Nestmate recognition in social insects: overcoming physiological constraints with collective decision making. [PDF]
, 2010 Social insects rank among the most abundant and influential terrestrial organisms. The key to their success is their ability to form tightly knit social groups that perform work cooperatively, and effectively exclude non-members from the colony.
Johnson, Brian R +2 more
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Potential expanded pollinator distributions in North America under future climate
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, Volume 6, Issue 2, April–June 2025.Most pollinator species, including monarch butterflies, may gain potential climate space in the future. Shifting to new locations is an additional challenge of climate change. Management, restoration and citizen participation to provide resources and reduce stressors are ecological solutions.
Brice B. Hanberry
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Distance transform: a tool for the study of animal colour patterns [PDF]
, 2013 Summary The information in animal colour patterns plays a key role in many ecological interactions; quantification would help us to study them, but this is problematic. Comparing patterns using human judgement is subjective and inconsistent. Traditional
Gilbert, Francis +2 more
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Bee‐Mediated Pollen Transport Across Five Urban Landscape Features: Buildings Are Important Barriers
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 4, April 2025.Urban landscape features may disrupt or facilitate the foraging movements of insect pollinators; for example, bees are more likely to move along roads than across them. Here, we investigated not only roads but also lawns, gardens, forests, and buildings by measuring the transfer of fluorescent dye between flowering plants separated by each feature ...
Olivér I. Roper, Elsa Youngsteadt
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Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity. [PDF]
, 2014 Facial recognition plays a key role in human interactions, and there has been great interest in understanding the evolution of human abilities for individual recognition and tracking social relationships.
Nachman, Michael W, Sheehan, Michael J
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Insects. Ross E. Hutchins. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, Inc., 1966. xii, 324 pp. $6.95. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Contemporary entomological writing usually falls into one of two categories: general picture-books designed. for youngsters, and learned monographs and specialized publications that are generally unavailable and incomprehensible to the layman.
Donahue, Julian P
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Modelling the impacts of an invasive species across landscapes: a step-wise approach [PDF]
, 2014 We estimate the extent of ecological impacts of the invasive Asian paper wasp across different landscapes in New Zealand. We used: (i) a baseline distribution layer (modelled via MaxEnt); (ii) Asian paper wasp nest density (from >460 field plots, related
Darren Ward, Fraser Morgan
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The smell of infection: Disease surveillance in insects using volatile organic compounds
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 81-89, February 2025.Abstract Insects play crucial roles in nearly every ecosystem and provide a wide array of ecosystem services. However, both managed and wild insect populations face threats from parasites and pathogens, which require surveillance to mitigate. Current infectious disease surveillance methods for insects often involve invasive, time‐consuming and ...
Ayman Asiri +2 more
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Urticaria crónica como reacción atípica luego de la picadura de véspidos
Revista Alergia MéxicoAntecedentes: La picadura de himenópteros puede producir reacciones mediadas por IgE, reacciones tóxicas o reacciones atípicas poco frecuentes. Dentro de las manifestaciones cutáneas por reacciones atípicas se incluye urticaria por frío, y sólo existe un
Patricia Andrade Garbán +4 more
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Sociobiology, 2015 Nest reuse has rarely been observed in Polistes wasps. I observed reuse of an old nest in P. chinensis antennalis in Takamatsu, Shikoku Isl. western Japan.
Fuminori Ito
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