The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, is a structural pest of major economic importance in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the United States Gulf coast on August 29, 2005, inundating
Carrie Cottone +3 more
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LA NATURE EN VILLE : LES ÉC(H)O-RÉSEAUX DE JEAN ROLIN
Nature in the City: Jean Rolin's Eco-networks. The city is an increasingly controversial place to live in because of the tensions that it bears and which reshape its ontological conditions. The materials that compose it and the forms of interaction that
Marinella TERMITE
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LES LIGNES ANGLAISES D’EMMANUEL CARRÈRE : LA GREFFE DE "BRAVOURE"
Emmanuel Carrere’s English lines: the case of grafting in the novel Bravoure. The kind of sharing that supports the testamentary type of tools is based as much on the transmission of programmatic filiation as on creative networks capable of bypassing ...
Marinella TERMITE
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Termite nests as an abundant source of cultivable actinobacteria for biotechnological purposes [PDF]
A total of 118 actinobacterial isolates were collected from the three types of termite nests (mound, carton, and subterranean nests) to evaluate their potential as a source of bioactive actinobacteria with antimicrobial activity.
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The chemical and mineral composition of raw and boiled seeds of the African locust bean, Parkia biglobosa (Jacq) Benth, was determined while the termiticidal action of the aqueous, alcoholic, and acetone extracts of the bean seeds were investigated ...
Bolarinwa Olugbemi
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Persistency of Chlorpyrifos and Termiban (Imidacloprid) in soil against subterranean termites
Subterranean termites are considered to be one of the most destructive termites in urban areas in Pakistan. Different types of insecticides have been used to control subterranean termites.
B. Hassan, S. Ahmed, M.A. Ejaz
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ÉCRIRE AVEC LES ANIMAUX : LES CHOIX INATTENDUS DE BARBEY D’AUREVILLY
Writing with Animals: The Unexpected Choices of Barbey d’Aurevilly. In the pages of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, the presence of animals makes it possible to rethink the forms of scriptural cohabitation of humans and non-humans at a time when the appeal of
Marinella TERMITE
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Taxonomic Features and Comparison of the Gut Microbiome from Two Edible Fungus-Farming Termites (Macrotermes falciger, M. natalensis) Harvested in the Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa [PDF]
Background Termites are an important food resource for many human populations around the world, and are a good supply of nutrients. The fungus-farming ‘higher’ termite members of Macrotermitinae are also consumed by modern great apes and are implicated ...
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Termite‐Termite Interactions: Workers as an Agonistic Caste [PDF]
Termite soldiers are a defensive caste. Their heavily sclerotized head capsules can be equipped with hard mandibles capable of crushing, pinching, piercing, or slashing predators. Soldier castes of many phylogenetically advanced species have well-developed frontal glands and are capable of exuding or spraying chemical secretions.
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To DGC or not to DGC: oxygen guarding in the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis (Isoptera: Termopsidae) [PDF]
The ability of some insects to engage in complex orchestrations of tracheal gas exchange has been well demonstrated, but its evolutionary origin remains obscure.
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