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Insects, Volume 5, Issue 1

2014 March - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,382 Views
14 Pages

Densities of Agrilus auroguttatus and Other Borers in California and Arizona Oaks

  • Laurel J. Haavik,
  • Tom W. Coleman,
  • Mary Louise Flint,
  • Robert C. Venette and
  • Steven J. Seybold

21 March 2014

We investigated within-tree population density of a new invasive species in southern California, the goldspotted oak borer, Agrilus auroguttatus Schaeffer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), with respect to host species and the community of other borers prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,706 Views
15 Pages

Screening of Repellents against Vespid Wasps

  • Jean-Luc Boevé,
  • Kris Honraet and
  • Bart Rossel

6 March 2014

Vespid wasps are ecologically beneficial, but they can be a nuisance and dangerous to people due to their tendency to sting. Here, the aim was to screen samples of volatiles (i.e., essential oils and pure chemicals) for their repellency against wasp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,311 Views
27 Pages

Honey Bee Location- and Time-Linked Memory Use in Novel Foraging Situations: Floral Color Dependency

  • Marisol Amaya-Márquez,
  • Peggy S. M. Hill,
  • Charles I. Abramson and
  • Harrington Wells

14 February 2014

Learning facilitates behavioral plasticity, leading to higher success rates when foraging. However, memory is of decreasing value with changes brought about by moving to novel resource locations or activity at different times of the day. These premis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,111 Views
16 Pages

23 January 2014

Conventional chemical control compounds used for the management of insect pests have been much maligned, but still serve a critical role in protecting people and agricultural products from insect pests, as well as conserving biodiversity by eradicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,277 Views
28 Pages

21 January 2014

Adaptations to “thermal time” (=Degree-day) constraints on developmental rates and voltinism for North American tiger swallowtail butterflies involve most life stages, and at higher latitudes include: smaller pupae/adults; larger eggs; oviposition on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,568 Views
32 Pages

7 January 2014

This paper describes a mathematical model of the learning process suitable for studies of conditioning using the proboscis extension reflex (PER) in honey bees when bees are exposed to agrochemicals. Although procedural variations exist in the way la...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,358 Views
28 Pages

6 January 2014

This review focuses on common insecticidal virulence factors from entomopathogenic bacteria with special emphasis on two insect pathogenic bacteria Photorhabdus (Proteobacteria: Enterobacteriaceae) and Bacillus (Firmicutes: Bacillaceae). Insect patho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
11,337 Views
19 Pages

The Bee as a Model to Investigate Brain and Behavioural Asymmetries

  • Elisa Frasnelli,
  • Albrecht Haase,
  • Elisa Rigosi,
  • Gianfranco Anfora,
  • Lesley J. Rogers and
  • Giorgio Vallortigara

2 January 2014

The honeybee Apis mellifera, with a brain of only 960,000 neurons and the ability to perform sophisticated cognitive tasks, has become an excellent model in life sciences and in particular in cognitive neurosciences. It has been used in our laborator...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,421 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2013

It is known that the honeybee, Apis mellifera, uses olfactory stimulus as important information for orienting to food sources. Several studies on olfactory-induced orientation flight have been conducted in wind tunnels and in the field. From these st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,401 Views
15 Pages

31 December 2013

Asian longhorned beetle (ALB), Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky), is an invasive insect that has successfully established multiple times in North America. To investigate host colonization and reproductive success (exit holes/eggs), two ALB infe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,710 Views
61 Pages

24 December 2013

Comprising 50%–75% of the world’s fauna, insects are a prominent part of biodiversity in communities and ecosystems globally. Biodiversity across all levels of biological classifications is fundamentally based on genetic diversity. However, the integ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
17,364 Views
30 Pages

24 December 2013

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has been used successfully as a biopesticide for more than 60 years. More recently, genes encoding their toxins have been used to transform plants and other organisms. Despite the large amount of research on this bacterium...

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