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History of Entomology in India

HISTORY OF ENTOMOLOGY IN INDIA Ancient Indian: • Honey has been known to us from pre-historic times. Honey finds mention in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the quran and many ancient books. Rigvedas mentions honey as the choist food of god (3000-5000 B.C) • Atharva veda gives a brief account of Lac, the lac insects and usefulness values of lac . In Mahabharata, there is a reference of Laksha Griha i.e , a house of lac implies that lac had been cultivated in India from pre-historic times. • Silk production is believed to have originated in China nearly 5000 years ago and slowly spread to India. An Indian prince sends a gift of silk cloth to a Persian ruler in 3870 B.C, indicating that Indians were familiar with the rearing of silkworm. • In ancient scripts like Ramayana and Mahabharata, some of the terms used were related to insects. They are Pipilika – Ant, Pathanga – grasshoppers, Madhumakshika – honey bees, Umbakapalika ...

Muniba Mazari...

Muniba Mazari Baloch ( Urdu : منیبہ مزاری‎; born 3 March 1987) is a Pakistani artist, model, activist, motivational speaker and television host. She uses a wheelchair due to injuries sustained in a car accident at the age of 21 which makes her Pakistan's first wheelchair bound model. She is also the National Ambassador for UN Women Pakistan . She is also a singer and activist. Muniba Mazari Muniba Mazari is of Baloch background. In 2007, Muniba met with an accident on her way to her hometown, Balochistan , where her husband fell asleep at the wheel and drove the car into a ditch but he jumped out and saved himself. That accident has made her paraplegic, but despite initial struggles to support her family, has softened her spirit for helping others. Along with philanthropic efforts, she has established her brand known as Muniba's Canvas with the slogan Let Your Walls Wear Colors . Her medium is acrylics on canvas. Muniba Maz...

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL The successful management of a pest by means of another living organism (parasitoids, predators and pathogens) that is encouraged and disseminated by man is called biological control. In such programme the natural enemies are introduced, encouraged, multiplied by artificial means and disseminated by man with his own efforts instead of leaving it to nature. The term biological control was first used by Smith in 1919 to signify the use of natural enemies to control insect pests. Natural Control: The maintainance of population numbers within certain upper and lower limits by the action of a combination of abiotic and biotic factors as well as the characteristic of the species under consideration is called natural control. History and development of biological control and classical examples of biological control First use of insect predators was in 900AD, when Chinese citrus growers used red ant ( Oecophylla smaragdina ) on the citrus trees to contro...

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