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The scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of the Maltese Archipelago [PDF]
, 2014 Past works on scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from the Maltese Archipelago are reviewed. Based on the literature and contemporary collections, a total of 93 species of scale insects belonging to 12 scale insect families are here reported (Aclerdidae
Mifsud, David +3 more
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Paraborg: Paramedic Cyborg Insects for In Situ Emergency Drug‐Delivery (Adv. Sci. 53/2026)
Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 53, 24 September 2026.Paramedic Cyborg Insects The cover illustrates a teamwork‐based drug‐delivery concept using two co‐located teleoperated paramedic cyborg cockroaches, termed Praraborgs. One Praraborg carries a camera to provide live‐stream video and support navigation, while the other carries an embedded injector for drug delivery.
H. Nhan Le +5 more
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Multiphasic on/off pheromone signalling in moths as neural correlates of a search strategy.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Insects and robots searching for odour sources in turbulent plumes face the same problem: the random nature of mixing causes fluctuations and intermittency in perception.
Dominique Martinez +6 more
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 3, July/August/September 2026.Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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The role of endosymbionts in the evolution of haploid-male genetic systems in scale insects (Coccoidea) [PDF]
, 2012 There is an extraordinary diversity in genetic systems across species, but this variation remains poorly understood. In part, this is because the mechanisms responsible for transitions between systems are often unknown.
Pen, Ido +4 more
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Spaces between insects in laboratory swarms move like insects in natural swarms [PDF]
, 2023 Sparse swarms of flying insects show a high degree of spatial cohesion and are a form of collective animal behaviour; albeit one different from flocks and schools as they do not display ordered collective movements and under quiescent (laboratory ...
Reynolds, A. M., Andy M. Reynolds
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Alignment of the Starlings: Learning With Generative AI
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT I will argue that answers to normative questions concerning the place of generative AI in learning rest on answers to ontological questions regarding (1) precisely what is happening when a human ‘interacts’ with generative AI and (2) What is distinctive about organic learning as opposed to currently existing ‘machine learning’ (3) What is the ...
Sean Watson
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Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper presents a close‐hearing analysis of Forest 404, a transmedial audio drama that was released to BBC Sounds in 2019. Despite the drama's eco‐dystopian critique of teleological ‘progress’ narratives (that enable and perpetuate the destruction of the natural world), I argue that the series ultimately propagates a sense of inevitability
Matilda Jones
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Mechanoecology and Chemoecology: Physical and Chemical Interactions between Insects and Plants [PDF]
, 2023 Plants and herbivorous insects, as well as their natural enemies such as predatory and parasitoid insects, are united by intricate relationships. During the long period of co-evolution with insects, plants developed a wide diversity of chemical and ...
Manuela Rebora +5 more
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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