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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Starvation duration alters predatory behaviour of Eriopis connexa, affecting aphid consumption and survival dynamics. Increased starvation enhances attack rate, accelerating prey depletion without substantially affecting handling time. Functional response remains type II, with stronger predation under prolonged food deprivation.
Lucas Ramos Vieira +2 more
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W imię miłości. Jeffrey Dahmer i zakochani kanibale
Er(r)go, 2003 Katarzyna Ancuta The Things We Do For Love. Jeffrey Dahmer and Cannibal Love Culture The article explores the romantic face of cannibalism. where the act of devouring human flesh is deconstructed as the ultimate expression of love.
Katarzyna Ancuta
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Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 2018 We observed cannibalism by juvenile and adult largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) on their young-of-year (YOY) over nearly three decades (1984–2012) in a small temperate lake located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA.
Colin J. Dassow +4 more
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Pest‐preservation paradox among insects
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.The pest‐preservation paradox is a non‐binary perspective that insects range from those that are harmful and requiring management on the one side, to those requiring conservation intervention on the opposite end of the spectrum. Importantly, the vast majority of insects occur somewhere in the center of the two extremes, and their position along the ...
Michael J. Samways +3 more
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Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.This study provides the first laboratory assessment of the physiological host range of Istocheta aldrichi, a candidate biological control agent for Popillia japonica in Europe. In sequential no‐choice tests with 14 European scarab beetles, the parasitoid oviposited on six species but successfully developed only in the two Rutelinae Anomala vitis and ...
Riccardo Valenti +4 more
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TranslationHuman cannibalism is an extremely rare and violent act that is poorly understood in the modern era, and pediatric cannibalism is even less understood. This is due to methodological hurdles when investigating the topic, including a lack of data from the ...
Sarah Porter +6 more
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Cannibalism and Performance Evaluation of Hybrids between Clarias batrachus and Clarias gariepinus
Croatian Journal of Fisheries, 2016 Cannibalism is an important characteristic of African catfish that significantly reduces the number of stocked fish at harvest. This study evaluates the effect of reciprocal hybridization of Clarias batrachus and Clarias gariepinus on cannibalism and ...
Olufeagba Samuel Olabode +1 more
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The effect of caste, mass and colony identity on rescue priorities in the red imported fire ant
Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.Fire ants will rescue brood when the brood becomes trapped underground. We find that rescuers may use odor cues to locate trapped rescue targets. We demonstrate that a single reproductive larva is preferentially rescued over a single worker larva, but that caches of multiple worker larvae receive equal treatment as a single reproductive larva.
Paige B. Caine +3 more
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Sexual cannibalism and mate choice
, 2006 Sexual cannibalism, where a female kills and consumes a courting male, represents an extreme form of sexual conflict and has been proposed as a mechanism of mate choice.
MacNeil, C. +2 more
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards.
Michael O'Connor
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