Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018 Larval food preferences and various life cycle stages of Pieris brassicae nepalensis, a white butterfly of family pieridae was observed on Tropaeolum majus, nasturtiun, the Indian Cress an orange coloured, garden ornamental plant, in district Almora ...
Bhawana Kapkoti Negi, Ravindra K. Joshi
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Studies on pollinator fauna and their relative abundance of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India [PDF]
, 2013 Pollinators provide key services to both natural and agricultural ecosystems. Agricultural productivity depends, in part on pollinator populations from adjacent semi natural habitats.The diversity and abundance of different insect visitors on sunflower ...
Goswami, Vimla, Khan, M. S., Usha, Usha
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, 2013 The family Nymphalidae is the largest family within the true butterflies and has been used to develop hypotheses explaining evolutionary interactions between plants and insects.
Espeland, Marianne, Peña, Carlos
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Relatedness and Population Differentiation in a Colonial Butterfly, Eucheira socialis (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) [PDF]
, 2017 Eucheira socialis (Westwood) occurs above 1,800 m in mountains throughout Mexico and has a remarkable suite of autapomorphies, including communal larval nests and a mean primary sex ratio of 70% males.
Geiger, HansjüRg +4 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2017 A study was conducted on the butterflies of the Chittagong University Campus (CUC), Bangladesh between March 2014 and May 2015. A total of 142 species of butterflies belonging to 87 genera and six families (Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae ...
Ibrahim Khalil Al Haidar +3 more
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Experimental Evaluation of Arthropod Predation on Pieris rapae (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) Eggs and Larvae in Cabbage [PDF]
, 2017 Knowledge of factors causing mortality in herbivorous insects is essential to developing a better understanding of their population dynamics and more effective strategies to manage their abundance in crops.
Schmaedick, M. A., Shelton, A. M.
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Revisiting the Andean butterfly Eryphanis zolvizora group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) : one or several species? [PDF]
, 2014 Eryphanis zolvizora (Hewitson, 1877) is a rare Andean endemic butterfly, described from Bolivia, which has been historically classified either as a unique species, or as part of a group of three allopatric species from Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia.
Blandini, Patrick +5 more
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An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Honduras [PDF]
, 2012 A biodiversity inventory of the Lepidoptera of Pico Bonito National Park and vicinity, in the Department of Atlantida of northern Honduras, was initiated in 2009 to obtain baseline data.
Miller, Jaqueline Y. +8 more
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A contribution key for identification of butterflies (Lepidoptera) of Tehsil Tangi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan [PDF]
Arthropods, 2016 The butterflies are the useful bio-indicators of an ecosystem, sensitive to any change in environment, such as temperature, microclimate and solar radiation etc, however, they utilize host plants for their oviposition and larval development.
Farzana Khan Perveen, Haroon
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Inventarisasi Serangga Polinator di Lahan Pertanian Semangka (Citrulus Lanatus) Kota Pekanbaru dan Pengembangannya untuk Sumber Belajar pada Konsep Keanekaragaman Hayati di SMA [PDF]
, 2015 The research was conducted to determine the types of insect pollinators on watermelon (Citrulus lanatus) agricultural land Pekanbaru City in February to June, 2014.
Angriani, O. (Okta) +2 more
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