The Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica (Linnaeus 1771), plays an important role in both pollination and diversity in anthropogenic environments, yet is often consi[...]

Noncrop habitats are key components for maintaining arthropod diversity within agricultural settings, yet studies in perennial fruit crops often overlook the local spatia[...]

Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), accounting for most animal-mediated pollination, are declining globally due to factors such as pesticides and land use change. While working [...]

Understanding how arthropod communities are structured and how environmental stressors such as farming management practices act as ecological filters in this process is e[...]

The maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais, is an economically important pest of stored grains causing significant losses. This study explored key ecological factors, including[...]

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is a feeding/eating disorder characterized by food avoidance leading to undernutrition, growth failure/weight loss, reli[...]

Genome stability refers to the ability of an organism’s DNA to maintain its structure and function over time. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that is important[...]

Flower thrips (Frankliniella tritici Fitch) is a key pest in southeastern U.S. blueberry production systems, particularly during the flowering period when injury to flora[...]

Beetles are the most diverse group of life on Earth. However numerous organizational problems remain in describing such a large radiation of life. Small, cryptic, drably [...]

Aminopeptidase N (APN) is a specific receptor of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins. Characterization of the APN produced in insect midgut and functional studies are essen[...]

The Asian needle ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) has become a well-established invasive species in natural habitats and suburban environments. The objectives of this thesis[...]

Insect symbioses with heritable bacteria have been pivotal in facilitating the use of nutrient-poor plant sap as a primary food source, with bacterial partners supplying [...]

Drought occurs naturally due to variability in rainfall, but the frequency and severity of drought is increasing in many regions due to climate change (Trenberth et al., [...]

Kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) are obligately and exclusively hematophagous insects. Vertebrate blood is thought to be deficient in B vitamins, essential nutrients [...]

This study aimed to investigate the role of centipedegrass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) as a pollen resource for bees and to explore bee foraging behaviors in centipedegrass [...]

Gaining a greater understanding of how aquatic invertebrates are environmentally controlled has proven challenging. Batzer (2013) examined invertebrate ecology in freshwa[...]

Restaurant sites in Athens Georgia were surveyed for filth fly populations at dumpsters and inside kitchens. Flies from the family Calliphoridae (Lucilia, Cochliomyia and[...]

Cry4Ba toxin derived from Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) is highly toxic to larval stages of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti, a vector for disease causi[...]

The effects of pine pollen supplementation on reproduction in Frankliniella occidentalis (western flower thrips) and F. fusca (tobacco thrips) were investigated. For the [...]

The serpentine leafminer, Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is a key pest in protected cultivation of ornamentals and vegetables. L. trifolii is the pri[...]

Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a site-specific decision-making process that includes accountability (record-keeping) aimed at sustainable reductions in pest damage. [...]

Bait surveys were undertaken in the summers of 2016 and 2017 for ants on the primary dunes of three Georgian barrier islands. Species diversity was higher than expected,[...]

Termite populations vary in vigor (Lenz and Williams, 1980). This is a problem in laboratory trials when termites from weak populations decline in vigor or die before a [...]

Floral farmscaping is the planting of flowering plants in proximity of target crops in order to attract and enhance the populations, fitness, and biological control effic[...]

The insect immune system consists of two broadly overlapping subsystems. The humoral system consists of germline encoded factors present in the hemolymph, while the cellu[...]