Written by Lucas J. Romano
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Carbronid and Sphecid wasps are known for constructing distinctive nests with specific architectural designs, which serve as sites for egg-laying and larval development. This study examined the nest characteristics and prey selection for the mud dauber wasp, Sceliphron madraspatanum, at the A.V.C. College campus from January to March 2019. The research focuses on both active and abandoned nests, revealing that S. madraspatanum nests are typically built on bright surfaces, offering protection fro
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Written by Kenji J. Gonzalez
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
The overuse of synthetic pesticides in agricultural environments has caused numerous issues, including insect resistance and environmental contamination. As a result, research has increasingly turned toward plants with insect-repellent properties. This study aimed to evaluate the insecticidal potential of different extracts of Ocimum gratissimum L. (crude extract, extract fractions, and essential oil) against Nasutitermes termites that damage cocoa crops. The crude extracts were prepared by mace
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Written by Maria Khan
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Antheraea proylei J., a vital silkworm species from the Northeastern region of India, is primarily farmed for tasar silk production. This silkworm is highly susceptible to various pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi, with the recent emergence of the tiger band disease, a viral infection that severely affects larval development and cocoon production, leading to substantial economic losses in the silk industry. The gut microbiota plays a key role in the silkworm's nutrition and i
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Written by Mei Tanaka
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Understanding the changes in insect organisms due to insecticide exposure and their species-specific responses is crucial for comprehending the evolutionary and environmental aspects of pesticide resistance. While the mechanism behind resistance to chlorfenapyr, a pyrrole group insecticide, remains unclear, this study investigates the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity in adult houseflies (Musca domestica) of a chlorfenapyr-resistant strain (ChlA) selected with chlorfenapyr. This research also
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Written by Jonas N. Tanaka
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Over the past decade, Zimbabwe produced about a quarter of the national soya bean requirements, with the remainder being met by imports from neighboring countries such as South Africa, Malawi, and Zambia. This research investigates the potential of Tenebrio molitor larvae, or mealworms, as a sustainable protein source for animal feed. The study investigates the optimal breeding conditions for mealworms in Zimbabwe, focusing on factors such as feed composition, temperature, air circulation, relat
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Written by Lina Hassan
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Insect phenology is commonly represented as the calendar expression of temperature-dependent development, yet seasonal timing is generated by several biologically distinct processes that need not respond to environmental change in parallel. Developmental progression depends on stage-specific thermal responses; dormancy can interrupt otherwise permissive development through photoperiodic, thermal, and internally regulated decisions; and successful seasonal activity additionally requires that exte
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Written by Saif Al-Hinai
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Adult insects do not allocate reproductive effort according to a single clock. Mating-derived signals, ovarian maturation, nutritional and somatic state, and the expected opportunity for future reproduction can change at different rates and can generate similar reproductive outputs from different internal states. This article develops a proposed non-empirical state-space model in which reproductive timing emerges from the joint configuration of four variables: mating history, oogenic readiness,
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Written by Charlotte Dupuis
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Complete metamorphosis reorganizes insect anatomy so extensively that larval and adult phenotypes are often treated as developmentally decoupled. This interpretation is useful but incomplete. Adult construction still depends on resources, physiological states, surviving or newly generated tissues, endocrine decisions, and microbial interactions established before or during metamorphosis. We argue that larval history can therefore influence adults without requiring simple preservation of larval s
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Written by Olivia Bennett
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Environmental uncertainty exposes insect lineages to temporal variation in survival, development, reproduction, and recruitment, yet risk spreading is often discussed primarily through diapause. This emphasis can obscure other life-history routes by which reproductive success may be distributed across times, developmental trajectories, offspring states, and locations. We develop an original non-empirical evolutionary framework in which temporal risk spreading is treated as a property of the dist
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Written by Ethan Wright
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Insect movement is often summarized by path length, displacement, emigration, or arrival, yet these endpoints can obscure the distinct decisions that generate a movement episode. A change in trajectory may reflect sensory acquisition, state-dependent valuation, departure, motor control, updating, or target acceptance rather than a single construct called dispersal motivation. This article develops an evidence-constrained behavioral framework in which sensory sampling and internal-state assessmen
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Written by Yifan Zhao
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Predator avoidance in insects is commonly described through conspicuous defensive outcomes such as vigilance, freezing, escape, hiding, reduced feeding, or altered reproductive behavior. Yet these responses do not represent a single interchangeable cost. Their expression depends on what information an insect detects, its physiological and developmental state, the opportunities displaced by defense, and when the consequences become manifest. Existing evidence establishes substantial context depen
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Written by Erik Van der Meer
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Insect movement is often summarized by a single label such as dispersal, migration, or connectivity, although the underlying sequence includes departure, transfer, settlement, redistribution, and later demographic consequences. Collapsing these levels can make evidence from physiology, tracking, radar, genetics, landscape models, and population monitoring appear more interchangeable than it is. This ecological synthesis uses cross-scale conceptual mapping to organize evidence by movement stage,
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Written by Andrei Popescu
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Ecological niches are commonly described from environmental conditions and resources measured at scales convenient to observers, yet insects encounter physical and biological information at much finer spatial and temporal resolutions. Environmental availability alone therefore cannot specify the sensory world experienced by an individual. This ecological perspective separates five analytically distinct components of that problem: local physical exposure, biologically associated information, peri
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Written by Zsolt Kovács
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Integrative insect taxonomy gains power from combining morphology, molecular data, ecology, behavior, and life-history information, yet disagreement among these domains creates an inferential problem that cannot be solved by simple evidence counting. This article develops a systematic framework for treating concordance and conflict as explicit taxonomic states. The framework separates what an evidence class measures from its reliability, independence, taxonomic relevance, and plausible causes of
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Written by Daniel Fischer
Published on Vol 3 Issue 1, 2023
Phylogenomic discordance is increasingly an expected feature of insect systematics rather than an exceptional failure of inference. The difficulty is therefore not simply detecting conflict among loci, sites, gene trees, or analytical methods, but determining what that conflict can legitimately reveal about species history. Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), introgression, gene-tree estimation error, model misspecification, orthology problems, rate heterogeneity, uneven taxon or locus sampling, m
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