Descrição da fêmea de Lutzomyia wilsoni (Damasceno e Causey, 1945) (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)

Os autores descrevem a fêmea de L. wilsoni (Damasceno e Causey, 1945), por eles conhecida desde 1963, porém somente agora publicada, e que é extremamente semelhante à de L. saulensis (Floch e Abonnenc, 1944), o que mostra a estreita afinidade entre as duas espécies. É, também, dada a distribuição geográfica atualmente conhecida de L. wilsoni.

Biology of Triatoma pallidipennis stal 1945 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae:Triatominae) under laboratory conditions

Aspects related to hatching, life time, mortality, feeding behaviour and fecundity for each stage of Triatoma pallidipennis life-cycle were evaluated. The hatching rate observed for 200 eggs was 60% and the average time of hatching was 18 days. Eighty nymphs (N) (40%) completed the cycle and the average time from NI to adult was 168.7±11.7days. The average span in days for each stage was 18.0 for NI, 18.5 for NII, 30.0 for NIII, 35.7 for NIV and 50.1 for NV. The number of bloodmeals at each nymphal stage varied from 1 to 5. The mortality rate was 9.17 for NI, 5.5 for NII, 6.8 for NIII 4.17 for NIV and 13.04 for NV nymphs. The average number of eggs laid per female in a 9-month period was 498.6. The survival rates of adults were 357±217.9 and 262.53±167.7 for males and females respectively.

Redução de aplicações de inseticidas através da adoção de táticas de manejo integrado do Triozoida limbata (Enderlein, 1918) (Hemiptera: triozidae) em goiabeira

A praga de goiabeira que tem requerido maior frequência de controle, na região de Jaboticabal-SP, nos últimos anos, é o psilídeo Triozoida limbata. Assim, esta pesquisa objetivou: a) Comparar táticas de controle de T. limbata baseadas no monitoramento e na seletividade de inseticidas, visando a diminuir as aplicações; b) Registrar e correlacionar os inimigos naturais habitantes no agroecossistema goiabeira com a praga-chave e com fatores meteorológicos; c) Constatar se o controle de T. limbata afeta a população de moscas-das-frutas, e d) Verificar a eficiência de inseticidas adequados ao MIP, no controle de T. limbata. O experimento foi conduzido com a cultivar Paluma, em 2004, no município de Vista Alegre do Alto-SP. As estratégias utilizadas foram (doses em g.i.a./100L de água): testemunha; imidacloprid (4,0); imidacloprid + beta-cyfluthrin (2,5 + 0,3); acetamiprid (4,0); fenpropathrin (15,0), e tratamento convencional regional. Através dos resultados, conclui-se que é possível diminuir o número de aplicações e utilizar inseticidas menos agressivos ao meio ambiente e ao homem, com a adoção do monitoramento de T. limbata e aplicação no nível de ação. As densidades populacionais dos inimigos naturais (Scymnus spp., Cycloneda sanguinea, Azia luteipes, Crysoperla spp., Polybia spp., Brachygastra spp.) apresentam correlações positivas com as densidades populacionais de T. limbata. As flutuações populacionais de T. limbata e dos inimigos naturais não são alteradas pelos fatores meteorológicos (precipitação e temperatura), em pomar irrigado. A população de Anastrepha spp. é minimizada quando as aplicações são para controlar T. limbata. Os inseticidas imidacloprid, imidacloprid + beta-cyfluthrin, acetamiprid e fenpropathrin são eficientes no controle de T. limbata.

Connections: can the 20th century coronary heart disease epidemic reveal something about the 1918 influenza lethality?

This essay proposes that the ecologic association shown between the 20th century coronary heart disease epidemic and the 1918 influenza pandemic could shed light on the mechanism associated with the high lethality of the latter. It suggests that an autoimmune interference at the apoB-LDL interface could explain both hypercholesterolemia and inflammation (through interference with the cellular metabolism of arachidonic acid). Autoimmune inflammation, then, would explain the 1950s-60s acute coronary events (coronary thrombosis upon influenza re-infection) and the respiratory failure seen among young adults in 1918. This hypothesis also argues that the lethality of the 1918 pandemic may have not depended so much on the 1918 virus as on an immune vulnerability to it, possibly resulting from an earlier priming of cohorts born around 1890 by the 1890 influenza pandemic virus.

Salários, produtividade e lucros na indústria brasileira, 1945-1978

Wages, productivity and profits in the Brazilian manufacturing industry, 1945-1978. This article investigates the distribution between profits and wages in Brazil's manufacturing industry from 1945 to 1978. First, the article provides yearly series of average real wages and labour productivity, from which labour unit costs and the distribution between profits and wages in the manufacturing industry are estimated. Second, the article addresses the behaviour of wages, labour productivity and industrial income distribution in the context of variable economic, political and institutional conditions which prevailed in post-war Brazil. The results of the quantitative analysis allow us to assess both the trends and the yearly behaviour of the manufacturing income distribution during a key period of the Brazilian economic history.