Objective The aim of the study is to determine the biological characteristics of Dioryctria abietella (Denis et Schiffermuller) on Picea likiangensis var. linzhiensis trees in Linzhi area, and ...provide a scientific basis for the control of this insect.Method From March 2015 to August 2016, the life history, morphological characteristics and habits of D. abietella were studied by field survey and laboratory observation.Result The results showed that the generation of D. abietella in Linzhi area occurred one generation a year. The larvae damaged the cone fruit shaft, seed scales and seeds of P. likiangensis var. linzhiensis, and the larvae overwintered in the cones, with the phenomenon diapause and no transfer hazard. The adult emergence started in the middle of June and continued until early August. The adult stage was 5 to 8 days, the egg stage was 9 to14 days, the larval stage was about 10.5 months and the pupal stage was 25~36 days.Conclusion D. abietella attacked the P. likiangensis var. linzhiensis
Mather makes a convincing case for octopus sentience based on a lot of evidence of their complex learning capabilities. It should follow from Mather's findings that these intelligent invertebrates ...are worthy of welfare considerations, just as vertebrate species with similar capabilities are. I provide a complementary environment-behavior analysis of how we might understand the world of the octopus more straightforwardly, borrowing from Mather's examples, to show how to promote opportunities for complex learning and species-typical behaviors in the octopus.
New Irish bat mite records Dool, Serena E.; Orlova, Maria V.; Teeling, Emma C.
Irish naturalists' journal,
06/2018, Letnik:
36, Številka:
1
Journal Article
A rapidly growing interdisciplinary field, disease ecology merges key ideas from ecology, medicine, genetics, immunology, and epidemiology to study how hosts and pathogens interact in populations, ...communities, and entire ecosystems.
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