Akram Alghamdi

Biological Characteristics of Indigenous Chrysoperla carnea (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) Fed on a Natural and an Alternative Prey

Akram Alghamdi & Samy Sayed · Asian Journal of Biology · 2017

Studying of prey suitability for indigenous insect predators is very important factor for their mass rearing in the future. We tested the effects of two different prey species on the preimaginal stages parameters and adult bionomics of the indigenous predator, Chrysoperla carnea...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/AJOB/2017/32296

The Antibacterial Activity of Induced and Non-induced Usherhopper, Poekilocerus bufonius Hemolymph

Samy Sayed, Othman Alzahrani & Akram Alghamdi · Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology · 2016

Aim: Insects secret antimicrobial peptides into the hemolymph to protect themselves against bacterial infection. This study aimed to test the antibacterial activity of the usherhopper, Poekilocerus bufonius hemolymph against positive (two species) and negative (six species) gram...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/JABB/2016/29030