Morphological re-description and molecular identification of Tabanidae (Diptera) in East Africa
ZooKeys, 2018 Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory.
Claire M. Mugasa +5 more
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Czech Journal of Animal Science, 2023 The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) serves as an alternative source of protein in poultry production. However, there is little available information on feeding live black soldier fly larvae (LBSFL) to hens.
Kanda Lokaewmanee +6 more
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Insects Associated With Butternut and Butternut Canker in Minnesota and Wisconsin [PDF]
, 2018 Butternut, Juglans cinerea, is being killed throughout its native range in North America by the fungus Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum. In addition to rain splashed spores, it is thought that the fungus may have spread over long distances to ...
Katovich, Steven A, Ostry, Michael E
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The mitochondrial genome of Aenasius arizonensis (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) with novel gene order
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019 Aenasius arizonensis is the endoparasitoid of mealybug (Phenacoccus solenopsis) and plays an important role in biological control. We sequenced the A. arizonensis mitochondrial genome using next-generation sequencing.
Yue Ma +4 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 The ability of the cockroach to locate an odor source in still air suggests that the temporal dynamic of odor concentration in the slowly expanding stationary plume alone is used to infer odor source distance and location.
Harald Tichy, Maria Hellwig
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Great Diversity of Insect Floral Associates May Partially Explain Ecological Success of Poison Ivy (\u3ci\u3eToxicodendron Radicans\u3c/i\u3e Subsp. \u3ci\u3eNegundo\u3c/i\u3e [Greene] Gillis, Anacardiaceae) [PDF]
, 2018 Little is known about insect floral associates of poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans, Anacardiaceae), despite the species’ ubiquity and importance in nature and society.
Senchina, David S, Summerville, Keith S
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Observations of the Habits of \u3ci\u3eLygaeus Kalmii Angustomarginatus\u3c/i\u3e (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) in Southern Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Lygaeus kalmii Stal (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae) is an insect found throughout the eastern United States and Canada. There is extensive taxonomic literature on this insect (Stil, 1874; Townsend, 1887; Parshey, 1919, 1923; Slater and Knopf, 1969), but very ...
Hunt, Linda-Margaret
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Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling. [PDF]
, 2020 Drought has promoted large-scale, insect-induced tree mortality in recent years, with severe consequences for ecosystem function, atmospheric processes, sustainable resources and global biogeochemical cycles.
Almuth Hammerbacher +15 more
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Diurnal Sampling of the Insect Complex of Alfalfa [PDF]
, 2017 The appearance of the alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), in Michigan in 1966 (Dowdy 1966) necessitated intensive testing of methods for its control.
Ruppel, Robert F
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Malaria Journal, 2017 Background Small islands serve as potential malaria reservoirs through which new infections might come to the mainland and may be important targets in malaria elimination efforts. This study investigated malaria vector species diversity, blood-meal hosts,
Edwin Ogola +7 more
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