Kleiderläuse (Pediculus humanus Linnaeus, 1758) (Anoplura) im Soldatenalltag im Ersten Weltkrieg Zum Gedenken an Professor Dr. Albrecht Hase anläßlich seines 100. Geburtstages

A short review on infection of the army by body lice and on the development of lice control in the World War I is given principally regarding the work of late professor Dr.Albrecht Hase, the first military entomologist in Germany. Based on historical documents (postal cards, sentences our of letters, anedotes, drawings) is described, how the soldiers have met with lice and their control.     

Sekrete und Delta-16-Steroide als Lockmittel für die Rötelmaus (Clethrionomys glareolus)

Zusammenfassung Lebendfallen, die Nestmaterial oder Ausscheidungen von Rötelmäusen enthielten, wurden im Freiland von Artgenossen signifikant häufiger besucht als nicht-kontaminierte Fallen. Die Untersuchungen wurden im Spätsommer und Herbst in den Jahren 1986 und 1987 in Forstkulturen durchgeführt. In den Monaten August bis Oktober wurden Fallen, die kontaminierte Einstreu von Artgenossen enthielten, bevorzugt, in den Monaten November und Dezember Fallen mit Nestgeruch.Von den beiden Verbindungen 16-(5-alpha)-androsten-3-on (Androsten-on) und 16-(5-alpha)-androsten-3-alpha-ol (Androsten-ol) wurde die letztere signifikant von der Rötelmaus bevorzugt.

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Secretions and Delta-16-steroids as attractants for Bank Voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)

Bank Voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) preferred significantly live traps containing bedding or nesting material contaminated by conspecifics in comparision to clean traps (=control). The tests were conducted in forest cultivations in late summer and autumn of 1986 and 1987. In both years at the begin in August the traps contaminated with urin of conspecifics were most attractive. Females were significantly more frequently caught in traps contaminated by conspecific males and vice versa males visited preferably traps with bedding material of females. Later during October and November traps with nest odour were preferred by both sexes.It was assumed that derivatives of hormones could act as pheromones. Both compounds 16-(5-alpha)-androsten-3-one and 16-(5-alpha)-androsten-3-alpha-ol were tested in field plots. The latter was significantly preferred by Bank Voles but not by other species.

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Zur Möglichkeit des Einsatzes von Regulatoren des Pflanzenwachstums in der Schädlingsbekämpfung

Zusammenfassung In Anlehnung an ältere Untersuchungen mit holzigen Pflanzen ließ sich nun auch die Entwicklung von den krautigen Winterrapspflanzen durch eine Behandlung mit dem Wachstumsregulator Pydanon (Derivat der Pyridazinyessigsäure, 25 kg/ha) um etwa 2 Wochen verzögern.Im Durchschnitt der Versuche von 6 Feldern in 2 Jahren wurde durch diese Verzögerung die Populationsdichte der Kohlschotenmücke um fast 90% reduziert. Beim Kohlschotenrüßler betrug der entsprechende Wert 44%.Es werden die Ergebnisse, der kumulative Effekt von Herbiziden und Pydanon sowie die Ursachen der aufgetretenen Mindererträge diskutiert und die Voraussetzungen angedeutet, die für einen mehrjährigen Bekämpfungserfolg zu fordern sind.

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On the suitability of plant growth regulators for pest control

With reference to former investigations with wooden plants, the development of herbaceous winter rape could be retarded by treatments with the growth regulator PYDANON (derivate of pyridazinyl acetic acid, 25 kg/ ha) for about 2 weeks.In the mean of 6 fields in 2 years the population density of the brassica pod midge was reduced to about 90%. The respective value for the reduction of the cabbage seed weevil was 44%.The results, the cumulating effect between PYDANON and herbicides and the reasons for the observed yield reduction are discussed. Furthermore, the basic requirements are outlined, which are to be demanded for a control, lasting several years.

     

Integrated Pest Management of stored-product insects: practical utilization of pheromones

The use of pheromones is one of the most promising techniques aimed at the control of stored-product insects. The use of these substances may lead to a drastic reduction of chemical treatments, thus determining remarkable economic advantages and improvement of product quality.In recent years, considerable progress has been made in monitoring and control of stored-product insects by using mass trapping, mating disruption and attracticide (lure and kill) methods.Integrated strategies based on the use of different treatments have yielded the best results. An important role should be assigned to all prevention techniques which effectively keep infested goods out of food-processing plants, mills, storehouses, etc.     

Active enzymes in wood chips and their action on lignin during outside storage

Summary Wood storage has a great influence on the efficiency of a pulpmill. Great problems arise when using outside chip storage, especially in processing hardwoods, in that hardwood chips discolorate after a few days, which is not the case with spruce chips. The causes of such a different behavior of beech and spruce were investigated. It could be shown that a sufficient amount of active peroxidase, malate dehydrogenase and oxygen are prerequisites for the formation of phenoxy radicals within the beech lignin. This causes formation of new chromophores that discolorize the wood. Sufficient amounts of such enzymes are present in beech wood after harvesting.     

Laminar sorption and swelling theory for wood and cellulose

Summary The known requirements for the sorption and swelling of wood are reviewed. These are shown to be compatible, in the case of softwoods, with the following simplified model. The fibers are continuous with either rectangular or circular cross sections and lumen of the same shape with a constant size. The fiber walls consist of concentric lamina made up of small repeating units 100 Å by 100 Å, consisting of a microcrystalline core surrounded by an amorphous sheath. All sorption and swelling occurs at the surfaces of or within the amorphous sheath. The major portion of the sorption and swelling is inter-laminar with just sufficient intra-laminar sorption and swelling to avoid laminar distortion. Calculations give the generally accepted internal sorption surface for water of about 200 square meters per gram. The portion of the total sorption that is intra-laminar varies from 5 ... 20 percent in going from wood with a specific gravity of 0.3 ... 1.0. Thickness of sorption in water molecules per sorption site vary from 6.1 ... 4.9 for inter-laminar sorption and 0.35 ... 1.35 for intra-laminar sorption in going from wood with a specific gravity of 0.3 to one of 1.0. Similar values are obtained from experimental swelling data where lumen cross sections change. Similar calculations for super swelling of wood and pulps show that laminar separations may become sufficiently great to be microscopically visible. The calculations show that bound water fiber saturation points for wood normally fall in the range of 25 ... 40 percent. Super swollen wood, chemically isolated fibers and beaten fibers may as a result of reduced restraints have fiber saturation points greater than 150 percent. The latter are attributed to dispersion or diffusion forces rather than the conventional bound water forces of hydrogen bonding for intact wood.

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Zusammenfassung Die bekannten Bedingungen für die Sorption und Quellung von Holz werden erörtert. Sie sind auf Nadelholz unter Anwendung des folgenden, vereinfachten Modells anwendbar. Die Fasern sind durchgehend und haben rechteckigen oder kreisförmigen Querschnitt, mit Zellhohlräumen gleicher Form und konstanter Größe. Die Faserwände bestehen aus konzentrisch angeordneten Schichten, die wiederum aus kleinen, sich wiederholenden 100 ×100 großen Einheiten zusammengesetzt sind; diese wiederum bestehen aus einem mikrokristallinen Kern, umgeben von einer amorphen Auflagerung. Alle Sorptions- und Quellungsvorgänge finden an der Oberfläche oder innerhalb dieser amorphen Auflagerung statt; sie spielen sich in der Hauptsache in der Schicht selbst ab (inter-laminar), jedoch findet genügend Zwischenschicht-Sorption und-Quellung (intra-laminar) statt, um Verformungen der Schichten zu vermeiden. Durch Berechnung erhält man die allgemein anerkannte Größe der inneren Sorptionsfläche für Wasser von etwa 200 m²/g. Der Anteil der intra-laminaren Sorption an der Gesamtsorption schwankt zwischen 5 und 20% bei Holz mit Rohdichten von 0.3 bis 1.0. Die Schichtdicke der sorbierten Wassermoleküle je Sorptionsstelle liegt für inter-laminare Sorption zwischen 6.1 und 4.9, und für intra-laminare Sorption zwischen 0.35 und 1.35 bei Holz mit Rohdichten zwischen 0.3 bis 1.0. Ähnliche Werte ergaben sich aus experimentell ermittelten Quellungsdaten bei Zellhohlräumen mit sich änderndem Querschnitt. Vergleichbare Berechnungen der Super-Quellung des Holzes und des Zellstoffes zeigen, daß laminare Abtrennungen so groß werden können, daß sie mikroskopisch sichtbar werden. Sie zeigen ferner, daß die Fasersättigungspunkte bei gebundenem Wasser meist zwischen 25 und 40% liegen. Extrem gequollenes Holz, chemisch herausgelöste und gemahlene Fasern können aufgrund verringerter Behinderung Fasersättigungspunkte über 150% erreichen. Diese letztere Erscheinung ist eher den Dispersions- oder Diffusionskräften zuzuschreiben als den Kräften aus Wasserstoffbrücken des gebundenen Wassers im intakten Holz.

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Paper No. 2743 of the Journal Series of the N. C. State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Anselme Payen award paper of the Cellulose, Wood and Fiber Div., Am. Chem. Soc. presented at their 156th National Meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey, September, 1968.     

Einige Eigenschaften des weiblichen Sexualpheromons des KartoffelkäfersLeptinotarsa decemlineata Say. (Col. Chrysomelidae)

The female sex pheromone ofL. decemlineata is an aphrodisiacum, switching on mating behaviour in contacting males. A biotest is described to estimate quantitatively the exciting power of a subject (female, isolated elytrae, glass dummy coated with extract) to males. The pheromone is present only in fertile females, also in freshly killed ones. It can be extracted by organic solvents. A dummy imitating a beetle's abdomen and contaminated with the residue of a female s wash solution is exciting to males too. Suitable solvents are ethylalcohol, acetonet, hexane. By this, the pheromone of 0,1 female is detectable. The residue can be taken up again with the same or an other solvent. The solution can be stored at ?18°C without significant losses, but at temperatures>+5°C their efficacy diminishes during 2 weeks. The exciting efficacy of the dry residue desreases to about 50% during nearly 4 weeks (at+22°C) or 9 weeks (at+5°C). The pheromone resists heating to about+160°C and is destroyed at higher temperatures.     

Bioactivity of some formulations of neem seed extracts against the whiteflyBemisia tabaci (Genn.)

The bioactivity of different formulations of neem seed extracts against the whiteflyBemisia tabaci (Genn.) was assayed in semifield trials during 1992. Tomato plants variety UC-97 were cultivated in pots and left to natural infestation with whitefly in an open field and sprayed with various concentrations of each extract. The high concentrations of all the extracts tested exhibited obvious activity. Also, the different treatments reduced the population density of the adult whiteflies compared with the control. The percentage reduction in the population reached its maximum level one hour after treatment with any tested extract.With one table     

Antagonismusin vitro vonBacillus spp. gegenüberRhizoctonia solani undPythium spp.

Zusammenfassung Es konnten 132Bacillus-Stämme isoliert und gegenüber7 Rhizoctonia-solani- und 6Pythium-Stämmen auf Antagonismusin vitro untersucht werden. Die gefundenen Antagonisten hemmten die Pilzisolate unterschiedlich stark, so daß Gemische von Antagonisten für die Praxis zu empfehlen sind.

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Antagonismin vitro ofBacillus spp. againstRhizoctonia solani andPythium spp.

There were 132Bacillus-strains isolated and tested for antagonism against 7 strains ofRhizoctonia solani and 6 strains ofPythium spp. The isolated antagonists didn't show a uniform effect against the tested strains ofRhizoctonia solani andPythium spp. For an application in practice it will be better to use a mixture of antagonists.

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