Many gregarious insects aggregate in naturally occurring refuges on their host plants. However, when refuges are filled, they may be forced to aggregate on exposed areas of the plant. This study examines the effects of refuge saturation on group size and
Finbarr G. HORGAN
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A List of the Scutelleroidea of the La Rue-Pine Hills Ecological Area with Notes on Biology [PDF]
A survey of the scutelleroid fauna of the LaRue-Pine Hills Ecological Area, Union County, Illinois was conducted from May, 1972 to September, 1974. Forty-nine species were collected, five of which were state records. The remaining 44 represented over 57%
McPherson, J. E, Mohlenbrock, R. H
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Native parasitoids of the fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae), an invasive alien pest in northern Iran [PDF]
The fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae), is one of the most important pests of forest trees in northern Iran. In order to identify the native parasitoids of this pest a survey was conducted in Guilan province, in 2019 ...
Amene Karami +4 more
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Mitochondrial genome analysis of Ectophasia roundiventris (Diptera, Tachinidae)
The mitochondrial genome of Ectophasia roundiventris (Loew, 1858), the first representative of subfamily Phasiinae, was sequenced and annotated. So far, there are four Tachinidae mitochondrial genomes, here, all of them are used in Neighbour-Join and ...
Xin Li +5 more
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Ethology and Overwintering of \u3ci\u3ePodalonia Luctuosa\u3c/i\u3e (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) [PDF]
The nesting and overwintering behavior of Podalonia luctuosa (Smith) was studied in New York and Colorado. Females provisioned shallow (ca. 2 cm deep), unicellular nests with a single cutworm (Noctuidae) during April, May, and July.
Kurczewski, Frank E, O\u27Brien, Mark F
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The worldwide status of phasmids (Insecta: Phasmida) as pests of agriculture and forestry, with a generalised theory of phasmid outbreaks [PDF]
© 2015 Baker. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium ...
Baker, E
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الگوی توزیع فضایی لارو پروانه برگ خوار کنار (Thiacidas postica Walker (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae روی درخت کنارZiziphus spina-christi در استان بوشهر [PDF]
تعیین الگوی فضایی حشره عامل مهمی در طراحی یک برنامه مناسب نمونه برداری و برنامه های مدیریت جامع آفات است. پروانه برگخوار کنار Thiacidas postica Walker (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) از آفات درختان کنار در استان های جنوبی کشور به ویژه بوشهر، هرمزگان و ...
ناصر فرار, مصطفی حقانی
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This study aimed to determine the tachinid parasitoids (Diptera: Tachinidae) associated with different hemipteran hosts in Bolu and Düzce provinces in the Western Black Sea region of Türkiye in the period from 2022 to 2024.
İbrahim Ciner +2 more
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BumbleKey: an interactive key for the identification of bumblebees of Italy and Corsica (Hymenoptera, Apidae) [PDF]
BumbleKey is a matrix-based, interactive key to all 45 species of bumblebees of Italy and Corsica. The key allows to identify adult males and females (queens and workers) using morphological characters. The key is published online, open-access, at http://
Cappellari, Andree +3 more
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First report of the mitogenome of Hamaxiella brunnescens (Diptera, Tachinidae) from Beijing, China
Hamaxiella brunnescens (Mesnil, 1967) (Diptera, Tachinidae) is a parasitic fly species and of great ecological importance in natural systems as parasitoids of herbivorous insects. The mitogenome of H.
Liping Yan +3 more
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