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Scorpion sting is a public health problem in Khuzestan, South-West Iran. The aims of the current study were to monitor the hospitalized children, due to scorpion sting, and releasing more clinical and epidemiologic data related to scorpionism in this Province. In this retrospective study, the data of scorpion sting victims, among the hospitalized children in Abuzar Children Hospital of Ahvaz Jundi Shapur University of Medical Sciences, was analyzed from the points of epidemiological and clinical aspects in 2006. The scorpion species of 18 files out of 57 were recognized accurately, using Farzanpay key of Iranian scorpions, asAndroctonus crassicauda [Scorpionida: Buthidae] and Hemiscorpious lepturus [Scorpionida: Hemiscorpiidae]. The most scorpionism emergencies among the children in the Khuzestan should be paid to those species. However, H. lepturus sting emergencies are in the top of attention among the children
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Combination of cyromazine as an Insect Growth Regulator [IGR] and Nasonia vitripennis [Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae] a parasitic wasp may be an effective tool for reducing the house-fly populations in poultry houses and livestock farms. This study was conducted to assess the side effects of the IGR cyromazine on the level of parasitism and numbers and the longevity of emerged N. vitripennis parasitoids from house fly pupae. Cyromazine treated cloth target was used as the contaminating method of the parasitoids which was applied in this research study. The Weibull distribution showed that there was no significant difference among controls and cyromazine treated targets for longevity data. There was no significant effect of cyromazine on the level of parasitism of N. vitripennis using ?2 test. One-way ANOVA showed that the actual numbers emerging were significantly higher in the control than in two cyromazine treatments; however, it is a useful phenomenon because of reducing the hyperparasitism. There is a good consistency between using N. vitripennis and 1.1% or 0.9% cyromazine treated targets. Therefore cyromazine treated targets can be applied as a safe delivery vehicle for applying the cyromazine IGR in the poultry houses and livestock farms in an Integrated Pest Management [IPM] program