The present work deals with the seasonal fluctuations of the entomophagous insects associated with alfalfa fields in Hammam AI-Alil during the two successive seasons 1976 and 1977. The predators surveyed were the coccinellids, Coccinella septempunctata, Scymnus marginicollis and S. bivurrucatus; the syrphids, Syrphus corollae and Sphaerophoria scripta; the chrysopid, Chrysopa carnea, the staphylinid, Paederus ilsae and the anthocorid, Orius sp. The seasonal fluctuations, which were investigated for each species, revealed that C. septempunctata was the most abundant species as it represented 53.7% of the total number of predators. The highest activity of this predator was attained during June. However, C. carnea, Scymnus spp. and syrphid flies followed the previous species in accordance to their numbers; comprising 14.8, 14.3 and 13.7%, respectively. On the other hand. Paederus ilsae and Orius sp. showed the lowest counts. In addition, the ichneumonid parasite, Diadegma fenestratis HOLM which attacks Hypera brunnipennis was also detected during March and April.

This article reveals the first record of the parasitoid wasp, Monodontomerus obscurus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) from Iraq. A total of 27 specimens were emerged from mud nests of sphecoid wasp of Sceliphron sp. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), that collected from a wall at a residential garden in Dohuk province. A short morphological description is presented.

This study was carried out from March, 2013 to the end of December,2014.Including several experiments only on adult house fly, in the growth chamber ofthe Department of Plant Protection,and Central Laboratory in Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Duhok,Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The experimental flies were collected from field of the(Delbe) village 5km. away from the West Duhok city using the hand net, during summer of 2013.The results showed the electrical shock gave 117.60 b/ min.During studying the biological phenomena after the treatment of the flies by electric shock, it was shown that the subsequent generation that was raised from insect had reduced mating process. Also it was observed that the emerged adult appeared to be handicap such sluggish with slow movement. Two days excess increased the emerged flies but the larval intervals extended to a long time and after few days the insects were unable to emerge and died, while half of their body was out of puparium.

This work is the first study of the Curculionoidea fauna from Kurdistan region of Iraq, based on the intensive survey in different localities of Kurdistan from March 2016 to November 2017. In total, 41 species belonging to 28 genera, 21 tribes and 3 families were collected and identified, including 25 species newly recorded for the Iraqi fauna. General distribution, collecting localities and methods, with plant association data for each species are given.