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P arvoviral gastroenteritis is a highly contagious viral disease which causes severe acute haemorrhagic enteritis and myocarditis in puppies over the age of 3-4 months. The disease is spread from dog to dog mainly through exposure to contaminated faeces and is caused by CPV-2. It is also spread through contact with fomites (contaminated objects). It is also spread through contact with fomites. Further, large pool of unvaccinated apparently healthy stray dogs may act as carriers without showing any symptoms and become source of infection to other susceptible dogs. The stools will be watery, yellow in colour or tinged with frank blood. Faeces can vary from soft in mild cases to grossly hemorrhagic in severe cases. Death ensues due to dehydration, leading to the peripheral circulatory failure. Parvovirus myocarditis is a condition of disease is caused by Canine parvovirus-2 (CPV-2). The virus can remain on a dog's hair coat and serve as a means of transmission long after dogs have recovered young dogs and primarily a lit

A total of 534 specimens of apoid wasps, representing 65 species were collected from Bengaluru. The wasps were identified to their respective subfamilies, generic and species levels. In general, species occurrence and their abundance were higher in dry zones and transitional zones and less in eastern transition zone. The most abundant genera were Chalybion, Sceliphron and Ammophila during 2017 and along with these Carinostigmus and Pison were abundant during 2018 in Bengaluru.

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