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The present work aimed to examine the attractiveness of ten new pollen supplemental diets to honey bees (Apis mellifera) through evaluating the consumption rate, besides their efficiency in supporting the colony through measuring colony growth (sealed workers brood area). Twelve materials were used and mixed with honey bee in different proportions forming diets taking numbers from 1 to 10. These materials were flours of: gram seeds, beans seeds, pea seeds, fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, anise seeds, white kidney beans seeds, caraway seeds, rice seeds, fennel seeds and oats. Diets were consumed at rates that were comparable to the control (sugar candy). Generally differences among consumption rates of supplemental pollen diets were highly significant. The highest consumed amounts were recorded in colonies fed on diet (1); 47.42gm/ colony in average, mix. (2); 43.35 gm/ colony in each week. While the lowest consumption rate (27.3 gm/ colony) in each week was recorded for diet no. 10 in average. There was a significant relationship between the amount of diet consumed and the increase in workers sealed brood area. Where colonies fed with mixture diets from gram seeds (Diet 2), dried pea with rice, fennel and fenugreek (Diet 3), dried beans seeds with fennel seeds (Diet 4) and oats, rice, anise seeds (Diet 1), showed 53.71%, 38.44%, 35.98% and 5.85% more brood area than control ones.

One of the chronic problems that pose a serious threat for honey beesˈ continuity and survival is pollen and nectar deficiency caused by annual weather fluctuations. The current study aims to find an effective solution for this problem by providing honey bee colonies with diets characterized by appropriate cost, nutritional rich value, palatability and positive impacts on various biological activities. Three new artificial diets were prepared, diet W: based on wheat germ, diet S: based on soya beans and diet M: based on a mixture of equal proportions of wheat germ and soya beans. In the current study, several investigations have been performed including consumption rates of examined diets, sealed worker brood, stored honey areas, coloniesˈ strengths and pollen grainsˈ weights. Outstanding palatability rates were reported for examined diets, especially for diet S. Moreover, distinguished impacts for all investigated diets have been recorded by fed colonies, including sealed brood areas, produced honey areas, population densities and collected pollen. Consequently, the current study highly recommend diets W, S and M to be applied in apiaries due to their prominent results related to activity and strength development of honey bee colonies.

This work aims to compare between the forensic insect species, their succession patterns and decomposition stages of rabbit corpses killed with different methods in Qena city, Egypt. Four experiments were carried out during this study for four successive seasons. Four rabbits were placed in each experiment, the first two rabbits received a double LD50 of tramadol hydrochloride and cypermethrin via ear vein injection. The third rabbit was slaughtered while the fourth rabbit was euthanized with air injection (control). The LD50 of tramadol and cypermethrin in male rabbit was calculated from logarithmic scale and found to be 132 mg/kg and 126 µ|/kg body weight, respectively.Currently, a total of 14271 insect individuals were collected from the screened bodies belonging to three orders, thirteen families and seventeen species. Moreover, corpses were colonized by different insect life stages (11689, 352 and 2230 individuals) included dipteran flies, Coleopteran and Hymenopteran insects, respectively The total number of species collected in summer was lower than in other seasons. Tramadol-treated rabbits decayed with similar rate to the control corpses during all seasons except in winter. As well as, decomposition process was significantly prolonged in cypermethrin killed rabbits during all seasons. However, slaughtered carrions decayed faster than control in winter and spring. Maggots deposited on cypermethrin-intoxicated carrions were very few and have been dead after few days from oviposition. Density of maggots collected from control corpse was loweras compared to the slaughtered one and higher than that on tramadol treated corpse. Therefore, these results are recommended to be taken in criminal investigations.

The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Curculionidae: Coleoptera), has been described as a major pest of coconut and date palm throughout Indian

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The sweep net was used for studying the relationship between predators (Hippodamia convergens Guer. and Chrysopa carnea Stephens) and preys (Aphis faba Scopoli, Aphis gossypii Glover and Myzus persicae Sulzer). Regular samples were collected weekly from Alfalfa at the two stations (A & B) in the two trapping years (March 2007-February 2009). The seasonal distributions showed that Hippodamia convergens Guer. ,Chrysopa carnea Steph., Aphis faba Scopoli, Aphis gossypii Glover and Myzus persicae Sulzer had three generations per year. The relationship between the activity of predators (H. convergens, C. carnea) and preys (A. faba, A. gossypii, M. persicae) explained that the more increasing in the predators the more decreasing in the population of the preys.