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Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing [PDF]

, 2002
Relocation of the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, by bee-keepers from southern to northern South Africa in 1990 has caused widespread death of managed African honeybee, A. m. scutellata, colonies.
A Barron, BP Oldroyd, BP Oldroyd, FL Ratnieks, FLW Ratnieks, FLW Ratnieks, FLW Ratnieks, Francis L. W. Ratnieks, L Nunney, Madeleine Beekman, MH Allsopp, P Kryger, P Neumann, PK Visscher, S Verma, SG Downs, SG Downs, Stephen J. Martin, Theresa C. Wossler, WD Hamilton   +19 more
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Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Birdsong Representation with Applications on Wild Bird Species Classification

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang, Shipeng Hu, Hengrui Wang, Jizheng Yi, Guoxiong Zhou, Xiangyu Shen, Weixiong Peng, Zhishu Xiao, Aibin Chen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lichens in the nests of European starling Sturnus vulgaris serve a mate attraction rather than insecticidal function [PDF]

, 2018
The European starling Sturnus vulgaris is a hole-nesting bird in which the male builds a voluminous nest using a wide variety of materials such as twigs, grass, leaves, feathers, and lichens.
Fiorini, Vanina Dafne, García, Renato Andrés, Ibañez, Lucía Mariel, Montalti, Diego   +3 more
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Multiparasitism Resolves the Apparent Paradox of High Male Pheromone Investment Despite Frequent Within‐Host Mating in a Parasitoid

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
It is unknown why males of the parasitoid wasp Nasonia giraulti produce large amounts of a costly sex pheromone although they were long thought to mate with their females already before emergence within the host. Mated females do no longer respond to the pheromone.
Martina Wendler, Verena Engl, Joachim Ruther   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of gregariousness in parasitoid wasps [PDF]

, 1998
Data are assembled on the clutch-size strategies adopted by extant species of parasitoid wasp. These data are used to reconstruct the history of clutch-size evolution in the group using a series of plausible evolutionary assumptions.
Brothers D. J., Deyrup M. A., Farris J. S., Grafen A., Ko, P. J. Mayhew, Quicke D. L. J., Salt G., Whit¢eld J. B., Wilson K.   +9 more
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Predation on Artificial Caterpillars Varies With Vertical Stratification but Not Light Gradients in a Sugar Maple Temperate Forest

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Predation pressure varies vertically, with highest arthropod predation in the understory and highest bird predation in the canopy. Light availability differs across vertical strata, but predation patterns are more strongly influenced by height and forest structure than by light gradients.
Mahsa Hakimara, Emma Despland
wiley   +1 more source

Alternative mating strategies in Eurasian Reed Warblers: extra-pair paternity and egg dumping

The European Zoological Journal
Alternative mating strategies, involving mating outside a social pair bond, have been studied intensively during the last few decades. However, we are still far from understanding what factors affect their frequencies in wild bird populations.
L. Hałupka, H. Sztwiertnia, E. Klimczuk-Bereziuk, M. Borowiec, B. Leisler, B. Czyż   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Filogenia y evolución de la conducta en los ictéridos [PDF]

, 2008
The evolution of selected behavioral characteristics in the family Icteridae is discussed in the light of the new DNA phylogeny. The woven pensile nest is found in only two of the main icterid clades, the caciques plus oropendolas (Cacicus and ...
Fraga, Rosendo Manuel
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Notes on Shifting Distribution Patterns and Survival of Immature \u3ci\u3eDanaus Plexippus\u3c/i\u3e (Lepidoptera: Danaidae) on the Food Plant \u3ci\u3eAsclepias Syriaca\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

, 2017
Abundance and distribution of immature stages of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, on the food plant Asclepias syriaca were examined at a site in southeastern Wisconsin over one growing season.
Borkin, Susan Sullivan
core   +2 more sources

Comparing Methods for Measuring Predation: Toward a Quantitative–Informative Indicator of Natural Pest Control

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.
Predation methods vary widely in their ability to quantify biological control. Estimating predation rates (the number of prey killed per predator per time unit) is crucial. Combining predation rates with predator abundance yields real‐time field estimates of pests consumed.
Yann Tricault, Abel Masson, Sylvain Poggi, Elsa Canard, Manuel Plantegenest   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source