Ricardo Castro-Torres

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Is there any evidence of chemoreception in pupae?

Does anyone know if there's any evidence of pupae being able to sense chemical cues from the environment, etc? Or to produce chemical signals? I'm mainly interested in Lepidoptera, but any other...

28 October 2015 2,527 4 View

Is there any entomological collection that includes pupal exuviae of Lepidoptera?

I would like to analyse the external morphology of lepidopterous pupae. Is there any collection, especially in the Americas, of pupal exuviae? Thank you.

28 October 2015 1,103 15 View

Must insects be alive when fixing them for Transmission Electron Microscopy?

We want to characterise the ultrastructure of some glands in Lepidoptera using TEM (we would like to observe the cell types, tubules, etc), but our insects are seasonal, with only one generation...

02 May 2015 6,856 12 View