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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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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Newsletter of the Association of Minnesota Entomologists. Edi ted by John H. Ma s t e r s . Vol. 1, No. 1. [~ctober?1]9 66; No. 2 , not received; No. 3, Feb. 1967; No. 4, Aug. 1967. Free to members of the A.M.E., who pay $2.75 a y e a r f o r active and $1.75 for corresponding memberships, which are open to all by contacting John T. Sorensen, 5309 37th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minn. 55417. [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Our brothers in Minnesota have long taken advantage of this good fortune, but only recently has a newsletter appeared to document their activities. It is a folded 24-page silk-screen mimeograph production with heavy stock covers. The inexpensive
Wilkinson, Ronald S
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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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Preliminary Observations on Zelus Obscuridorsis (Stål) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) as Predator of the Corn Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Argentina [PDF]
, 2015 The corn leafhopper Dalbulus maidis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), is an important corn pest in most of tropical and subtropical America. This leafhopper has a rich natural enemy complex of which parasitoids and pathogens are the most studied; knowledge on ...
Melo, María Cecilia +2 more
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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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Análisis de la pintura rupestre del motivo 3 del sector D de QuillaRumi, Huánuco
DesafíosEl objetivo de esta investigación fue reinterpretar el motivo 3 del sector D de las pinturas rupestres de Quilla Rumi (Huánuco), antes considerado ornitomorfo.
Jose Alomia-Lucero, Liana Sixto-Dávila
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Behavioural analysis of web building anomalies in the orb-weaving spider Zygiella x-notata (Araneae, Araneidae) [PDF]
, 2012 Among animal constructions, spider’s orb webs represent regular geometrical architecture models. Their construction is the result of successive, simple and reproducible behavioural patterns, often considered as stereotyped.
Leborgne, Raymond +2 more
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Clypeal patterning in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus: no evidence of adaptive value in the wild [PDF]
, 2016 Status signals function in a number of species to communicate competitive ability to conspecific rivals during competition for resources. In the paper wasp Polistes dominulus, variable black clypeal patterns are thought to be important in mediating ...
Green, Jonathan P. +5 more
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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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