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Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Resource exploitation and competition for food are important selective pressures in animal evolution. A number of recent investigations have focused on linkages between diversification, trophic morphology and diet in bats, partly because their roosting ...
Crumpton, Nicholas   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Insect Lipids as Novel Source for Future Applications: Chemical Composition and Industry Applications—A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2025.
Fat body (FB) acts as a major metabolic center important for the regulation of a variety of physiological processes such as embryogenesis, reproduction, flight, overwintering, protection, and communication. Lipid amounts and fatty acid (FA) composition vary with species, stage of life, and their diet.
Shahida Anusha Siddiqui   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethology and Overwintering of \u3ci\u3ePodalonia Luctuosa\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The nesting and overwintering behavior of Podalonia luctuosa (Smith) was studied in New York and Colorado. Females provisioned shallow (ca. 2 cm deep), unicellular nests with a single cutworm (Noctuidae) during April, May, and July.
Kurczewski, Frank E, O\u27Brien, Mark F
core   +2 more sources

Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Cytisus scoparius*

open access: yesJournal of Ecology, Volume 113, Issue 7, Page 1877-1933, July 2025.
Broom is an attractive and common native plant across Britain, Ireland and most of Europe, and yet it is considered a harmful and invasive weed around the rest of the world. This is aided by broom thriving on poor dry soils, helped by using green stems for photosynthesis and having root nodules to fix nitrogen.
Peter A. Thomas   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An annotated catalogue of the Lepidoptera collection of Guido Lanfranco at the National Museum of Natural History in Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
An annotated list of the lepidoptera in the Lanfranco collection donated to the National Museum of Natural History of Mdina in Malta is included.
Borg, John J., Sammut, Paul
core  

First Results About Pollination of Silene migjornensis, an Endemic Plant Species of the Southern Dunes of Mallorca

open access: yesJournal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 6, Page 882-887, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Silene migjornensis is a plant species restricted to a unique location in the south of Mallorca. Its floral syndrome suggests nocturnal pollination by lepidopterans, but pollinators of this species remain unknown. Several surveys were conducted along the flowering period, and potential pollinators were captured for pollen load analyses ...
Fernando D. Cortés‐Giménez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Parental Selection for Productivity Improvement in Indian Tropical Tasar Silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Global demand for Vanya silks in general and tasar silk in particular, call-for sustainable utilization of the country’s seri-biodiversity potential.
Dr. Manohar Reddy Rangareddygari   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Examining park users' support for emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) control in urban parks

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 5, May 2025.
In 2023, we surveyed 174 urban park users in northeastern Georgia, United States, to identify determinants of their support for emerald ash borer (EAB) control using parasitoid wasps (biological control) and systemic insecticides (chemical control).
Mitchell A. Green   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opinion and report of the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) relating to an analysis of the health risks associated with exposure to caterpillars with stinging hairs and the development of management recommendations

open access: yesFood Risk Assess Europe, Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract Several species of Lepidoptera with caterpillars bearing urticating hairs are increasing their range in metropolitan France from year to year, such as the pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis et Schiffermüller 1775) whose presence was historically limited to the south of France, and which is gradually being observed in the north ...
Nicolas Desneux   +105 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribución al conocimiento de los Macroheterocera del Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España) (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

open access: yesSHILAP, 2018
Las familias Cossidae, Limacodidae, Drepanidae, Lasiocampidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Nolidae, Erebidae y Euteliidae están representadas por 70 especies en el Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, sureste de España).
M. Garre   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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