Results 231 to 240 of about 40,465 (324)

How do parasites and predators choose their victim? A trade‐off between quality and vulnerability across antagonistic interactions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From blood‐sucking lice and food‐stealing gulls to pandemic‐inducing viruses and egg‐eating snakes: parasites and predators are ubiquitous in shaping ecology and evolution. Fundamental to these interactions is the way in which parasites and predators choose their victim. Here, I argue that a trade‐off between host quality and vulnerability can
Mairenn C. Attwood
wiley   +1 more source

Repellents against Aedes aegypti bites: synthetic and natural origins. [PDF]

Front Insect Sci
Noguera-Gahona M, Peña-Moreno C, Quiñones-Sobarzo N, Weinstein-Oppenheimer C, Guerra-Zúñiga M, Collao-Ferrada X.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pancha Shirishanama Agad - An Ethno-Ayurvedic Formulation for Insect Bite

Heena Tabassum, Ramesh Chandra Tiwari, Manisha Dikshit, Bhawana Mittal, Ved Bhushan Sharma   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Ecosystem services provided by spiders

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Spiders, ubiquitous and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems, often are the subjects of an unjust negative perception. However, these remarkable creatures stand as unsung heroes within our ecosystems, contributing a multitude of ecosystem services critical to human well‐being.
Pedro Cardoso, Stano Pekár, Klaus Birkhofer, Angela Chuang, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Eileen A. Hebets, Yann Henaut, Thomas Hesselberg, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ondřej Michálek, Radek Michalko, Catherine Scott, Jonas Wolff, Stefano Mammola   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Unusual Case of Giant Polymicrobial Shoulder Abscess Developing Two Decades After an Insect Bite: The Role of Chronic Intermittent Swelling as a Predisposing Factor. [PDF]

Cureus
Celayir A, Afacan MY, Sevgil B, Ozturk B, Yildirim O, Botanlioglu H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pott′s puffy tumor following an insect bite

, 2007
V Raja, Christopher M. Low, Amit Sastry, Brendan Moriarty   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

‘I like to dance with the flowers!’: Exploring the possibilities for biodiverse futures in an urban forest school

Children &Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the ways in which ‘forest school’, an educational approach where children engage in creative and play based activities in a ‘natural’ environment, can contribute towards Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15) by promoting sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and by helping address biodiversity loss. Drawing on data
Hannah Hogarth
wiley   +1 more source

Setting goals for pollinator gardens

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, declines in animal pollinators have stimulated tremendous interest in pollinator‐friendly gardening. There is a widespread notion that pollinator gardens are beneficial, but the specific capacity of pollinator gardens to improve biodiversity conservation and societal well‐being remains unclear.
Nicholas N. Dorian, Atticus W. Murphy, Amy M. Iler, Paul J. CaraDonna   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human IgG responses to Anopheles gambiae immunogenic salivary proteins in urban and rural populations of Burkina Faso: biomarkers of exposure to malaria vector bites. [PDF]

Parasit Vectors
Kaboré M, Hien YE, Koussé DJN, Thiombiano F, Ouédraogo M, Nikiema AR, Ibrango E, Ouédraogo N, Cherif MK, Ilboudo S, Rouamba T, Sanou GS.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bullous Insect Bite Reaction with Flame Figures

Pankaj Das, Vikram Singh, Biju Vasudevan, K. Lekshmi Priya, Anand Mannu, Abhinav Kumar Verma   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source