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An overview of inventories of gall-inducing insects in Brazil: looking for patterns and identifying knowledge gaps

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2019
We compiled published Brazilian gall-inducing insect inventories aiming to understand trends and biases in this field research and to investigate the factors that potentially explain the diversity of gall-inducing insects among different sampling sites ...
WALTER S. DE ARAÚJO   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Women and the double standard of ambition

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Few human qualities are as morally unstable as ambition: We seem unable to decide whether to admire or condemn the desire for self‐advancement. This instability guarantees double standards—and none has been more enduring than that of women's ambition.
Geertje J. Bol
wiley   +1 more source

ON THE HABITS OF CERTAIN GALL INSECTS OF THE GENUS CYNIPS [PDF]

open access: yesThe Canadian Entomologist, 1873
For ten years,past I have been studying the habits of the Cynipidæ to determine, if possible, whether there are one or two broods of these insects each year.Several years ago I discovered the flies of C. q. operator in the act of ovipositing in the young acorns of Quercus ilicifolio, the oak on which the woolly galls of this species are generally found.
openaire   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ocorrência e caracterização de galhas entomógenas em uma área de floresta estacional semidecídua em Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil Occurrence and characterization of entomogenous galls in a seasonal semideciduous forest area in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil

open access: yesActa Botânica Brasílica, 2010
Em uma área de floresta estacional semidecídua do Campus Samambaia da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás foram coletados 34 tipos de galhas entomógenas, durante o período de 2005-2007.
Benedito Baptista dos Santos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

American Insect Galls

open access: yes, 1916
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +2 more sources

Morphology and Chemical Characterization of the Metathoracic Scent Gland in Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

open access: yesActa Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Halyomorpha halys (Stål, 1855) is an invasive pentatomid species causing considerable economic losses in agricultural systems. Despite the ecological importance of the metathoracic scent gland (MTG) in chemical defence and communication, detailed information on its morphology and secretion composition remains limited. In the present study, the
Sila Aydin, Suat Kiyak
wiley   +1 more source

Galling inducing insects associated with a tropical shrub : The role of resource concentration and species interactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Os insetos galhadores são herbívoros sedentários sofsticados que apresentam alto nível de especialização com sua planta hospedeira, mas sua performance pode ser afetada por fatores bióticos e abióticos.
Freitas, Kleiperry F.   +6 more
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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

OPDA has key role in regulating plant susceptibility to the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne hapla in Arabidopsis

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2016
Jasmonic acid (JA) is a plant hormone that plays important roles in regulating plant defenses against necrotrophic pathogens and herbivorous insects, but the role of JA in mediating the plant responses to root-knot nematodes has been unclear.
Cynthia Gleason   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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