New records of shore flies (Diptera, Ephydridae) from Morocco [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and SystematicsAmong the 45 collected and identified species, one genus (Scoliocephalus Becker, 1903) and nine species of shore flies (Diptera, Ephydridae) are recorded for the first time in Morocco of which seven species are new to the North African region ...
Rachida Akhrif +6 more
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Machine Learning Quantifies Fine-Scale Hairiness in Shore Flies (Diptera: Ephydridae). [PDF]
J MorpholABSTRACT Morphological analysis of fine structures on small insects is often labor intensive, scale‐limited, and biased by sampling or organismal life history. We used a pixel classification machine‐learning workflow with the open source programs Ilastik and Fiji to identify and quantify microtrichia in ...
Abraham SM +3 more
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\u3ci\u3eAnaphes\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) Reared from the Eggs of a Shore Fly (Diptera: Ephydridae) [PDF]
, 2017 Members of the family Mymaridae are obligate parasitoids of insect eggs, and some species attack the eggs of aquatic insects. Only one account of egg parasitism by the mymarid genus Anaphes on Diptera has been disclosed in the literature.
Foote, B. A +2 more
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Checklist of the family Ephydridae of Finland (Insecta, Diptera)
ZooKeys, 2014 A checklist of 112 species of shore flies (Ephydridae, Diptera) recorded from Finland is presented. Comparing this to the list of Hackman (1980), 52 changes are made: 25 species are added (all but one recorded after 1980), 18 misidentifications are ...
Tadeusz Zatwarnicki, Jere Kahanpää
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Observations on the Nesting of \u3ci\u3eCrabro Tenuis\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
, 2017 Three nests of Crabro tenuis were studied during June 1971-1972 in Oswego County, New York. Females constructed shallow but lengthy, multicelled nests in sand with the cells being built in clusters, sometimes in series. Females plugged the entrances with
Kurczewski, Frank E, Miller, Richard C
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Disease Development on Lisianthus Following Aerial Transmission of Fusarium avenaceum by Adult Shore Flies, Fungus Gnats, and Moth Flies [PDF]
Plant Disease, 2005 Fusarium crown and stem rot of lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum), caused by Fusarium avenaceum, is a destructive disease in California. The pathogen produces large masses of orangecolored macroconidia on stem lesions that extend up to 35 cm in length from the soil surface.
Z A, El-Hamalawi, M E, Stanghellini
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Comparative Behavior of \u3ci\u3ePyrellia Cyanicolor\u3c/i\u3e (Diptera: Muscidae) on the Moss \u3ci\u3eSplachnum Ampullaceum\u3c/i\u3e and on Substrates of Nutritional Value [PDF]
, 2017 (excerpt) Entomophily is commonly associated with flowering plants and their pollen vectors, but also occurs in other groups of plants. Among fungi, several genera of Phallaceae offer food rewards to calliphorid and muscid flies, which inadvertently ...
Cameron, Randall G, Troilo, David B
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Shoreline Aggregation Behavior of Adults of a Midge, Chironomus Sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae) at Solberg Lake, Wisconsin [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: Adult chironomid midges are well known to visitors at northern Wisconsin lakes during the spring and summer. Although the larval stages of chironomids supplement the diet of fish, the adults are often a nuisance because they aggregate in huge ...
Wilson, Louis F
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Augmentative releases of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) control in a fruit-growing region of Argentina [PDF]
, 2016 Field-open augmentative releases were conducted to assess the efficacy of Diachasmimorpha longicaudata (Ashmead) for the regulation of Ceratitis capitata (Weidemann) infesting Ficus carica (L.) in a commercial area located in a fruit-producing irrigated ...
Bilbao, Mariana +8 more
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Use of Spotted Knapweed/Star Thistle (Asterales: Asteraceae) as the Primary Source of Nectar by Early Migrating Monarch Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from Beaver Island, Michigan [PDF]
, 2019 Recent observations over the past decade suggest that the invasive star thistle (aka spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L.) provides much of the nectar that supports monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in their pre-migratory and early migratory flight
Douglas, Matthew M
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