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Occurrence of electronically excited products during the defensive reaction of bombardier beetles
K Peschke
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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
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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The long-awaited first instar larva of Paussus favieri (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussini)
Paussus favieri Fairmaire is one of only two species of the myrmecophilous carabid tribe Paussini known from Europe. Larvae are known from only 10 of the 580 paussine species.
Andrea DI GIULIO +3 more
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Ant‐Associated Beetle Fauna in Bulgaria: A Review and New Data
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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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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Chemical Defense of an Ozaenine Bombardier Beetle From New Guinea
We had occasion recently to study 3 live specimens of Pseudozaena orientalis opaca, an ozaenine carabid beetle (subfamily Paussinae, tribe Ozaenini) from New Guinea, and report here on the biology and chemistry of its defensive spray mechanism. A number of New World ozaenines had previously been studied chemically and shown to be “bombardiers” that ...
Thomas Eisner +6 more
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
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)
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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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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