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Modifying M‐44s to reduce risk of activation by swift fox

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016
M‐44s are spring‐powered sodium cyanide ejectors commonly used in the United States to manage livestock depredation by coyotes (Canis latrans). While highly selective for canids, improvements could reduce risk to nontarget canids, especially State ...
Julie K. Young
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The complete mitogenome sequence of the agricultural pest, clover root weevil: the key to its own demise?

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
We report the complete mitogenome of Sitona obsoletus, an agricultural pest in New Zealand and some European countries. Like other Sitona mitogenomes, the 6 tRNA gene box is ordered RNSAEF, supporting the hypothesis that this signature is common to, and ...
Rami A. Al-Jiab, Joanne Gillum, Alana Alexander, Daniel M. Tompkins, Craig B. Phillips, Peter K. Dearden, Neil J. Gemmell   +6 more
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Daily consumption and functional response of Stethorus gilvifrons (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) and Orius albidipennis (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) to Tetranychus urticae (Acari: Tetranychidae)

Persian Journal of Acarology, 2018
The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch, is one of the most economically important pests on a wide range of crops around the world. Consumption rate and functional responses of all larval stages, male and female of Stethorus gilvifrons ...
Masoud Taghizadeh, Karim Haddad Irani-Nejad, Shahzad Iranipour, Mohammad Moghaddam   +3 more
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Parasitoid wasps as effective biological control agents

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2019
Biological control (biocontrol) is a safe, sustainable approach that takes advantage of natural enemies such as predators, parasitic insects or pathogens to manage pests in agroecosystems. Parasitoid wasps, a very large evolutionary group of hymenopteran
Zhi-zhi WANG, Yin-quan LIU, Min SHI, Jian-hua HUANG, Xue-xin CHEN   +4 more
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Does a Change from Whole to Powdered Food (Artemia franciscana eggs) Increase Oviposition in the Ladybird Coleomegilla maculata?

Insects, 2015
The limited availability of alternative foods to replace natural prey hinders cost-effective mass production of ladybird beetles for augmentative biological control. We compared the effects of powdered vs. whole Artemia franciscana (A.
Eric W. Riddick, Zhixin Wu
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Development and survival of nymphs of Podisus nigrispinus (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) fed with caterpillars of Chlosyne lacinia saundersii (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2009
The development and survival of Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) nymphs fed on larvae of Chlosyne lacinia saundersii Doubleday & Hewitson (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) was studied at 25 ± 1ºC, 68 ± 10% relative humidity and 12 h ...
Carlos Alberto Domingues da Silva, Teresinha Vinha Zanuncio, Bruno Gomes Cunha, Ancidériton Antonio de Castro, Glauco da Cruz Canevari, José Eduardo Serrão, José Cola Zanuncio   +6 more
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Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa

Scientific Reports
Protected areas are traditionally the foundation of conservation strategy, but land not formally protected is of particular importance for the conservation of large carnivores because of their typically wide-ranging nature.
McKaughan J.E.T., Stephens P.A., Lucas C., Guichard-Kruger N., Guichard-Kruger F., Hill R.A.   +5 more
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Exigências térmicas de Doru lineare Eschs. e Doru luteipes Scudder em laboratório Thermal requirements of Doru lineare Eschs. and Doru luteipes Scudder in the laboratory

Ciência Rural, 2010
Algumas espécies de tesourinhas (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) são importantes predadoras da lagarta-do-cartucho do milho Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Amarildo Pasini, José Roberto Postali Parra, Dori Edson Nava, Alessandra Regina Butnariu   +3 more
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How territoriality and sociality influence the habitat selection and movements of a large carnivore

Ecology and Evolution
While territoriality is one of the key mechanisms influencing carnivore space use, most studies quantify resource selection and movement in the absence of conspecific influence or territorial structure.
K. Whitney Hansen, Nathan Ranc, John Morgan, Neil R. Jordan, J. Weldon McNutt, Alan Wilson, Christopher C. Wilmers   +6 more
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Small aquatic and ripicolous bugs (Heteroptera: Nepomorpha) as predators and prey: The question of economic importance

European Journal of Entomology, 2001
Some features of the biology and feeding relationships of small waterbugs (Notonectidae, Corixidae, Pleidae, Helotrephidae, Aphelocheiridae) and ripicolous bugs (Gelastocoridae, Ochteridae) are reviewed.
Miroslav PAPÁČEK
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