Insect winter ecology describes the overwinter survival strategies of insects, which are in many respects more similar to those of plants than to many...
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the head. Another freeze-tolerant beetle is Upis ceramboides. See insect winter ecology and antifreeze protein. Another invertebrate that is briefly tolerant...
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Insect migration is the seasonal movement of insects, particularly those by species of dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. The distance can vary...
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Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insect)
(2009). Insect Behavior. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 187–189. ISBN 978-90-481-2389-6. Bedford, Geoffrey O. (1978). "Biology and Ecology of the...
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evaluating insect population dynamics. It is one of very few lepidopterans of temperate regions in which adults are active in late autumn and early winter. The...
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ISBN 978-0-313-38426-4. "Scale insects". Gardeners' World. Retrieved 16 January 2020. ScaleNet Nair, K. S. S. (2007). Tropical Forest Insect Pests: Ecology, Impact, and...
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with estimates of the rate of climate change in general. Insect ecology Population ecology Pesticide resistance Insecticide Pest control Meyer, John...
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Coccinellidae (category Insects used as insect pest control agents)
food source. Like most insects, they develop from larva to pupa to adult. Temperate species hibernate and diapause during the winter; tropical species are...
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form of migration in ecology. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans. The...
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Euonymus europaeus (section Habitat and ecology)
europaeus is the almost exclusive winter host of the black bean aphid. Because of the potential economic loss from this insect that feeds on cultivated broad...
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Western honey bee (redirect from Utah state insect)
Retrieved 2016-02-08. Crane E (1990). "Honey from honeybees and other insects". Ethology Ecology & Evolution. 3 (sup1): 100–105. doi:10.1080/03949370.1991.10721919...
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Honey bee (redirect from Apis (insect))
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia. After bees...
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Generalist and specialist species (redirect from Generalist (ecology))
Retrieved 2024-06-14. Langellotto, Gail (2021-07-28). "Insect specialists". Garden Ecology Lab. Retrieved 2024-06-14. "What is the role of native bees...
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River ecosystem (redirect from Stream ecology)
1146/annurev.ento.43.1.271. PMID 15012391. Ward, J. V. 1992. Aquatic Insect Ecology: biology and habitat. Wiley, New York. P. 456. Watson, D. J.; Balon...
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Wētā (redirect from Weta (insect))
(also spelled weta in English) is the common name for a group of about 100 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae endemic to...
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Lake ecosystem (redirect from Pond ecology)
competition. Sommer et al. described these patterns as part of the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) model, with 24 statements constructed from the analysis of...
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Gyne (redirect from Queen (insect))
Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites)...
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Goldenrod gall fly (category Insects described in 1855)
to as a gall. E. solidaginis’s interactions with its host plant(s) and insect, as well as avian, predators have made it the centerpiece of much ecological...
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Termite (redirect from Isoptera-Behavior and Ecology)
Tropical Insect Science. 9 (1): 37–39. doi:10.1017/S1742758400009991. S2CID 84743428. Traniello, J.F.A.; Leuthold, R.H. (2000). Behavior and Ecology of Foraging...
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Hornet (category Insects used as insect pest control agents)
Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to yellowjackets, their close relatives. Some...
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with plants. During the winter, this species consumes less insects than they do during the summer due to a decrease in the insect population. The round-eared...
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Structure, Function, Behavior, and Ecology". In Conner, William E. (ed.). Tiger Moths and Woolly Bears: Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution of the Arctiidae...
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and voltinism in a polyphagous insect herbivore. Ecology 78: 977-986. [5] Timothy Duane Schowalter (2011). Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach. Academic...
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Boxelder bug (category Household pest insects)
suitable structures. The eastern boxelder bug is sometimes confused with insects belonging to the genera Jadera, Pyrrhocoris, and Melacoryphus. They may...
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Cockroach (redirect from Roach (insect))
Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History. JHU Press. pp. 55–58. ISBN 978-0-8018-8616-4. Costa, James T. (2006). The Other Insect Societies. Harvard...
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Herbivore (category Ecology terminology)
plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines". Journal of Ecology. 105 (1): 142–151. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12664...
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Mosquito (redirect from Nipper (insect))
breeds in the pitchers of pitcher plants, its larvae feeding on decaying insects that have drowned there. Oviposition, egg-laying, varies between species...
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Ant (category Insects in culture)
(1992). "Capitula on stick insect eggs and elaiosomes on seeds: convergent adaptations for burial by ants". Functional Ecology. 6 (6): 642–648. Bibcode:1992FuEco...
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are important to cave ecology, because they commonly feed outside and import material that serves as food when they return. Insect species such as some...
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Vespula germanica (category Insects described in 1793)
abundant honeydew produced by the beech-scale insect there. This has a serious effect on forest ecology, as less honeydew remains available for native...
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