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Galls Can Protect Galling Weevils from Fire in a Fire‐Adapted Ecosystem

open access: yes
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Jean Carlos Santos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wing rotation and the aerodynamic basis of insect flight.

Science, 1999
The enhanced aerodynamic performance of insects results from an interaction of three distinct yet interactive mechanisms: delayed stall, rotational circulation, and wake capture.
M. Dickinson, F. Lehmann, S. Sane
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world

Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2020
Surviving changing climate conditions is particularly difficult for organisms such as insects that depend on environmental temperature to regulate their physiological functions.
D. González‐Tokman   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Insect Societies

, 1974
Conducts a definitive study of the social structure and symbiotic relationships of termites, social wasps, bees, and ants.
E. Wilson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Plant immunity to insect herbivores.

Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2008
Herbivorous insects use diverse feeding strategies to obtain nutrients from their host plants. Rather than acting as passive victims in these interactions, plants respond to herbivory with the production of toxins and defensive proteins that target ...
G. Howe, G. Jander
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Insect Extinctions and Insect Survival

Conservation Biology, 2006
Dunn (2005) puts forward an interesting challenge: “If we are serious about insect conservation, we need to spend more time and money documenting extinctions.” Arguably, we should spend more resources ensuring that the ship stays afloat and is on course rather than perfecting technology to record its sinking.
openaire   +3 more sources

A journey into the world of insect lipid metabolism.

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, 2020
Lipid metabolism is fundamental to life. In insects, it is critical, during reproduction, flight, starvation, and diapause. The coordination center for insect lipid metabolism is the fat body, which is analogous to the vertebrate adipose tissue and liver.
U. Toprak   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biological control of insect pests by insect parasitoids and predators: the BIOCAT database.

Biocontrol News and Information, 1992
The structure of the BIOCAT database, which contains records of the introductions of insect natural enemies for the control of insect pests worldwide, and is now available online, is explained.
D. Greathead, A. Greathead
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vitellogenesis in Insects

1985
Fertilized eggs are the crossroads of development. They represent both the origin and the biological goal of each individual organism. Eggs provide in two ways for the embryo they enclose: They contain developmental instructions given by the mother to direct the initial phases of embryogenesis (see Chapters 11–13), and they are usually provisioned with
POSTLETHWAIT JH, GIORGI, FRANCO
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RESPIRATION OF INSECTS

Science, 1927
These experiments would seem to prove that no special spiracles are used for inhaling and others used for exhaling, but rather that all are alike in this respect, as the abdomen expands air is taken in and as the body contracts the gases are exhaled.
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