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Multiple origins of sexual dichromatism and aposematism within large carpenter bees

Evolution, 2018
The evolution of reversed sexual dichromatism and aposematic coloration has long been of interest to both theoreticians and empiricists. Yet despite the potential connections between these phenomena, they have seldom been jointly studied. Large carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa) are a promising group for such comparative investigations as they are a ...
Bonnie B. Blaimer, Jonathan R. Mawdsley, Seán G. Brady   +2 more
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Male territorial behaviour of the endemic large carpenter bee, Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) ogasawarensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), on the oceanic Ogasawara Islands

European Journal of Entomology, 2008
The endemic large carpenter bee, Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) ogasawarensis Matsumura (Hymenoptera: Apidae), on the oceanic Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, located in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, approximately 1000 km south of the Japanese mainland, is a ...
Shinji SUGIURA
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Nesting biology of an Oriental carpenter bee, Xylocopa (Biluna) nasalis Westwood, 1838, in Thailand (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Xylocopinae)

Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2014
The biological study of wild non-Apis bees can provide useful information that may help with the pollination of food crops and native plants in areas where the keeping of honey bee colonies is restricted or affected by CCD.
Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp, Natapot Warrit   +1 more
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Large Carpenter Bees, Xylocopa spp. (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopinae)

EDIS, 1969
This document is EENY-100, one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date July 1999.
E. E. Grissell, Malcolm T. Sanford, Thomas R. Fasulo   +2 more
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The Tasty Side of Numbers: How Vowel Type Influences Taste Perceptions for Numerical Brand Names

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Numerical brand names are commonly used in food marketing yet underexplored for their sensory impact. Relying on processing fluency theory, across four studies, including an IAT (n = 149), a quantitative and qualitative lexical analysis of professional wine tasting notes (n = 695), an online study (n = 306), and archival consumer wine ratings (
Nathalie Spielmann, Diego Vega
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Andromonoecy functional through heterostyly and large carpenter bees as principal pollinators in Solanum carolinense L. (Solanaceae)

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2023
Solanum carolinense is a perennial shrubby weed. In this species, andromonoecy is functional through heterostyly represented by the production of long, semi-long, medium, & short-styled flower types and another flower type lacking style & stigma completely. All plants produce long-styled flowers while all individuals do not produce other flower
null Suvarna Raju Palathoti, Jacob Solomon Raju Aluri   +1 more
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A plant–pollinator invasional meltdown: the Japanese pagoda tree Styphnolobium japonicum facilitates the invasion of the giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis

Oikos, EarlyView.
An invasional meltdown can occur when a non‐native species facilitates the spread of another non‐native species in the invaded area, increasing its likelihood of survival or its ecological impact. Plant–pollinator systems pose an exceptional study system to test this concept, which remains poorly known.
Daniel Echeandía, Jordi Margalef‐Marrasé, Marc Riera, Jordina Belmonte, Julia Lanner, Sonja Mader, David Navarro, Ricardo Caliari Oliveira, Rut Puigdemunt, Carlos Hernández‐ Castellano   +9 more
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Tokenism in Context: Unpacking Token Women Directors in the Corporate Boardroom

Human Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tokenism in the corporate boardroom is a contemporary human resource management (HRM) issue for academics, practitioners and policy makers. This essay critiques the existing understanding of the concepts of tokens and tokenism in mainstream management and corporate governance scholarship within the particular context of women on corporate ...
Tanusree Jain, Harry J. Van Buren III, Deirdre Ahern   +2 more
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Mite Faunas and Morphology of Acarinaria on Japanese and Taiwanese Large Carpenter Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan, 2005
We examined structures of acarinaria and phoretic mite faunas of the large carpenter bees Xylocopa amamensis, X. flavifrons, X. albinotum, and X. ogasawarensis from Japan, and compared them with those of X. tranquebarorum and X. ruficeps from Taiwan.
OKABE, Kimiko, MAKINO, Shun'ichi
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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