What Is the Economic Benefit of a Citrus Health Management Area (CHMA)? A Case Study by Ariel Singerman, Brandon Page

“… A Citrus Health Management Area (CHMA) is a group of growers who work cooperatively to coordinate insecticide application timing and mode of action in order control the insect vector of citrus greening disease. CHMAs help prevent insect vectors from moving between groves and reduce the likelihood that insects will develop pesticide resistance. …”
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Redbay Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Rajinder Mann, Jiri Hulcr, Jorge E. Peña, Lukasz Stelinski

“…Ambrosia beetles are wood-degrading insects that live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…They are conspicuous insects, since the males are territorial and will butt or grapple with intruders including other males. …”
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Florida Predatory Stink Bug (unofficial common name), Euthyrhynchus floridanus (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) by Frank W. Mead, David B. Richman

“… The predatory stink bug, Euthyrhynchus floridanus (Linnaeus), is considered a beneficial insect because most of its prey consists of plant-damaging bugs, beetles, and caterpillars. …”
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Professional Disease Management Guide for Ornamental Plants by Philip F. Harmon, S. D. Bledsoe

“…Florida’s warm, humid environment is a gardener’s paradise and a great location for ornamental plant producers to grow numerous plant species—but these conditions also are suitable for the development of a wide variety of plant pathogens and insects that can spread them. Florida is also a major port of entry for the international trade of ornamental plants, which carries the risk of introducing exotic invasive pathogens, so growers are required to follow certain phytosanitory regulations. …”
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Plant and Pest Diagnosis and Identification through DDIS by Jiannong Xin, Lyle J. Buss, Carrie Lapaire Harmon, Pete Vergot, Marc S. Frank, William J. Lester

“…Extension county faculty, state specialists, and faculty of the UF/IFAS Office of Information Technology developed the Distance Diagnostic and Identification System (DDIS), which allows users to submit digital images obtained in the field or after delivery to a local Extension office for rapid diagnosis and identification of pest insects, weeds, diseases, and animals. This 4-page document discusses typical DDIS hardware and camera, the DDIS process, sample types, user roles, DDIS for Extension clientele, and DDIS Mobile. …”
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Ground Pearls, Earth Pearls, Pearl Scale, Margarodes spp. (Insecta: Hemiptera: Margarodidae) by Anthony Camerino

“… Ground pearls are a primitive subterrestrial relative of the widely recognized above ground armored scale insect (family Diaspididae). While retaining well-developed fossorial legs with numerous setae (which scale insects do not have), ground pearls do not possess the ability to secrete scales similar to their scale relatives (Beardsley and Gonzalez). …”
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What Is the Economic Benefit of a Citrus Health Management Area (CHMA)? A Case Study by Ariel Singerman, Brandon Page

“… A Citrus Health Management Area (CHMA) is a group of growers who work cooperatively to coordinate insecticide application timing and mode of action in order control the insect vector of citrus greening disease. CHMAs help prevent insect vectors from moving between groves and reduce the likelihood that insects will develop pesticide resistance. …”
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Asymmetric-bifurcation snapping, all-or-none motion of Venus flytrap by Xiangli Zeng, Yingzhe Wang, Keisuke Morishima

“…Abstract The Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant that catches insects by snapping rapidly and reopening slowly. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…They are conspicuous insects, since the males are territorial and will butt or grapple with intruders including other males. …”
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THE EFFECT OF HOST PLANT REPLACEMENT ON THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE KRASNODAR GREENBUG <i> SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM </i> RONDANI (HOMOPTERA, APHIDIDAE) POPULATION by E. E. Radchenko, T. L. Kuznetsova

“…During the reproduction of the insect on barley plants, the individuals without “redundant” genes of virulence to sorghum had an advantage in competition. …”
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Does Consumers' Awareness Impact Their Purchase Likelihood of Neonic-Free Plants? by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia L. Rihn

“… Neonicotinoid (neonic) pesticides have been facing intense scrutiny because of their potential role in pollinator insect population declines. Research has shown that insecticide use in general has resulted in $284 million per year in damages to honeybee and pollinator services in the United States. …”
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Coleopteran Antimicrobial Peptides: Prospects for Clinical Applications by Monde Ntwasa, Akira Goto, Shoichiro Kurata

“…Although coleopterans comprise the largest and most diverse order of eukaryotes and occupy an earlier branch than Drosophila in the holometabolous lineage of insects, their immune system has not been studied extensively. …”
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Reniscymnus gen. nov., a new genus of Scymnini (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) from the Oriental region by Feng Peng, Mingjie Tang, Xingmin Wang, Xiaosheng Chen

“…Ladybird beetles (Coleoptera, Coccinellidae) are a species-rich, ecologically diverse and economically important group of insects. A new ladybird genus of Scymnini, Reniscymnus gen. nov., is described from China and Laos, along with two new species, Reniscymnus cordatus Peng &amp;amp; Chen, sp. nov. and Reniscymnus explanatus Peng &amp;amp; Chen, sp. nov. …”
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Bacterial Stigmergy: An Organising Principle of Multicellular Collective Behaviours of Bacteria by Erin S. Gloag, Lynne Turnbull, Cynthia B. Whitchurch

“…This is true for relatively “simple” entities such as microbial communities and robot “swarms,” through to more complex self-organised systems such as those displayed by social insects, migrating herds, and many human activities. …”
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Review and Phylogenetic Evaluation of Associations between Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) and Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Menno Reemer

“…(4) Are Microdontinae associated with other insects? A total number of 109 associations between the groups are evaluated, relating to 43 species of Microdontinae belonging to 14 genera, and to at least 69 species of ants belonging to 24 genera and five subfamilies. …”
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Gust Mitigation of Micro Air Vehicles Using Passive Articulated Wings by Adetunji Oduyela, Nathan Slegers

“…Birds and insects naturally use passive flexing of their wings to augment their stability in uncertain aerodynamic environments. …”
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Development of Microbiology Plantation-Based Multimodal Segmentation for Smart Garden Using Machine Learning by S. Prasath, Ramkumar Govindaraj, Ram Subbiah, Sulaiman Ali Alharbi, Hesham S. Almoallim, S. Priya, Begna Dejene Mulugeta

“…These trees are well adapted to the environment and require less maintenance. Many insects and birds rely on native trees for food and shelter. …”
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Deterministic and stochastic effects drive the gut microbial diversity in cucurbit-feeding fruit flies (Diptera, Tephritidae). by Wouter Hendrycks, Nele Mullens, Jackline Bakengesa, Sija Kabota, Jenipher Tairo, Thierry Backeljau, Ramadhani Majubwa, Maulid Mwatawala, Marc De Meyer, Massimiliano Virgilio

“…Insect diversity is closely linked to the evolution of phytophagy, with most phytophagous insects showing a strong degree of specialisation for specific host plants. …”
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An Early Oligocene Fossil Lagerstätten from the Lacustrine Deposits of the Luberon UNESCO Global Geopark by Pauline Coster, Stephane Legal

“…The fossils include plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals from ancient lacustrine-terrestrial ecosystems of the early Oligocene. …”
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