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Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...
02 March 2021 2,196 2 View
This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.
23 February 2021 6,255 11 View
How to extract a single-stranded DNA from a double-stranded DNA sample isolated from stem borer(rice affecting insect)? As I need to amplify ss Dna using a COX-1 marker having primer sequence as...
23 January 2021 3,661 3 View
Currently, in order to identify insect eggs in stored or processed products (such as contaminated flour or wafer samples), staining was performed based on the method mentioned in the below...
16 January 2021 6,687 5 View
Is it a type of Ambush bug or what? Thanks
15 January 2021 9,633 3 View
Could someone help me identify the insect in this picture?
01 January 2021 2,337 5 View
01 January 2021 5,768 10 View
Hi everybody , I hope all is well. I've got a question Could you suggest me some suitable pesticides for insect larvae in spirulina farm? Thanks
31 December 2020 2,546 7 View
Any references Previous works
15 December 2020 9,943 3 View
I would like to know if there is a database of photos with insect pollinators on flowers. The insects must be located on flowers of plants. I am interested in pollinators encountered in Europe,...
05 November 2020 2,499 6 View
At the museum we are currently dismissing Paradichlorobenzene and Naphtalene. we are looking for other effective chemical or similar.
22 October 2020 9,765 11 View
Could anyone suggest any online sources (databases, dedicated websites, etc.) on insect morphometric characteristics, please? I'm particularly interested in insect mouthparts and tarsi...
05 October 2020 9,847 5 View
In late 19th and early 20th centuries, many species of ants (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) had been described from Bogor (Buitenzorg), Indonesia. I want to know any other insect and other...
27 August 2020 866 4 View
Hi, I would like to use ToxTrac to help me with my hornet's videos. I did 600 experiments in an olfactometer to follow the behavior of hornets. They are pretty "big" but ToxTarc never detected...
24 August 2020 8,978 4 View
Hi everyone. Just out of curiosity. I am using High Five insect cell as the protein expression system. Cells are resuspended in 50mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.4), 200mM NaCl, 5% glycerol. After cell...
10 July 2020 6,971 6 View
The image was taken on June 21, 2020 in Hungary. To my knowledge, Brimstones mate in the spring after overwintering, not in the summer after they emerge from their pupae, but these two specimens...
29 June 2020 978 4 View
Does insect such as flies and mosquitoes transmit the COVID-19 virus as a mechanical transmission? Virus transmission take place by insect legs, mouth parts and other body parts.
16 June 2020 6,215 98 View
Dear Taxonomist This is Satish Harde from Jalna Maharashtra India, i want to know what is the method to draw the sketch of mealybug or any insect as shown in the attached file. Thanks with...
29 March 2020 5,280 3 View
We have been using thinner to remove the insect specimens from sticky traps. However, we would like to use other solvents with no toxic effects.
16 March 2020 7,037 12 View
I want to remove whole soft tissues and maintain intact the exoeskeleton
11 March 2020 4,624 6 View
Hi everyone, I am a Ph.D. student and work in the field of parasitology. I regularly use molecular techniques and would like to approach phylogenetic trees. More specifically, recently, I have...
09 March 2020 9,800 9 View
Hi friends The following table shows insect species from 3 orders. In conflicting sources, they are introduced from different families (family 1, family 2 and family 3). What do you think about...
03 March 2020 5,359 3 View
I want to perform a solid state fermentation of freeze dried grasshopper and I'd like to know which fungi can be used to hydrolyze the protein from this insect. Thanks in advance!!
28 February 2020 4,859 3 View
I am looking for good methods to describe the internal morphology of hymenoptera larvae stages. If you know a related technique or protocol, I would appreciate if you indicate it.
23 February 2020 1,583 3 View