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Environmental drivers influencing the ambrosia beetle community: The primary role of geographic and climatic drivers in chestnut‐growing areas

open access: yesAgricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Ethanol‐baited traps were placed in cultivated chestnut orchards (a) and mixed environments with assorted tree composition (b), over a 2‐year monitoring period in two valleys (NW Italy). A total of 118,286 ambrosia beetles was collected, representing six species.
Eleonora Vittoria Fontana   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Making the most of your host: the Metrosideros-feeding psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of the Hawaiian Islands

open access: yesZooKeys, 2017
The Hawaiian psyllids (Psylloidea, Triozidae) feeding on Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) constitute a remarkable radiation of more than 35 species. This monophyletic group has diversified on a single, highly polymorphic host plant species, Metrosideros ...
Diana M. Percy
doaj   +3 more sources

Neotropical Insect Galls

open access: yes, 2014
Introduction.- 1. Neotropical Insect galls: status of knowledge and perspectives G. Wilson Fernandes et al.- 2. Developmental Anatomy of Galls in the Neotropics: Arthropods Stimuli vs. Host Plant Constraints Rosy Mary dos Santos Isaias et al.- 3. Functional Gradients in Insect Gall Tissues: Studies on Neotropical Host Plants Denis Coelho de Oliveira et
openaire   +2 more sources

Where the Magician Lives: An Ontological Problem in the Anthropology of Magic

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study is to outline a theoretical framework in which the anthropologist can introduce a naturalistic approach, which will not be conflicted with scientific discourses, into his ethnographic work. First of all, I argue that the principles of magic can be understood as a part of social cognitive causal chains, based on
Keishi Okamoto
wiley   +1 more source

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

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

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

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

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

Coactivating influences between neighbouring legs in walking insects [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
Cruse H. Coactivating influences between neighbouring legs in walking insects. The Journal of Experimental Biology.
Cruse, Holk
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