Yves Braet

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Ticks and dead animal: how long the first will be fixed on the second?

I am searching an advice on how long a tick could be find always sticked (not moving on freely) on an animal after its dead? I think that this is depending of the age of the tick, and the volume...

26 June 2019 1,291 9 View

Hi All, Did you have some Ichneumonoidea and especially some Braconidae specimens?

Happy New year 2018 with a lot of discoveries!!

30 December 2017 5,951 0 View

How may I know the number of Lysine on the surface of the Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor?

Soybean Trypsin Inhibitor (SBTI) has a total of 9 Lysines in its sequence. I would like to label SBTI and need to optimize the reaction. But where/how may I find the information about the number...

15 September 2017 6,510 1 View

How can I stain the mass (inside their bodies) the larva of necrophagous diptera (like Calliphora vicina)?

I ask that because all the protocols I found on the web doesn't work. Based on what I found, and using young larva developping at least 5 days on their foods, I have tested some food colorings...

16 February 2015 296 16 View

What could be the interest to include some parasitoid species (like some Hymenoptera Braconidae) into the Redlist of IUCN?

Threatened insects are not so common and nearly none of them are parasitoids. But some of the parasitoids species could probably also be considered as threatened because their high specialization...

31 July 2014 2,821 13 View

What is the best and easiest method to classify known hairs (references) and to find the closest references for an unknown hair sample?

We have a poolof hairs (around 10 for each reference sample coming from one individual) representing 15 individuals (e.g.). We can characterize each of them by microscopy for several...

10 June 2014 10,093 3 View

Where can I find data about the pupa (2-3 days old) and developmental data of various diptera (mainly the forensic ones)?

I am looking for information about the length, width (in mm and measured following the maximum length), and weigth (in mg) of pupa for as many species as possible of Diptera (mainly the forensic...

10 January 2013 1,889 15 View