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Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
Nature Communications, 2020 Urbanisation is an important global driver of biodiversity change, negatively impacting some species groups whilst providing opportunities for others. Yet its impact on ecosystem services is poorly investigated.
P. Theodorou +11 more
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Climate change effect on the widely distributed Palearctic plant bug species (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) [PDF]
PeerJInsects are poikilothermic organisms and temperature increase usually accelerates their development rates, population and distribution area growth. Therefore, it is assumed that global warming can be beneficial for the pests and other widespread species ...
Anna A. Namyatova +3 more
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Resilient conductive membrane synthesized by in-situ polymerisation for wearable non-invasive electronics on moving appendages of cyborg insect [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 By leveraging their high mobility and small size, insects have been combined with microcontrollers to build up cyborg insects for various practical applications. Unfortunately, all current cyborg insects rely on implanted electrodes to control their movement, which causes irreversible damage to their organs and muscles.
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Edible Insects and Sustainable Development Goals
Insects, 2021 Simple Summary The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), seventeen urgent topics of action by all country, aim to reach ambitious and hopefully targets, such as peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future ...
R. Moruzzo, S. Mancini, A. Guidi
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Germination of Microsporidian Spores: The Known and Unknown
Journal of Fungi, 2023 Microsporidia are a large group of mysterious obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites. The microsporidian spore can survive in the absence of nutrients for years under harsh conditions and germinate within seconds under the stimulation of ...
Qingyuan Huang +5 more
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Lipids from Insects in Cosmetics and for Personal Care Products
Insects, 2021 Simple Summary The use of insects as a new source of lipids is a topic of great interest from both environmental and economic points of view. In addition to use in feed and energy applications, lipids could be used for the formulation of personal care ...
Antonio Franco +5 more
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Journal of Plant Interactions, 2017 Horned gall is named after its shape of irregular diamond, and is induced by the fluid-feeding aphid Schlechtendalia chinensis (Bell) attacks on the leaflets that are located in the branchlets of Rhus chinensis Mill., which is enriched in gallotannin and
Haiying Wang +10 more
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arXiv, 2023 Approximately half of the existing winged-insect species are of very small size (wing length about 0.3-4 mm); they are referred to as miniature insects. Yet until recently, much of what we know about the mechanics of insect flight was derived from studies on relatively large insects, such as hoverflies, honey bees and hawkmoths.
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Motion Informed Object Detection of Small Insects in Time-lapse Camera Recordings [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Insects as pollinators play a crucial role in ecosystem management and world food production. However, insect populations are declining, calling for efficient methods of insect monitoring. Existing methods analyze video or time-lapse images of insects in nature, but the analysis is challenging since insects are small objects in complex and dynamic ...
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Individual versus collective cognition in social insects [PDF]
The Journal of Experimental Biology, The Company of Biologists
2017, 220, pp.73 - 82, 2017 The concerted responses of eusocial insects to environmental stimuli are often referred to as collective cognition on the level of the colony.To achieve collective cognitiona group can draw on two different sources: individual cognitionand the connectivity between individuals.Computation in neural-networks, for example,is attributedmore tosophisticated
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