EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Vol 1 No 1 (2011)

Editorial
Pavel Kindlmann

Dominance of the multicoloured Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in an undisturbed wild meadow ecosystem
Élise Bélanger, Éric Lucas

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in invasive and native populations of Harmonia axyridis
Ilya A. Zakharov, Irina I. Goryacheva, Anton Suvorov

Mate choice and polyandry benefit reproduction and progeny fitness in the ladybird Hippodamia variegata (Goeze)
Ahmad Pervez, Navodita Maurice

Duration of development and survival of larvae of Coccinella transversalis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) fed on aphids and alternative foods
Navodita Maurice, Ahmad Pervez, Ashwani Kumar, P. W. Ramteke

Effectiveness of Lysiphlebus testaceïpes Cresson as biocontrol agent of Aphis gossypii Glover infesting pepper plants
M. Ben Halima Kamel

Improvement in the cold storage of Aphidius ervi (Hymenoptera: Aphidiinae)
Isabelle Frère, Carole Balthazar, Ahmed Sabri, Thierry Hance

Influence of landscape structure on the functional groups of an aphidophagous guild: Active-searching predators, furtive predators and parasitoids
Julie-Éléonore Maisonhaute, Éric Lucas

Study of two conditioning methods of parasitoids used in biological control prior to inundative releases in apple orchards
Valérie-Anne Dumont, Antoine Trigaux, Anaïs Moreau, Thierry Hance

Assessment of patch quality by aphidophagous ladybirds: laboratory study on the minimum density of aphids required for oviposition
B. C. Das, A. F. G. Dixon

Fast–slow continuum in the life history parameters of ladybirds revisited
A. F. G. Dixon, B. Agarwala, J.-L. Hemptinne, A. Honěk, V. Jarošík

Some exclusion cages do not exclude predators
Olga M. C. C. Ameixa, Pavel Kindlmann