CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]
, 2020 Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha +4 more
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Grasshoppers Feeding on Red Pine Trees in Michigan (Orthoptera: Acrididae) [PDF]
, 2017 Very few North American grasshoppers are true feeders on conifers. The several species of the punctulatus species-group of the genus Melanoplus, as summarized and revised by Rehn (1946), have been reported as occurring on pine, juniper, and cedar, but ...
McPherson, J. E, Wilson, Louis F
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Survival and Food Detection by First-Instar \u3ci\u3eMelanoplus Femurrubrum\u3c/i\u3e (Orthoptera: Acrididae) [PDF]
, 2017 Newly hatched Melanoplus femurrubrum (DeGeer) were evaluated for survival without food under various moisture, temperature, and light conditions. Although nymphs survived up to 113 h without food, they required food 48-W h after hatching to ensure ...
Bland, R. G
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The Feasibility of Use of Caecal and Diverticular Coloration in Field Determination of Grasshopper Diet [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Many studies have been undertaken in the past on the food selection, food preferences, and economic damage of various grasshoppers and their allies.
Tyrkus, Michael
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2018 Thirty bacterial strains were successfully isolated from dead/diseased nymphs of the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria Forskal (Orthoptera: Acrididae) occurred in rearing cages at Locust and Grasshoppers Research Department, Plant Protection Research ...
Mohamed Reda +4 more
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Fauna, structure of communities and acoustic signals of grasshoppers (Orthoptera, Acridoidea) in environs of the Dzhanybek Research Station [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2009 36 grasshopper species were showed for environs of the Dzhanybek Research Station. Features of their phenology and biotopical preference were investigated. Structure of grasshopper communities in common types of biotopes is discussed.
V.Yu. Savitsky
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Biology and Ecology of Melanoplus Borealis (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in Fairbanks, Alaska with Special Reference to Feeding Habits [PDF]
, 2017 Overwintered Melanoplus borealis (subspecies, borealis Fieber) eggs hatched within 10-15 days in mid-June. The nymphs molted 5 times and became adults in about 45 days in nature.
Kaufmann, Tohko
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Evolution, Diversification, and Biogeography of Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae)
Insect Systematics and Diversity, 2018 The grasshopper family Acrididae is one of the most diverse lineages within Orthoptera, including more than 6,700 valid species distributed worldwide.
Hojun Song +3 more
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Death by a Thousand Ants: Predation on Grasshoppers by Invasive Ants in a Grassland. [PDF]
Ecol EvolInvasive ants are known to disrupt litter‐dwelling arthropod communities, but their impacts on large, mobile aboveground insects are less clear. We document predation by the invasive tawny crazy ant (Nylanderia fulva) on adult grasshoppers in a coastal tallgrass prairie, where nearly half of tethered individuals were killed within 24 h, and stable ...
Reihart RW, Prather CM.
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Relationships between the Mandibles, Feeding Behavior, and Damage Inflicted on Plants by the Feeding of Certain Acridids (Orthoptera) [PDF]
, 2017 [excerpt] In 1960 the author described three fundamental patterns of feed- ing in Orthoptera and their allies and emphasized the close correlation that exists between the insects\u27 mouthpart structure, food, and feeding pattern. An article by Anderson (
Gangwere, S. K.
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