wasfunded by a project of the Planting Management Depart-ment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs(152307023);the Science and Technology Programof Qiandongnan Prefecture(Qiandongnan[2021]07).
Bumblebees play an important ecological economic role as pollinators in natureand agriculture.For reasons of biosecurity,many countries promote the cultivation of na-tive bumblebee species for crop pollination instead...
We thank the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand for funding to H.J.P.;Stuart Gilchrist for enabling GBS alignments to the prepublication B.tryoni reference genome.This study was conducted as part of the"Phenology,demography,and distribution of Australia's fruit flies"project,funded through the Strengthening Australia's Fruit Fly System Research Program;Funding for the program is provided by the Australian Government,with contributions matched from state and territory governments.
Bactrocera tryoni and Bactrocera neohumeralis are morphologically similar sibling pest fruit fly species that possess different biological attributes,geographic distributions,and host ranges.The need to differentiate ...
support from the Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche(IFAB);This study was financed by project BID PICT 2015-1150 provided by the "Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecno-logica"(Argentina),project PUE 00692018-IFAB and project B215 from the Universidad Nacional del Comahue,Centro Regional Universitario Bariloche.
Decisions made by foraging animals conform a complex process based on the integration of information from multiple external environmental stimuli and internal physiological signals,which in turn are modulated by indiv...
This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31500530), and the Young Investigator Research Grant to Cai Wang (provided by the College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University).
Many previous studies have focused on the foraging behaviors and strategies of the red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren on solid food or granular bait; little attention has been paid to how liquid sugar is...
Social bees, like honeybees and bumblebees, have a close contact with nest mates of different developmental stages and generations. This could enhance bacterial transfer between nest mates and offers opportunities for...
We compared the calling and mating behavior and volatile release of wild males Anastrepha ludens (Loew) with males from 4 mass-reared strains: (i) a stan- dard mass-reared colony (control), (ii) a genetic sex...
The diet of the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus was investigated at two sites with distinct dietary components: C4 grasses (δ13 C isotope values, -13.8%0 to -14.0%0) and C3 plants (δ13C isotope values, ...