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When Winters Fail: How Warming Winters Fuel Pest Resurgence and Threaten Food Security

Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata, Wiedemann; Diptera: Tephritidae), commonly known as the Medfly, re‐emerged in Mazandaran province, northern Iran—home to an estimated 25% of the nation's fruit crops and approximately 80% of its citrus production—following its apparent eradication in 1984, an outcome consistent with several ...
Mostafa Farajpour, Shahab Mirinejad, Mitra Moezipour, Mohammad Sadat‐Hosseini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Soil Reduce Oviposition By the Leaf Herbivore Ostrinia nubilalis

Plant, Cell &Environment, Volume 49, Issue 11, Page 9265-9267, November 2026.
Paul Anton Himmighofen, Arletys Maria Verdecia‐Mogena, Sabine Kurz, Markus Frank, Gaetan Glauser, Pierre Mateo, Christelle Aurélie Maud Robert   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Complex multitrophic species interactions and fitness costs: Intricate consequences of jasmonate and salicylate induced plant defences

Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 95, Issue 10, Page 1859-1875, October 2026.
This study reveals how long‐term activation of jasmonic and salicylic acid signalling reshapes arthropod communities and plant fitness across seasons. By showing that induced defences generate contrasting outcomes and cascading trade‐offs across trophic levels, it challenges the assumption that induced resistance is uniformly beneficial in natural ...
Mônica F. Kersch‐Becker, Guilherme P. Pinheiro, Thaís S. Schweller, Martin Pareja, Victoria M. Pocius, José R. Trigo, Gustavo Q. Romero   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Varroa‐Sensitive Hygiene (VSH) as a Potential Contributor to the Natural Survival of Ethiopian Honey Bees (Apis mellifera simensis) Against Varroa destructor Mite [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study investigated Varroa‐sensitive hygiene (VSH) in worker brood cells of Apis mellifera simensis artificially infested with a single Varroa destructor mite. Removal responses reached 64.9% and 83.7% in patches of eight and ten neighbouring infested cells, respectively, compared with 21.5% and 23.1% in controls, while uncapping responses reached ...
Tsegaye A, Aynalem T, Taye M, Ayalew W, Jenberie A, Chege M, Tefera T, Nganso B.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Facultative interspecific brood parasitism in tits: a last resort to coping with nest-hole shortage

, 2015
We studied the occurrence of facultative interspecific brood parasitism (eggs from two species incubated by a single female) in two bird species, the blue (Cyanistes caeruleus) and the great tit (Parus major).
Eva Serrano-Davies, Barrientos, Rafael, Bueno-Enciso, Javier, Rafael Barrientos, Serrano-Davies, Eva, Javier Bueno-Enciso, Juan José Sanz, Sanz, Juan José, Barrientos Yuste, Rafael, Serrano Davies, Eva, Bueno Enciso, Javier   +10 more
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Co‐phylogeny and biogeography of the myrmecophilous beetle Paussus favieri (Carabidae, Paussinae) and its host ant Pheidole pallidula (Hymenoptera, Myrmicinae)

Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 2210-2226, October 2026.
Strict patterns of co‐divergence have rarely been documented other than among organisms and their symbionts. In this paper, using a molecular approach, we inferr the population‐level phylogenies of a Mediterranean ant species Pheidole pallidula and its nest parasite, the obligate myrmecophilous beetle Paussus favieri. We then investigate the role of co‐
Davide Bergamaschi, Wendy Moore, Andrea Di Giulio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Data from: Parasitism in early life: environmental conditions shape intra-brood variation in responses to infection

, 2015
Parasites play key ecological and evolutionary roles through the costs they impose on their host. In wild populations, the effect of parasitism is likely to vary considerably with environmental conditions, which may affect the availability of resources ...
Takahashi, Emi A., UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lewis, Sue, Herborn, Katherine A., Newell, Mark A., Cunningham, Emma J. A., University of Edinburgh, Reed, Thomas E., University of Glasgow, Daunt, Francis, Burthe, Sarah J., School of Biological Sciences, Granroth-Wilding, Hanna M. V.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Darwin's Naturalization Conundrum in the Azores: Scale‐Dependent Patterns of Arthropod Invasion

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To test the mechanisms governing the assembly of exotic arthropods within endemic‐rich island communities by evaluating Darwin's naturalization conundrum, which predicts that invasion success occurs through either functional dissimilarity from native species (Naturalization Hypothesis) or functional similarity with them (Pre‐adaptation ...
Guilherme Oyarzabal, Pedro Cardoso, François Rigal, Mário Boieiro, Ana M. C. Santos, Isabel R. Amorim, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ricardo Costa, Sébastien Lhoumeau, Gábor Pozsgai, Rosalina Gabriel, Paulo A. V. Borges   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fine‐scale genetic structure in co‐operatively breeding Palmchats (Dulus dominicus) suggests mixed kinship in compound nests

Ibis, Volume 168, Issue 4, Page 1378-1390, October 2026.
Fine‐scale genetic structure in animal populations can create opportunities for both kin‐directed co‐operation and kin competition. Knowledge of kinship is therefore key to understanding the selective pressures shaping sociality as well as the effects of social behaviour on local genetic structure.
Joshua B. LaPergola, Gavin M. Leighton, Christina Riehl   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biogeography and Reinterpretation of the Evolution of Paternal Care Scenario in Belostomatidae (Insecta, Hemiptera)

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 10, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim To estimate the origin and diversification times of the main lineages of Belostomatidae, with emphasis on the subfamilies Belostomatinae and Lethocerinae; to reconstruct the biogeographical history of the family's representatives, estimating which locations may have served as important sources of immigration and emigration events and ...
José Ricardo Inacio Ribeiro, Fabiano Stefanello, Shin‐ya Ohba, Eric Guilbert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source