1.to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws 2.(of animals, insects, etc) to injure by puncturing or tearing (the skin or flesh) with the teeth, fangs, etc, esp as a natural characteristic 3.(tr) to cut or penetrate, as with a knife ...
The stinging insects belong to the order Hymenoptera, a highly evolved group of insects, some of which display very complex patterns of behaviour. Relatively few species are pests and many of them are beneficial, since they parasitize other, more harmful insects. The characteristic of the order ...
The largest proportion of the insects were identified as Culiseta annulata (Schrank) (Diptera: Culicidae) [10]. There is an increasing body of research showing that EMF or similar devices using pulses (PEMFs) are now being used experimentally in university settings with respect to cancer, both ...
Our allometric analysis also indicated that one variable (wing size) tends to increase, while the other (wing shape) tends to decrease (shows a negative correlation), as has been observed in several medically and forensically important insects, e.g., Anopheles barbirostris mosquitoes [46], ...
The dipteran family Chironomidae is the most widely distributed and frequently the most abundant group of insects in freshwater, with rep resentatives in both terrestrial and marine environments. A very wide range of gradients of temperature, pH, oxygen concentration, salinity, current velocity, depth...
These neurotoxic substances act upon a wide range of insects, inducing a “knockdown effect” characterized by a loss of coordination, spasms, tremors, and paralysis2. In mosquitoes, pyrethroid exposure frequently leads to the loss of one or more legs (Supplementary Video 1)3,4,5. Non-target...
In insects, IPP has been successfully applied to the identification of species from the families Aphididae [34] and Culicidae [40] and the genera Drosophila [35,36], Anopheles [37], Glossina [41] and Culicoides [42]. An IPP-based discrimin- ation of different species has been carried ...
Mating in insects is a complex behavioural trait involving varying combinations of visual, tactile, acoustic, and olfactory signals that even in modern insects are only poorly understood. Unsurprisingly, direct evidence of behavioural traits in the fossil record is fragmentary, difficult to detect and ...
“What I know about mosquitoes is that these are insects that transmit diseases such as malaria and lymphatic filariasis.”(Female, 34 years) “Mosquitoes are found in a variety of habitats; they first lay their eggs in a wet environment, and when they learn to fly, I believe they migrate...
Britain is broken, and sadly things are going to get much worse. Indeed there is currently no clear route to a UK which is more just, more humane, and more equitable. Even the drubbing that the Labour party received at the local elections in England on 1 May do not seem to be forcin...