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Sit‐and‐Wait for the Agoutis: Dung Beetle Phoresy on Dasyprocta azarae in a Tropical Forest
Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.ABSTRACT We document the first case of phoresy by dung beetles with a rodent, involving Canthon (Goniocanthon) smaragdulus subviridis and agoutis (Dasyprocta azarae). Camera traps set in a tropical forest recorded 21 phoretic events, with agoutis carrying 1–6 beetles each. This behavior likely enhances how beetles locate fresh dung.
Fernanda C. Souza +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 10, October 2026.This study systematically elucidates the complex tritrophic networks among the keystone shrub Lycium ruthenicum, three gall‐inducing pests, and 13 associated parasitoid species in the arid desert ecosystems of northern Xinjiang, China, reporting the globally novel stem gall‐inducing behavior of Scrobipalpa erichiodes.
Gaopeng Yu +3 more
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Microfluidic Pump Driven by Anisotropic Phoresis [PDF]
Physical Review Applied, 2019 Fluid flow along microchannels can be induced by keeping opposite walls at different temperatures, and placing elongated tilted pillars inside the channel. The driving force for this fluid motion arises from the anisotropic thermophoretic effect of the elongated pillars that generates a force parallel to the walls, and perpendicular to the temperature ...
Tan, Zihan +2 more
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Phoresy in the field: natural occurrence of Trichogramma egg parasitoids on butterflies and moths
, 2012 Phoretic insects utilize other animals to disperse to new environments. We recently discovered how egg parasitoids use an exciting phoretic strategy to reach egg-laying sites of their butterfly hosts.
Huigens, M.E., Fatouros, N.E.
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 10, October 2026.Mitochondrial genomes of Poecilochirus mites reveal a paraphyletic genus and uncover deep cryptic speciation within the P. carabi complex. Two divergent lineages (BJ1 and BJ2) show a cox1 genetic distance of 0.409 and an Eocene divergence time of ~52.4 million years ago, predating the split between two morphologically recognized species.
Lang Liang +4 more
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Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2017 New data on pseudoscorpions associated with animals (birds, mammals, ants and true flies) and human habitats (synanthropic species) are presented. The collecting was carried out at 35 localities in Slovakia and the Czech Republic in different periods ...
Christophoryová, Jana +2 more
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Clustering of particles in turbulence due to phoresis [PDF]
Physical Review E, 2016 We demonstrate that diffusiophoretic, thermophoretic, and chemotactic phenomena in turbulence lead to clustering of particles on multifractal sets that can be described using one single framework, valid when the particle size is much smaller than the smallest length scale of turbulence l_{0}.
Schmidt Lukas +4 more
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PyStokes: phoresis and Stokesian hydrodynamics in Python [PDF]
Journal of Open Source Software, 2020 We present a modular Python library for computing many-body hydrodynamic and phoretic interactions between spherical active particles in suspension, when these are given by solutions of the Stokes and Laplace equations. Underpinning the library is a grid-free methodology that combines dimensionality reduction, spectral expansion, and Ritz-Galerkin ...
Rajesh Singh, Ronojoy Adhikari
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Austral Entomology, Volume 65, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT Despite the importance of understanding mite–bee interactions, standardized and noninvasive methods for sampling mite communities in stingless bee hives remain limited. This study aimed to evaluate a novel, low‐cost sampling technique using a custom‐built suction device, the Portable Mite Aspirator (PMA), for collecting mites from hives of ...
Éricles Charles da Silva Melo +4 more
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Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 8, August 2026.ABSTRACT Aim We evaluated how native vegetation cover influences the diversity of arachnid assemblages across multiple spatial scales in major Brazilian ecosystems. Location Brazil (Amazon and Atlantic rainforests, Cerrado savanna and Caatinga dry forest). Taxon Arachnida (Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Methods We sampled arachnids at 120
André F. A. Lira +26 more
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