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Influence of microphone housing on the directional response of piezoelectric mems microphones inspired by Ormia ochracea [PDF]

, 2017
The influence of custom microphone housings on the acoustic directionality and frequency response of a multiband bio-inspired MEMS microphone is presented.
Akeroyd, Michael A., Bauer, Ralf, Brimijoin, W. Owen, Jackson, Joseph C., Uttamchandani, Deepak, Whitmer, William M., Windmill, James F. C., Zhang, Yansheng   +7 more
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Heating up parasitoid–host interactions: High temperature increased mortality of late‐instar braconid larvae and reduced ladybird recovery rate

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract With ongoing climate change, temperature‐dependent outcomes of host–parasitoid interactions can affect ecosystem functioning and key ecosystem services such as biological control. However, most studies addressing the impacts of temperature on host–parasitoid systems are
Florencia Baudino, Barbora Žabová, Michal Řeřicha, Michal Knapp   +3 more
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Abundance and Localization of Symbiotic Bacterial Communities in the Fly Parasitoid Spalangia cameroni

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022
Many insects carry intracellular bacterial symbionts (bacteria that reside within the cells of the insect). When multiple symbiont species cohabit in a host, they may compete or cooperate for space, nutrients, and transmission, and the nature of such interactions would be reflected in the abundance of each symbiont species.
Rohkin Shalom, Sarit, Weiss, Benjamin, Lalzar, Maya, Kaltenpoth, Martin, Chiel, Elad   +4 more
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Effects of climatic changes on olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) population dynamic with respect to the efficacy of its larval parasitoid in Egyptian olive trees

Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2019
Background The potential effects of two parameters of climatic change conditions (temperature and relative humidity) on the population dynamics of the olive fly across the two ecological areas in Egypt were studied.
Ahmed Mohamed Ezzat Abd El-Salam, Sadek Abdel-Wahed Salem, Ragab Shaker Abdel-Rahman, Hoda Hassan El-Behery, Mona Ahmed Magd Elden   +4 more
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Prior Mating Experience Modulates the Dispersal of Drosophila in Males More Than in Females [PDF]

, 2011
Cues from both an animal’s internal physiological state and its local environment may influence its decision to disperse. However, identifying and quantifying the causative factors underlying the initiation of dispersal is difficult in uncontrolled ...
A Tantawy, AV Alyokhin, B Burnet, B King, BH King, C Johnson, C Ribeiro, C Rowcliffe, DE Bellamy, E Jang, E Jang, E Lewis, EM Callaway, F Pompanon, F Zhang, GB Carvalho, GW Green, H Dingle, H Dingle, HS Pereira, J Brady, J Jaenike, J Kennedy, J Mckenzie, Jasper C. Simon, JR Martin, K Branson, K Iwanaga-Sawabe, K Mikasa, K Mikasa, K Mikasa, KA Osborne, KA Suiter, KG Iliadi, KI Sakai, L Barton Browne, L Luo, L Nunney, L Nunney, LH Andersen, M Feder, M Rowland, MA Vargas, MDR Jones, MDR Jones, Michael H. Dickinson, ML Cornelius, NJ Armes, P Landolt, RE Isaac, SD Stewart, T Magwere, TA Markow, TA Markow, TW Sappington, V Dethier, William B. Dickson, YH Belgacem   +57 more
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Spatial overlap and temporal synchrony between guilds of insect hosts and parasitoids

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study identified a spatial overlap between insect host guild richness and parasitoid richness. Species richness in parasitoid guilds always increased later in the season than richness of their host guilds. These findings suggest that shifts in climate and land‐use may alter the synchrony of insect trophic layers.
Laura J. A. van Dijk, Robert M. Goodsell, Anders F. Andersson, Brian L. Fisher, Elzbieta Iwaszkiewicz‐Eggebrecht, Piotr Lukasik, Andreia Miraldo, Pablo Peña‐Aguilera, Fredrik Ronquist, Tomas Roslin, Ayco J. M. Tack   +10 more
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First record of a parasitoid, Megaselia (M) scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) of fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from India

Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2021
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), has become a major threat in maize cultivation since its invasion to India in 2018.
Sharanabasappa S. Deshmukh, S. Kiran, Atanu Naskar, Palam Pradeep, C. M. Kalleshwaraswamy, K. N. Sharath   +5 more
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Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) larvae in Fennoscandia with description of Cotesia autumnatae Shaw, sp. n. [PDF]

, 2013
The microgastrine subset of hymenopteran parasitoids of the geometrid Epirrita autumnata is investigated in Fennoscandia. Ecology, including population dynamics, of the moth has been intensively studied in northern and mountainous Finland, Norway and ...
Klemola, T, Ruohomäki, , K, Shaw, Mark R, Snäll, N, Sääksjärvi, I E, Veijalainen, A, Wahlberg, N   +6 more
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Genetic engineering for SIT application: a fruit fly‐focused review

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Sterile insect technique (SIT) has become a key component of efficient pest control. Fruit fly pests from the Drosophilidae and Tephritidae families pose a substantial and overwhelmingly increasing threat to the agricultural industry, aggravated by climate change and globalization among other contributors.
Serafima Davydova, Danheng Yu, Angela Meccariello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding biological control function and trophic interaction dynamics of an artificially released predatory bug by DNA metabarcoding

Insect Science, EarlyView.
This study investigated the dietary composition of Sycanus bifidus, a generalist predator of the assassin bug that is artificially released into citrus orchards, and uncovered its trophic structure across various pest species using metabarcoding‐based molecular gut content analysis.
Weidong Huang, Suyi Chen, Zihua Zhao, Chunyan Yang, Anxian Shi, Hu Li, Yuange Duan, Fan Song, Hailin Yang, Wanzhi Cai   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source