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Any references about insects or animals that can damage or weathering of rock or fossil material?

Are there any references to insects or animals that can cause damage or weathering to the rock or fossil material? books or paper that would be nice. Thank you very much!

25 February 2021 7,110 3 View

Planting seedlings in pots in greenhouse or in experimental plots under natural conditions? What's advisable?

We have to study the root anatomy of almost 480 plants, 80 plants after every 2 months for 1 year. Kindly suggest whether should we plant the seedlings in pot in greenhouse or in experimental...

14 February 2021 749 9 View

Has anyone also problems with FBS Contamination?

Dear community, We found contaminations in various batches FBS from one supplier/manufacturer. Different working groups with very different cells and conditions found bacteria in fresh thawed...

03 February 2021 7,854 4 View

Has anybody gotten blue WGA to work for tracing sensory neurons?

I am doing patch electrophysiology on sensory neurons labeled with WGA. I have purchased 405S and 405M WGA from Biotium, the only company I've seen that sells it. We dilute 1mg with 100ul of 1%...

28 January 2021 1,739 0 View

Do you know non-feeding larval instars in insects?

Hi, I am looking for information about insects having a larval instar that does not feed at all. In other words, able to molt to the next instar without acquiring any nutrient. Does anyone know...

21 January 2021 9,653 19 View

Triggering feeding of beetles / how to make them hungry?

Hey, I am working with Psylliodes chrysocephala feeding on oilseed rape. In feeding trials I often have the problem that a huge portion of the beetles do not feed at all. In clip cages I observed...

20 January 2021 10,189 6 View

Which sampling techniques can be used for huge flying insects?

Tropidacris collaris is a grasshopper. Adults, which can reach more than 15 of length, are strong flyers and actually they resemble small birds or bats. Most of the time T. collaris is found in...

14 January 2021 3,989 5 View

What are the best methods for clearning and mounting old Insects?

Could anyone suggest appropriate methods for positioning of legs, wings and antennae of dry Beetles. Methods for cleaning of their body as well. Insects are small in size about 2mm. I will be...

28 December 2020 2,766 7 View

What do you suggest me as a low-cost electronic monitoring of honeybees using 3-5mg RFID tags?

We would like to control the honeybees' ID at the entrance of a flight tunnel. We would like to detect a honeybee in a cube of 10x10x10 cm3 in front of the tunnel door while flying, and thus...

18 December 2020 3,682 2 View

How to proceed with the wet impregnation of Cu-Fe on alumina pellets ?

I am trying to impregnate 10wt%Cu-10 wt%Fe on alumina pellets (1/8" in diameter, Alfa Aesar). The procedure I am following right now is mixing the alumina pellets and metal nitrate solutions...

10 December 2020 9,255 8 View

LIFE in SMART CITIES: Animal data versus Human data, complementarity or not?

One observation is that in any city (those I know) you have humans, of course, but you also have many animals. Statistics of humans start with population data (for instance demographics) and...

09 November 2020 4,371 6 View

What are the quantitative ways to measure strategic implementation for the success of e-commerce?

I've already read the research work of Molla & Licker, 2001 and DeLone & McLean, 2004, however, their studies provide qualitative analysis. I'm looking for a correlational analysis between...

09 November 2020 1,691 1 View

Does Arsenophonus replace the other gut bacteria in insects?

I am working on the gut bacterial diversity of thrips and I sequence 16S V3-V4 regions of one species of thrips with the larvae pupae and adult life stages.To my surprise, I have 99-100 %...

03 November 2020 4,871 4 View

RNA integrity with agarose gel?

Hi everyone, I just recently did some RNA extraction for my insects sample for RNA-seq. I have checked both the concentration (average 450ng/uL) and 260/280( ~2.0). I also done a agarose gel run...

22 October 2020 1,859 3 View

Does anyone know papers that use large databases of abundance of different groups of species?

I´m looking for papers showing raw abundance data for different groups of animals, plants, and bacteria. I would be interested in studies on: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, insects, fishes,...

04 October 2020 2,754 4 View

Is there a good way to do insect bioinventories without capturing and killing insects?

Dear entomologist colleagues, just wanted to find out if any of you have ever conducted and published on insect bioinventories without collecting insects? Is it defensible to do catch, ID and...

30 September 2020 7,873 16 View

Insects as food and feed?

Using insects as food and feed have been increasing globally. It is an important source of protein in poultry species. My question is that which insect is preferably used as a protein source in...

29 September 2020 1,789 18 View

Can anyone help me understand how to adjust my SAS glm analysis to include a random effect for site?

I am not great with statistics so please be understanding. I have 17 pollinator sites that I collected data from and am comparing the effect of habitat type (2 classes) on several different...

25 September 2020 3,401 5 View

What could be the best age for transplanted rice seedlings to inoculate with Blast?

What could be the best age for transplanted rice seedlings to inoculate with Blast? Seedlings were ten days older during transplanting, and plants are in Greenhouse. In the literature, I found...

22 September 2020 782 3 View

Dear Entomologists is there any identification key for the Berytidae of Greece, Turkey or Europe or checklists of the greek and turkish Berytidae?

I can't find anywhere even information about the Berytidae of Greece and I have a specimen that I want to ID... The Berytidae family is new (as far as I know of course) for Lesvos island. Thanks...

18 September 2020 5,386 4 View

Insecticide resistance without selection pressure, if possible?

What could be possible reasons for insecticide resistance among insects from areas which have very little exposure of insecticides or there is no selection pressure and the areas are rich in...

08 September 2020 1,586 15 View

Is there any identification key available for the identification of the origin of plant damages?

I am slowly putting together a very basic identification key of plant damages, to determine first if the source of the damage is living or not, and then what did it: bacteria, fungi, insects,...

06 September 2020 6,817 9 View

What is the best method to find a specific gender in Heteropteran insects?

I found an Hereoptera male and looking for its female in the field. Is there a specific method to lure and capture true bug females through keeping its male in the trap? What is the cue for luring...

24 August 2020 4,509 3 View

How do land manager deal with scorched trees following wildfire in your country?

Numerous variables can be applied for post-fire tree mortality and crown damage is one of the best predictors of post-fire tree mortality. Nevertheless, most of the crown scorched trees (even 10%)...

24 August 2020 6,907 8 View

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