The proteins of larvae, pupae and adults (females, males) of almond seed
wasp Eurytoma amygdali -Eurytomidae, were extracted and electro -
pHoresied on polyacrylamide gel.
Results showed clear differences in the quality of proteins between larvae,
pupae and adults. The accumulation of proteins started in the initial stage of
larva and increased clearly in the second stage with a continuation in the first
stage of pupa, but mostly absent with the progress of the pupa in a lifetime. It
was observed that there were differences between the proteins found in females
from those in males by showing the presence of a protein when the females
from the age of one day and continued its existence until the age of 7 days and
this protein was essential in the formation of the yolk of ovocytes.
Cydia funebrana is the most important pests on almond and apple fruit,
caused damage to fruits and fall down before ripen but the most important
damage became in stores, In Syria, almond plantations are locations mainly in
central area, This study
was done in almond orchards during 2004 – 2008, we
found: C.funebrana had two generations in a year, but in 2008 had a third
generation that entered in diapauses in late time of the year. The flying graph
study showed that first peak was in late May (diapaused larvae), second in first
days of July (first generation), However a third peak was noted in mid-August
(second generation) in 2008. First, second and third generations lasted for 84,
74 and 44 days, respectively. parasitismstages: one Parasitoid belongs
Chalcidoidea egg–larvae parasitoid, Ascogaster quadridentatus, five Parasitoid
from larvae parasitoid, Bracon sp., Eupelmus sp., Pentalitomastix pyralis,
Monodontomus sp., and fifth one Goniozus sp., and two Parasitoid from larvaepupa
parasitoid, and one parasitoid from pupa parasitoid, it,s Pteromalus sp.
