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ZooKeys, 2009 Adults of Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae: Brachinini), are largely nocturnal predators and scavengers on animal and plant materials. The daily food consumption of a pair of adults is the equivalent to 1.2 - 2.3 large
Howard Frank +2 more
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Palaeontology, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 547-559, July 2019., 2019 Abstract Hatching is a pivotal moment in the life of most animals. Diverse chemical, behavioural and mechanical methods have evolved in metazoans to break the egg membranes. Among them, many arthropod and vertebrate embryos hatch using ephemeral, frequently convergent structures known as egg bursters.
Ricardo Pérez‐de la Fuente +4 more
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It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects
Advanced Materials, Volume 30, Issue 19, May 10, 2018., 2018 Insects have evolved manifold optimized solutions to everyday problems. The diversity and precision of their hierarchical material adaptations often outsmart and outperform current man‐made approaches. These materials hence provide an excellent basis for the inspiration of new technological approaches by taking design cues from nature's solutions ...
Thomas B. H. Schroeder +3 more
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Ant‐Associated Beetle Fauna in Bulgaria: A Review and New Data
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 The rich myrmecofauna in Bulgaria, comprising about 170 species, constitutes favorable settings for a diverse associated fauna. An attempt to summarize the fragmented faunal data on this ecological group in Bulgaria, together with inclusion of new data, has resulted in a comprehensive list of 121 beetle species from 14 families, obligate or facultative
Albena Lapeva-Gjonova, Alain Lenoir
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Wildlife Biology, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 61-69, March 2008., 2008 Abstract Many researchers use bridges as search sites to monitor freshwater otter species along watercourses. Bridges enable rapid and easy access to their habitat, but for most otter species little is known on whether these anthropogenic structures affect their distribution, their marking preferences, and consequently, the ability of such surveys to ...
Daniel Gallant +2 more
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 644-666, May 2026.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city's circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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Beetles, barcodes and big data: A deep dive into the phylogeny of Harpalinae (Carabidae)
Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 2, April‐June 2026.The largest phylogenetic study of the Carabidae to date is provided with a focus on the Harpalinae. Using novel mitogenomes with a site‐based approach combined with data mining from GenBank and BOLD, we achieve dense coverage of the major Harpalinae sensu lato clades.
Beulah H. Garner +2 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 70, Issue 2, Page 94-116, 1963., 1963 In the course of exploratory field studies on arthropods with defensive glands, we came across two species which emit a strong and persistent phenolic odor when handled. One is a carabid beetle (Chlaenius cordicollis Kirby), the other a chordeumoid millipede [Abacion magnum (Loomis)].
T. Eisner, J. J. Hurst, J. Meinwald
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, 2019 Bombardier beetles are famous for their unique ability to explosively discharge hot quinones from their pygidial glands when threatened. Here we provide the first detailed description of the ultrastructure of the defensive gland system of the genus ...
Maurizio Muzzi +3 more
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Data from: Successful escape of bombardier beetles from predator digestive systems
, 2018 Some prey animals can escape from the digestive systems of predators after being swallowed. To clarify the ecological factors that determine the success of such an escape, we investigated how the bombardier beetle Pheropsophus jessoensis escapes from two
Sato, Takuya, Sugiura, Shinji
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