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Beetles of Eastern North America. Arthur V. Evans. 2014. Princeton &University Press, 560 pp., 8x10 paperback. ISBN:9780691133041. Price: 35.00. [PDF]

, 2018
(excerpt) Those of you who know me may think I’ve always been a “beetle guy” but growing up in southwestern Michigan and loving to trout fish, my first real insect infatuation was with aquatic insects.
Young, Daniel K
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Raman Signature of the Wings of the Globe Skimmer Dragonfly: Pantala flavescens

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
Raman spectroscopy is used to confirm the presence of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and related derivatives including aldehydes, halides, alcohols, acids, esters, and phenols on the wings of Pantala flavescens. The analysis indicates that wing‐surface lipid composition is largely consistent across the three main ecological zones in Ghana. Notably,
Rachel Desulme, Eva Gates, Myah Massiah, Malek Stafford, Lou Bellinghausen, Lillian Blanchard, Henry Adamson, Evajoice Otoo, Thomas D. Dovie, Abdul A. R. M. Rashid, Ebenezer Boakye, Calvin A. Asiedu, Princess W. Coffie, Hilda Armonle, Abigail Mensah, Kofi W. Adu, Jessica L. Ware, Lara D. LaDage, Rofela Combey, Ekaterina S. Kiseeva   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of thorax architecture in ant castes highlights trade-off between flight and ground behaviors [PDF]

, 2014
The concerted evolution of morphological and behavioral specializations has compelling examples in ant castes. Unique to ants is a marked divergence between winged queens and wingless workers, but morphological specializations for behaviors on the ground
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Structural stability of plant–pollinator interactions despite seasonal abundance of long‐tongued hawkmoths

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seasonal environmental cycles affect plant–pollinator interactions by altering plant phenology. Periods of low resource availability can filter pollinators and reduce the complexity of interaction networks, but the extent to which the functional morphology of pollinators influences such filtering remains unclear.
Ugo M. Diniz, Luis M. Primo, Francisco A. R. Santos, Isabel C. Machado   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energetics of pupal-adult metamorphosis in the silkworm, Bombyx mori : An analysis of transdeamination parameters in the fat body and haemolymph [PDF]

, 2018
Transdeamination seems to be an important alternative energy-intensive gluconeogenesis mechanism that generates glucose from non-carbohydrate sources during pupal-adult metamorphosis in Bombyx mori. Studies on four transdeamination parameters, viz., free
Bhuvaneswari, E., Sivaprasad, S.
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Omics Insights Into the Effects of Highbush Blueberry and Cranberry Crop Agroecosystems on Honey Bee Health and Physiology

PROTEOMICS, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are vital pollinators in fruit‐producing agroecosystems like highbush blueberry (HBB) and cranberry (CRA). However, their health is threatened by multiple interacting stressors, including pesticides, pathogens, and nutritional changes.
Huan Zhong, Yuming Shi, Aleksandra Kozlova, Renata Moravcova, Jason C. Rogalski, Aidan Jamieson, Lance Lansing, Kyung‐Mee Moon, Xiaojing Yuan, Amanda S. Gregoris, Heather Higo, Julia Common, Ida M. Conflitti, Mateus Pepinelli, Lan Tran, Morgan Cunningham, Hosna Jabbari, Syed Abbas Bukhari, Sarah K. French, Rodrigo Ortega Polo, Shelley E. Hoover, Stephen F. Pernal, Pierre Giovenazzo, M. Marta Guarna, Amro Zayed, Leonard J. Foster   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

The correlation between wing kinematics and steering muscle activity in the blowfly Calliphora vicina [PDF]

, 2001
Determining how the motor patterns of the nervous system are converted into the mechanical and behavioral output of the body is a central goal in the study of locomotion.
Balint, Claire N., Dickinson, Michael H.
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Origin and peripheral distribution of the thoracic and abdominal median nerves in the fifth instar larva of the silkworm, Bombyx mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) [PDF]

, 2010
The origin and peripheral distribution of the median nerves of the prothoracic and sixth abdominal ganglia have been traced using methylene blue staining technique.
Sivaprasad, S.
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Comparative lipidomic and proteomic analysis reveals species‐specific differences in midgut composition and insecticide absorption between Apis mellifera and Bombus terrestris

Pest Management Science, EarlyView.
Lipidomic and proteomic analysis revealed large‐scale differences in the midgut composition of the honeybee Apis mellifera and the buff‐tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris. These differences correlated to increased insecticide absorption in the bumblebee when using an ex vivo Ussing chamber and subsequently in vivo feeding assay (created in Biorender ...
Emmanouil Kokkas, Joseph Hawkins, Lauraine Swindale, Aniko Kende, John Sinclair, Jacob M Riveron, Helen Thompson, Adam Pym   +7 more
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Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy sheds new light on the head anatomy of an extremely miniaturized insect larva (Strepsiptera)

Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2016
Serial cross sections (80 nm) and an image stack (353 sections) of the head of the extremely miniaturized first instar larvae of Stylops ovinae (Stylopidae) were obtained with serial block-face scanning electron microscopy. This approach made it possible
Pieter Knauthe, R. Beutel, T. Hörnschemeyer, H. Pohl   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source