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    Zoologist. He befriended Wallace and started him collecting insects. When Wallace's brother William died in March 1845, Wallace left his teaching position...
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    Hymenopus coronatus (category Insects of Indonesia)
    caterpillars and other insect larvae. Some are cannibalistic, eating their own kind when one strays too close. Alfred Russel Wallace in his 1889 book Darwinism...
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  • Entomology American Entomologist Arthropod Management Tests Journal of Insect Science Insect Systematics and Diversity Journal of Integrated Pest Management...
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    Yellowjacket (category Insect common names)
    are capable of stinging. Yellowjackets are important predators of pest insects. Yellowjackets may be confused with other wasps, such as hornets and paper...
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  • agriculture. They are a major producer of genetically modified crops with insect and herbicide resistance. As of 2019, Pioneer is a wholly owned subsidiary...
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    Vereecken, Nicolas (2018). "Wallace's Giant Bee for sale: implications for trade regulation and conservation" (PDF). Journal of Insect Conservation. 22 (5–6):...
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    as Alfred Russel Wallace (1852) and Henry Walter Bates (1862). Hans Zinsser's classic Rats, Lice and History (1935) showed that insects were an important...
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    Deathwatch beetle (category Household pest insects)
    aged oak timbers, which the beetles prefer. To attract mates, the adult insects create a tapping or ticking sound that can sometimes be heard in the rafters...
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  • Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention is a British science-themed miniseries, starring Peter Sallis, Ashley Jensen, Jem Stansfield, and John Sparkes,...
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    The term was coined in 1877 by Edward Bagnall Poulton for Alfred Russel Wallace's concept of warning coloration. Aposematism is exploited in Müllerian mimicry...
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  • Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is an episodic graphic adventure game based around the characters of Wallace and Gromit created by Nick Park and Aardman...
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    Flea circus (category Insects in culture)
    v t e Human interactions with insects Aspects of insects in culture Pioneers Jan Swammerdam Alfred Russel Wallace Jean-Henri Fabre Hans Zinsser (Rats...
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  • listed 343 endangered insect species. Of all evaluated insect species, 5.7% are listed as endangered. The IUCN also lists 21 insect subspecies as endangered...
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    Spotted lanternfly (category Insect pests of temperate forests)
    forests which was feared at the outset did not come to pass. Unlike some insects, the spotted lanternfly does not pose direct danger to humans through biting...
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  • Chef in Love 1996 (69th) 0 1 An Essay on Matisse 1996 (69th) 0 1 Angels & Insects 1996 (69th) 0 1 Breaking the Waves 1996 (69th) 0 1 Canhead 1996 (69th)...
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    centipede Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans (Arthropoda: Chilopoda)". Journal of Insect Physiology. 58 (6): 874–880. doi:10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.03.014. ISSN 0022-1910...
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  • if symptoms appear to be improving. Common causes include allergies to insect bites and stings, allergies to foods – including nuts, milk, fish, shellfish...
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    Rubbing Charlie (2003), TV, as Dean Going to California (2001), TV series, as Insect Bob Space Cowboys (2000) as Young Jerry (as John Mallory Asher) The New...
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  • enslave them" and eventually utters the line "And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords". Author Chris Turner called it "perhaps his finest hour as a...
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    Predation (redirect from Predatory insect)
    social wasps such as yellowjackets are both hunters and scavengers of other insects. While examples of predators among mammals and birds are well known, predators...
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    Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), also known as the gliding frog or the Abah River flying frog, is a moss frog found at least from the...
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    A genetically modified (GM) insect is an insect that has been genetically modified, either through mutagenesis, or more precise processes of transgenesis...
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    This glossary of entomology describes terms used in the formal study of insect species by entomologists. abbreviate(d) (adjective) Of an organ or member:...
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    collected insects in Charnwood Forest. In 1843 he had a short paper on beetles published in the journal Zoologist. He became friends with Wallace when the...
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    Fertilised by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing John Murray, London. HTML fulltext Beccaloni, George (April 2010). "Darwin and Wallace's Predictions...
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    Beetle (category Insects in culture)
    Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (/koʊliːˈɒptərə/), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases...
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  • Halloween III: Season of the Witch (category Films directed by Tommy Lee Wallace)
    film series. It is the first film to be written and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. John Carpenter and Debra Hill, the creators of Halloween and Halloween...
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    Adansonia perrieri or Perrier's baobab. In January 1862 while researching insect pollination of orchids, Charles Darwin received a package of orchids from...
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    Russel Wallace, reviewing Poulton in Nature, was interested by Poulton's observations on thin films producing iridescence: "In some cases dried insects lose...
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    Mayfly (category Aquatic insects)
    1016/S0380-1330(05)70315-4. Merritt, Richard W.; Wallace, J. Bruce (April 1981). "Filter-feeding Insects" (PDF). Scientific American. 244 (4): 132–136,...
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