on biodiversity of Malayattoor forest was collected
A data of forest insects from Kerala has been presented.
Document on biodiversity of Alappuzha District, Kerala, India
Documentation of biodiversity of Idukki District, Kerala, India
Investigation on the distribution patterns and habitat requirements of the butterfly tribe, Troidini was carried out in undisturbed forest habitats and disturbed, human-modiûed habitats in the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot in south India. Compared various ecological and biological traits of the four species of this group which included a CI...
