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Native insect species should be selected for classroom rearings
Rearing insects in the school classroom can build positive attitudes towards insects among schoolchildren, which is becoming increasingly important as insect populations decline. Identified frequent use of non‐native insect species, raising environmental and ethical concerns after classroom rearing ends.
Tereza Matulková, Tomáš Ditrich
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The newly systematic rearrangement of Gyriosomus recognizes 9 clades, validates 21 taxonomical species and suggests 12 synonyms and 12 species candidates. Three taxonomical species were not evaluated. Polymorphisms, convergences and crypsis have been detected, and therefore morphology‐based taxonomy should be approached with caution. Ecological drivers
Simón Anguita‐Salinas +7 more
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Alphitobius diaperinus is regarded as a highly resilient pest in poultry production systems that use litter-based rearing . It is also known as a potential reservoir of several avian pathogens.
Khaled KABOUDI +3 more
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First comprehensive phylogenomic study of subtribe Eurynotina using a combined dataset of 499 nuclear loci, 12 mitochondrial loci and 91 morphological characters covering all genera and species groups is presented. Eurynotina is monophyletic and genera within are redefined based on reassessment of old characters, generation of new characters, and ...
Ryan Lumen +3 more
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Incidence of bacterial pathogens in flying insects collected near poultry farms
SUMMARY: Filth flies, especially house flies, can harbor and disseminate human pathogens to food and food contact surfaces. To determine the potential of flying insects to carry Salmonella and Campylobacter from poultry grow out houses, a total of 2,164 ...
A. Buyukyavuz +2 more
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Abstract In the coming decades, there is expected to be a sharply increased demand for dietary proteins for humans and animals. As a result, there is an increasing focus on reared insects as a new source of protein. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV), the use of food chain residual flows such as former foodstuffs as
L.F.F. Kox, D.T.H.M. Sijm
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Darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Jordan
Nabozhenko, M.V., Tichý, V. (2019): Darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Jordan.
Nabozhenko, M.V., Tichý, V.
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We describe a new and unusual myrmecophilous behaviour displayed by the darkling beetle, Scaurus uncinus (Forster, 1771) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), accessing nests of the harvester ant, Messor barbarus (Linnaeus, 1767) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in ...
Juan A. DELGADO, Ricardo L. PALMA
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A new species of the genus Aryenis Bates, 1868 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae, Pimeliinae) from the Peruvian coastal desert [PDF]
A new species of tenebrionid beetle is described based on specimens collected in Peruvian coastal desert localities of Ancash, La Libertad, and Piura: Aryenis yaserin sp. nov.
Alfredo Edgardo Giraldo-Mendoza
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ABSTRACT Males of many species compete with one another, allowing access to mating opportunities. During combat, contestants are constantly making decisions, e.g. to continue competing or retreat, based on the relative difference in resource holding potential (RHP) or some internal threshold.
Luna Grey +3 more
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