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Water Scorpions, Water Stick-Insects Ranatra spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Nepidae)

open access: yesEDIS, 2021
Commonly mistaken for other objects due to its appearance, hence the common name water stick-insect, this slender reddish-brown insect is commonly found in fresh or brackish water (a mix of salt and fresh water) (Anufriyeva et al. 2016). They are ambush
Taryn Griffith, Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman
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A twig-like insect stuck in the Permian mud indicates early origin of an ecological strategy in Hexapoda evolution

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Full body impressions and resting traces of Hexapoda can be of extreme importance because they bring crucial information on behavior and locomotion of the trace makers, and help to better define trophic relationships with other organisms (predators or ...
Antoine Logghe   +5 more
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Stick Insect Antennae

open access: yesScholarpedia, 2014
Insects have an elaborate sense of touch. Their most important source for tactile information is the pair of feelers on the head: the antennae (Figure 1; singular: antenna). The stick insect Carausius morosus is one of four major study organisms for the insect tactile sense.
Dürr, Volker   +3 more
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Fundamental and realized feeding niche breadths of sexual and asexual stick insects. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Biol Sci, 2018
The factors contributing to the maintenance of sex over asexuality in natural populations remain largely unknown. Ecological divergences between lineages with different reproductive modes could help to maintain reproductive polymorphisms, at least ...
Larose C, Parker DJ, Schwander T.
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Chemiluminescent Tags for Tracking Insect Movement in Darkness: Application to Moth Photo-Orientation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The flight tracks of Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) flying toward a 5 watt incandescent light bulb were recorded under low light conditions with the aid of a camera-mounted photomultiplier and a glowing marker technique.
Gewax, Lawrence J   +3 more
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Reconstructing the nonadaptive radiation of an ancient lineage of ground‐dwelling stick insects (Phasmatodea: Heteropterygidae)

open access: yes, 2021
Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are large terrestrial herbivorous arthropods known for masquerading as plant parts such as bark, twigs and leaves.
Sarah Bank   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Method for rearing Cladomorphus phyllinus Gray, 1835 (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) under laboratory conditions

open access: yesEntomological Communications, 2020
Cladomorphus phyllinus Gray, 1835 (Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae) is a species of stick bug native to Brazil and considered one of the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Caio C. Truzi   +4 more
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Development and Evaluation of a Serum Transfusion Process in the Thorny Devil Stick Insect (Eurycantha calcarata)

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
The thorny devil stick insect (Eurycantha calcarata) is a common invertebrate maintained under human care. Blood (hemolymph) transfusions are a widely used therapeutic tool in other species, but investigation in terrestrial arthropods remains scarce ...
Taylor M. Gregory   +5 more
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Independent wing reductions and losses among stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea), supported by new Cretaceous fossils in amber

open access: yesBMC Biology, 2023
Background Phasmatodea (stick and leaf insects) play a central role on the debate regarding wing reduction and loss, and its wings are putative reacquisition from secondarily wingless ancestors based solely on extant species.
Hongru Yang   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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