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What Makes Mountain Pine Beetle a Tricky Pest? Difficult Decisions when Facing Beetle Attack in a Mixed Species Forest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The pine forest of British Columbia is undergoing its largest recorded pest epidemic. The damage caused by native mountain pine beetle creates difficulties for the public owner of the resource, which is interested in protecting future timber supply while
Kooten, G.C., van, Bogle, T.
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Olfaction in the Spruce Bark Beetle, Ips typographus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The bark beetle Ips typographus regularly kills spruce trees in the Palearctic. Spruces are colonized by means of attraction to an aggregation pheromone. Attraction is modulated by anti-attractive volatiles (NHV) from non-host plants.
Andersson, Martin
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Blister Beetle Toxicity in Horses

open access: yes, 2019
Blister beetles belong to a family of beetles called Meloidae. This family contains approximately 300 species distributed across the continental United States, including 150 in Arizona. Blister beetles have a peculiar life cycle.
Mostafa, Ayman   +3 more
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Striped blister beetle on soybeans

open access: yes, 1927
Describes the characteristics of the striped blister beetle, the damage it causes to soybeans, and methods of ...
Ingram, J. W. (Jesse Wilburn), b. 1900   +1 more
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White Pine Blister Rust Severity and Selection of Individual Whitebark Pine by the Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

open access: yes, 2007
We investigated whether white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) (J.C. Fischer in Rabenh.) severity, tree diameter at breast height (DBH), bark and phloem thickness, and sapwood moisture content influence the preference of the mountain pine beetle ...
Joel Adams, Diana L. Six
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Detection of cantharidin-related compounds in Mylabris impressa (Coleoptera: Meloidae)

open access: yesJournal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2007
Cantharidin is mainly found in the beetle families Meloidae and Oedemeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) which are the natural producers of this terpene anhydride.
M. R. Nikbakhtzadeh, B. Ebramihi
doaj   +1 more source

Cereal leaf beetle standardized survey methods

open access: yes, 2001
These standardized survey methods were designed by the Western Cereal Leaf Beetle Working Group (WCLBWG) in the spring of 2001. The WCLBWG serves as an informal scientific forum and regional partnership to foster the exchange information pertaining to ...
Western Cereal Leaf Beetle Team
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Olfaction in the Colorado beetle at the onset of host plant selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
Long-range olfactory orientation of the adult Colorado beetle was studied in a low- speed wind tunnel. The odour of fully grown potato plants elicits an upwind locomotory response in Colorado beetles (odour-conditioned positive anemotaxis), and increases
Visser, J.H.
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Blister Beetles in Alfalfa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Blister beetles are Iong cylindrical beetles that may be black, gray, yellow and brown striped, black with gray margins on the wing covers or black with a red head. These insects are usually found feeding in clusters on alfalfa.
Townsend, Lee H., Christensen, C. M.
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Children's ingestion of blister beetles causing cantharidin poisoning: two pediatric cases in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesSaudi Journal of Emergency Medicine
Background: Cantharidin, a toxic substance produced by Meloidae (Coleoptera family) beetles, poses serious health risks upon ingestion, including renal impairment, hematemesis, altered consciousness, electrolyte imbalances, and hematuria.
Musa Alfaifi   +4 more
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