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Hello to everybody. My study is focused on host preference of sucking herbivorous arthropods and, in particular, how plant leaf structural traits affect the feeding choice of herbivores. The...
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I am looking to mark individual crayfish in an aquarium filled with water, but don't want to cause a change in behavior by marking them with something that they will chemically sense and react to.
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What kind of invertebrate would you suggest for monitoring (sporadic) PCB micro-contamination in a small stream (from waste dump soil leaching)? The stream bed is of fine gravel and sand, fishes...
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Can anyone suggest some papers which investigate plant feeding in primarily detritivorous species. As I understand it this question is largely unknown so any papers looking at biotic factors,...
07 July 2014 7,731 1 View
For 4 years, I have collected arthropods from Djibouti. Now I need help to identify them.
07 July 2014 9,312 78 View
They are closely related to stingless bees. The ants were frequently observed in Meliponiary.
07 July 2014 3,211 9 View
This sample came from hyporheic zones We pumped the water from piezometer in meander and we don't know it is terrestrial or aquatic. We also want to know its functional feeding group. Is it a...
07 July 2014 1,258 5 View
I'm looking for keys or descriptions to tarantulas of Mexico and North America, I have this: Smith A. 1994. Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the USA and México. Fitzgerald Publishing, London. 196...
29 May 2014 2,527 2 View
We have this spider living in our greenhouse several months. We have living plants from Kenya and South Africa. Does anyone know which kind of spider it is, and if it is potentially invasive?
05 May 2014 8,853 6 View
I am running an experiment where I must remove a brood from an ant colony and store them separately. I currently have no idea how long the brood will survive while outside the colony environment...
04 April 2014 1,042 1 View
I need to know the experimental details of how the balance chromosomes of Drosophila were made. How were the chromosome rearrangements generated and how were they selected?
04 April 2014 7,487 1 View
I am looking for the taxonomic id key for basic identification and characterization of Dipterans.
03 March 2014 5,449 6 View
I am currently doing a research proposal on the efficacy of a certain plant extracts against ova of various human arthropod parasites. During my search for an appropriate administration method for...
03 March 2014 9,615 1 View
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03 March 2014 3,712 4 View
As explained in my first question (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Diet_infer_from_faecal_pellets ) I'm uploading pictures in case someone recognizes any of the structures I can't...
08 August 2013 9,081 3 View
I'm doing a study on diet base on faecal pellets analysis and I have some pictures of arthropods prey fragments I coudn't identified. I upload one (but I have more) in case someone from the...
08 August 2013 5,173 7 View
I study host preference of herbivorous arthropods and the host-plant traits which may affect it. In particular, I work with greenhouse plants and sucking arthropod assemblages (spider mites,...
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More precisely, what are the minimal necessary conditions to create an emerging model system so that more comparative studies would be possible? Also, although I already know a few laboratories,...
06 June 2013 9,255 4 View
or other arthropods and similar organisms with much chitin?
09 September 2012 8,743 1 View
Hello Ali. I would appreciate if you could share the outline of the project on cover crops. ¿Are there publications from this project already?
01 January 1970 5,601 7 View
It is known that CDC light traps are used for the capture of insects of medical importance, but it was observed that not only capture this group of insects, also other groups of non-target...
01 January 1970 5,526 6 View
Please identify this arthropod in the photo. Also comment on its habitat, venomous nature, etc.
01 January 1970 2,563 4 View
Any one with experience on plants that attract beneficial arthropods such as lady bugs, spiders, wasps, bees.
01 January 1970 1,488 4 View