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From Firebugs to Fire Fighters?

1984
Marin County sheriff’s detectives arrested a volunteer fire fighter at the scene of a grass fire he is suspected of starting. Marinwood Fire Department volunteer, Randy Williams, 31, was taken into custody when he responded in fire fighting gear to help fight the blaze at an area three blocks from his home. Williams, suspected of arson in several other
Wayne S. Wooden, Martha Lou Berkey
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Prolonged tandem formation in firebugs ( Pyrrhocoris apterus ) serves mate-guarding

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2002
When copulating, firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) form tandems for prolonged periods. Half of the copulations of marked individuals in the field lasted longer than 12 h, and some lasted up to 7 days. We found that: (1) females mate usually with several males prior to an oviposition bout, and (2) they store sperm from each mating for a large proportion of
Gerhard Schöfl, Michael Taborsky
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A ctinobacteria as essential symbionts in firebugs and cotton stainers ( H emiptera, P yrrhocoridae)

Environmental Microbiology, 2012
Summary A ctinobacteria engage in defensive symbioses with several insect taxa, but reports of nutritional contributions to their hosts have been exceptionally rare. Cotton stainers ( D ysdercus fasciatus
Salem, H., Kreutzer, E., Sudakaran, S., Kaltenpoth, M.   +3 more
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Firebugs fight infection with egg yolk protein

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019
![Figure][1] A firebug ( Pyrrhocoris apterus ). Photo credit: Jan Sula. Fighting off an infection is never easy, but insects are prepared. By releasing antimicrobial peptides (mini-proteins) from the fat body – the insect equivalent of the liver – and mobilising specialised cells ...
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Firebugs Pyrrhocoris apterus (L.) (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae) breeding in Surrey

1998
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Ashwell, Diana, Denton, Jonty
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Polar cytoplasmic evaginations in dividing spermatocytes of the firebug,Pyrrhocoris apterus (Pyrrhocoridae, Hemiptera)

Protoplasma, 1996
The present fine structure and anti-tubulin immunofluorescence study deals with evaginations from the cell surface in metaphase I spermatocytes of the firebugPyrrhocoris apterus (Pyrrhocoridae, Hemiptera). The surface of spermatogonia and prophase spermatocytes was smooth throughout.
K. W. Wolf, H. C. Joshi
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Nucleolar activity of haemocytes in the adult firebug as an alternative animal model

Comparative Clinical Pathology, 2012
Firebug haemocytes are a newly developed alternative animal model, but data on their physiology are deficient. We examined the nucleolar activity, which reflects the intensity of cellular proteosynthesis, using toluidine blue and AgNOR stain technology.
Josef Berger, Jana Horackova
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Playing with Fire: Baby Firebugs in Gilded Age America

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
Abstract: "Playing with Fire" examines child arsonists in the turn-of-the-century United States. Race, class, and gender often conspired to determine the "ages" of "baby firebugs" and hence their fates. At the same time, however, the disposition of various cases and children's own rationales illustrated the difficulties of distinguishing accidents ...
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Firebug Optimized Modified Bee Colony Algorithm for Trusted WSN Routing

IETE Journal of Research, 2023
M. Alamelumangai, S. Suresh
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firebug, n.

2023
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