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Experience-based mediation of feeding and oviposition behaviors in the cotton bollworm: Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Experience is well known to affect sensory-guided behaviors in many herbivorous insects. Here, we investigated the effects of natural feeding experiences of Helicoverpa armigera larvae on subsequent preferences of larval approaching and feeding, as well ...
Pu Hu +7 more
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Study on the Behaviors of Rapana venosa Feeding on Different Bivalves
Progress in Fishery Sciences, 2023 Rapana venosa is primarily distributed in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea of China, Japan, Korea, and Russia. In the natural sea area, the adult R. Venosa mostly inhabits the sand-mud bottom or the rocky bottom of the low intertidal zone up to 20 meters ...
Xizhen XU +7 more
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Digestive Characteristics of Hyphantria cunea Larvae on Different Host Plants
Insects, 2023 Digestive physiology mediates the adaptation of phytophagous insects to host plants. In this study, the digestive characteristics of Hyphantria cunea larvae feeding preferences on different host plants were investigated.
Aoying Zhang +5 more
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Quantity of glucosinolates in 10 cabbage genotypes and their impact on the feeding of Mamestra brassicae caterpillars [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2014 In 2011, we studied the glucosinolate content in 5 cultivars and 5 cabbage hybrids grown outdoors in order to study their influence on the feeding of cabbage moth caterpillars (Mamestra brassicae).
Bohinc Tanja, Devetak M., Trdan S.
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Insects, 2022 Spider mites belonging to the genus Tetranychus infest many important agricultural crops in both fields and greenhouses worldwide and are diversified in their host plant range.
Qi-Qi Hu +5 more
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Grasses and the resource availability hypothesis: the importance of silica-based defences [PDF]
, 2007 The resource availability hypothesis (RAH) predicts that allocation of resources to anti-herbivore defences differs between species according to their growth rate.
Ennos, Roland A. +2 more
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Tube Feeding Preferences Among Nursing Home Residents [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1997 To determine the preferences of nursing home residents regarding the use of tube feedings and to characterize the clinical, functional, and psychosocial factors that are associated with preferences.In-person survey.Forty-nine randomly selected nursing homes.Three hundred seventy-nine randomly selected, decisionally capable, nursing home residents ...
Linda A. O'Brien +7 more
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Insects, 2023 Riptortus pedestris (Fabricius) and Halyomorpha halys (Stål) are the major pests that feed on soybean pods, seeds, and fruits. Higher populations and damage occur during the soybean maturity stages (podding to harvest). To compare the feeding behavior of
Seong-Bin Park +5 more
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Evaluation of Adult Cottonwood Leaf Beetle, \u3ci\u3eChrysomela Scripta\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Feeding Preference for Hybrid Poplars [PDF]
, 2017 Foliage from the Leuce section of Populus was rejected for feeding by Chrysomela scripta adults in a choice test involving 12 hybrid poplar clones.
Benjamin, D. M +3 more
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Agronomy, 2023 Soil food webs are extremely complex as they contain diverse organisms. Feeding preference, also known as prey selection, is an important determinant of soil community compositions.
Yiqun Zhou +3 more
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