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Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals [PDF]
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
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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
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Ethology and Overwintering of \u3ci\u3ePodalonia Luctuosa\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
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
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Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Cytisus scoparius*
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
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An annotated catalogue of the Lepidoptera collection of Guido Lanfranco at the National Museum of Natural History in Malta [PDF]
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
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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
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Parental Selection for Productivity Improvement in Indian Tropical Tasar Silkworm, Antheraea mylitta Drury (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) [PDF]
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
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Examining park users' support for emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) control in urban parks
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
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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
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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
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