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Mitigating Arthropod Mortality During Roadside Mowing: The Potential of the EcoCut Insect Flushing Bar

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due to their size and corridor function, roadside verges are of concern for the conservation and protection of insects and other arthropods. Any opportunity to manage them in an insect‐friendly way, for example, insect‐friendly mowing technology, should be seen as an important contribution. Here we investigated the effectiveness of the EcoCut (
Lea von Berg, Michael Axt, Christian Bender, Dieter Reber, Manuela Sann, Oliver Betz   +5 more
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Unveiling Wasps as Potential Pollinators: Floral Traits and Wasp Sociality Intensify Network Centrality in a Highly Diverse Tropical Ecosystem

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wasps, members of over 90 hymenopteran families, exhibit diverse behaviours, including pollination, predation and parasitism. While wasps are known pollinators in specialised systems, such as the intricate mutualism of fig trees and the deceptive pollination of certain orchids, they have historically been considered ineffective pollinators ...
Beatriz Lopes Monteiro, Julio Cesar Lopes Santiago, Leonor Patricia Cerdeira Morellato, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Irene Gélvez‐Zúñiga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Allometry of Workers of the Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta [PDF]

, 2003
The relationship between worker body size and the shape of their body parts was explored in the polymorphic ant, Solenopsis invicta. The data consisted of 20 measurements of body parts as well as sums of some of these measurements.
Mikheyev, Alexander S., Storz, Shonna R., Tschinkel, Walter R.   +2 more
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Predation by Amphibians and Small Mammals on the Spruce Budworm (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) [PDF]

, 2017
Stomach-content analyses of pitfall-trapped amphibians and small mammals showed that the eastern American toad, Bujo americanus americanus, and the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, preyed on late instars and moths of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura ...
Crawford, Hewlette S, Jr., Hunter, Malcolm L, Jr., Jennings, Daniel T   +2 more
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Beetle Pollination in the Holoparasitic Lophophytum pyramidale (Balanophoraceae): A New Case of Brood‐Pollination Mutualism?

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beetle pollination is considered an ancestral trait in angiosperms, retained in a few specialised families engaging in longstanding interactions with ancient groups of beetles. While beetles represent some of the earliest angiosperm pollinators, there is also increasing evidence that some beetle‐pollinated plants represent a derived condition.
Alexandre da Silva Medeiros, Priscila Andre Sanz‐Veiga, João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga, Izar Aximoff, André Silva Roza, Isabel DiStefano, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Felipe W. Amorim   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Distribution Records of Ground Beetles From the North Central United States (Coleoptera: Carabidae) [PDF]

, 2018
We report 39 ground beetles new to five states in the upper midwestern United States. These species records include 19 new to Illinois (all but one from Lake County), 11 from Iowa, three from South Dakota, eight from Wisconsin, and two from Michigan ...
Chin-Ting Lee, Jana, Larsen, Kirk J, Purrington, Foster Forbes, Young, Daniel K   +3 more
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Is Nocturnal Pollination Important for Crop Production? Experimental Evidence From Small Fruit Crops

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insect‐mediated pollination is essential for crop production but is mainly studied considering diurnal pollinators only. Here, we use pollinator exclusion techniques to prevent either diurnal or nocturnal insect visits in small fruit crops: raspberry (Rubus idaeus), over 1 year, and red currant (Ribes rubrum) and black currant (Ribes nigrum ...
Elsa Blareau, Fabrice Requier
wiley   +1 more source

The survivorship and water loss of Liometopum luctuosum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Liometopum occidentale (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) exposed to different temperatures and relative humidity. [PDF]

, 2014
Two species of velvety tree ants, Liometopum luctuosum Wheeler, and Liometopum occidentale Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), are commonly found in the western Unites States from Washington to southern California. L.
Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle, Rust, Michael K   +1 more
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Fatty acids and glycerides are object recognition and carrying cues for foraging Camponotus modoc carpenter ants

Physiological Entomology, EarlyView.
Colour‐coded perlites were treated with specific fatty acids or mono‐, di‐ or triglycerides as perlite pickup cues for laboratory and field colonies of western carpenter ants. In laboratory and field experiments, ant colonies were offered multiple choices of these colour‐coded lipid‐treated perlites for pickup and transport to the nest.
Asim Renyard, Ranjot Singh, Santosh Kumar Alamsetti, Regine Gries, Claire Gooding, Gerhard Gries   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primer Frenguelliidae (Insecta: Odonata) del Eoceno de Río Pichileufú, Patagonia, Argentina [PDF]

, 2017
Se describe un nuevo género, Treintamilun gen. nov., basado en Treintamilun vuelvenlucha sp. nov. de la localidad de Río Pichileufú (Luteciano), Provincia de Río Negro, Patagonia, Argentina. El nuevo género se asigna a Frenguelliidae.
Petrulevicius, Julian Fernando
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