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Nature, 1930 THE proboscis of the blowfly has been so often figured and described that students generally have no difficulty in understanding its structure and mode of working. There is, however, one small ambiguity that beginners are liable to find somewhat perplexing, especially when only balsam preparations are used, namely, the use of the word mouth to describe
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Diet breadth shapes gut microbiota in the invasive hornet Vespa velutina
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Dietary and microbial profiles of V. velutina larvae are dominated by Apidae and Firmicutes, respectively. DNA metabarcoding of larval meconium and gut samples reveals a significant positive correlation between prey richness and bacterial diversity in the invasive hornet V. velutina. Multiple significant correlations exist between dietary and microbial
Cayetano Herrera +3 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.The Australian carrion‐breeding Calliphorinae are revised using an integrative approach combining morphology and mitogenomics. A new taxonomic key, morphological images and verified mitogenomic data, including COX1 barcodes, are provided to support the identification of species.
Liam B. D. C. Foley +4 more
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Adult Blow Flies Host Diverse Carrion‐Associated Microbiomes
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 53, Issue 3, September 2026.Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) perform important yet often overlooked roles in ecosystems as decomposers, pollinators and vectors of disease. Central to these functions are their associations with microbial communities, which are maintained through close contact with diverse microbe‐rich substrates such as carrion, dung and flowers.
Paige Matheson +5 more
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Brazilian Journal of BiologyIn this study we describe the diversity of Mesembrinelinae in a biological reserve in the city of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro. Traps containing sardines were distributed seasonally, at four sites: Site A (22° 58.788’ S, 43° 43.459’ W), in a ...
B. Q. Gadelha +3 more
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Postembryonic development of the predatory strike mechanics in a praying mantis (Insecta: Mantodea)
Physiological Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 377-396, September 2026.Praying mantis forelegs capture prey using specific kinematic and kinetic traits that change in size and morphology during postembryonic growth and sexual dimorphism influences these dynamics. Strike forces grow hyperallometrically with body weight; larger mantises show longer strike durations, slower joint angular velocities and increased tibia ...
Thies H. Büscher +3 more
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Stability of positive equilibrium of a Nicholson blowflies model with stochastic perturbations
Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, 2020 This paper is concerned with the stability problem of the positive equilibrium of a Nicholson's blowflies model with nonlinear density-dependent mortality rate subject to stochastic perturbations.
Le Van Hien, Nguyen Thi Lan-Huong
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Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 8, Page 1358-1371, August 2026.Our study contributes to our understanding of the effects of interspecific competition in species with biparental care where male and female parents must somehow coordinate their response to interspecific competition. Abstract Interspecific competition is an important evolutionary driver of many species' life histories and behaviours, arising wherever ...
Casey Patmore, Per T. Smiseth
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Ecological and social factors lead to variation in parental care between sexes in a burying beetle
Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1618-1632, August 2026.We experimentally investigated the effects of ecological (resource availability and interspecific competition) and social factors (intraspecific competition) on parental care and reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Our results showed that males and females adjust their parental care based on resource availability and ...
Donghui Ma, Long Ma, Jan Komdeur
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Influences of Carrion Decomposition on Soil Nutrient Leakage in a Boreal Forest
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.We studied elemental leakage into the soil due to carrion decomposition in a boreal forest in Norway. We found that longer carrion decomposition times resulted in increased concentrations of N, Na and B in the soil. To our knowledge, we are the first that included a wide range of chemical elements in our analysis, including macro and trace elements ...
E. Wenting +5 more
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