Blister Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Meloidae) by Richard B. Selander, Thomas R. Fasulo

“… The family Meloidae, blister beetles, contains about 2500 species, divided among 80 genera and three subfamilies. …”
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Rainbow scarab Phaneaus vindex Macleay (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) by Thomson Paris, Barukh Rohde, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…The genus Phanaeus MacLeay is distributed primarily in Neotropical habitats with 100 species, but also in the Neartic region with nine species and the West Indies with one. …”
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Tawny Crazy Ant by Stephanie K. Hill, Rebecca W. Baldwin, Roberto M. Pereira, Philip G. Koehler

“…The tawny crazy ant is considered a series pest. This species infests buildings and greenhouses, attacks crops, domestic animals, honeybee hives, displaces native ant species, and disrupts electrical equipment. …”
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Pentastomid Infections in Fish by Roy Yanong

“… Pentastomes are worm-like parasites that infect various fish species, such as tilapia, danios, flagfish, and swordtails. …”
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Cultural Guidelines for Commercial Production of Interiorscape Hedera by Jianjun Chen, Dennis B. McConnell, Kelly C. Everitt

“…It is suggested that the potential invasiveness of this species be noted at the retail level and that buyers be advised to only use this plant where it cannot become a nuisance. …”
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Critical steps and troubleshooting in sample preparation for wood and phloem formation: from sampling to microscopic observation by Angela Balzano, Katarina Čufar, Luka Krže, Maks Merela

“…We also present optimal images to accurately identify different cell development stages in phloem and xylem, which is particularly challenging in hardwoods and Mediterranean tree and shrub species. …”
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Exophiala Pneumonia Presenting with a Cough Productive of Black Sputum by Yehuda Z. Cohen, Wendy Stead

“…Exophiala species are black, yeast-like molds that can cause subcutaneous cysts as well as disseminated disease. …”
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Northern Red-Oak Kermes, Kermes Scale (suggested common names), Allokermes kingii (Cockerell) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Kermesidae) by Jay Cee Turner, Eileen Buss

“… In North America there are 32 species of Kermesidae in five genera, but in northeastern North America there are only nine species in four genera (Eriokermes, Nanokermes, Allokermes, and Kermes). …”
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Contribution to the knowledge of the distribution of the rare orchid Epipogium aphyllum Swartz in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Srđan Brujić

“…This mycoheterotrophic orchid belongs to one of the rarest and least known species of orchids in the world. The paper gives a brief description of the ecology of the species, a description of the habitat conditions in the site area, and an overview of the previous records for Bosnia and Herzegovina. …”
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New records of Epallage fatime (Charpentier, 1840) in Macedonia (Odonata: Euphaeidae) by Matjaž Bedjanič, Damjan Vinko

“…At all localities, the species’ development has been confirmed. Its currently known distribution in Macedonia and the neighbouring countries is presented and a short zoogeographical discussion provided. …”
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Yellow Garden Spider, Writing Spider Argiope aurantia (Lucas) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) by Taryn B. Griffith, Jennifer Lynn Gillett-Kaufman

“…The yellow garden spider is a very common species and has captured many gardener’s attention due to their zig zag web, striking black and white pattern, and relatively large size. …”
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Grass Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne graminis Whitehead, 1968 (Nematode: Tylenchida: Meloidogynidae) by William T. Crow

“…   Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are the most important plant-parasitic nematodes worldwide, with most temperate and tropical crops suffering yield losses from one or more species of Meloidogyne. Root-knot nematodes are the most widely recognized plant-parasitic nematodes because the characteristic galls or knots they cause on plant roots are easily observed symptoms for diagnosis. …”
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Néotène, Hybrides et Chimères by Marika Moisseeff

“…In the West, the idea of man as a creature made by God in His own image has progressively given way to a biological conception that locates humanity’s specific place and ontology between those pertaining to two distinct species: the primates that preceded humans in the course of phylogenesis, and the species that will descend from them, such as the transgenic or chimerical entities that biotechnology should allow them to create. …”
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Dynamic Behaviors of a General Discrete Nonautonomous System of Plankton Allelopathy with Delays by Yaoping Chen, Fengde Chen, Zhong Li

“…Next, by constructing a suitable Lyapunov functional, we obtain a set of sufficient conditions which guarantee the global attractivity of the two species. After that, by constructing an extinction-type Lyapunov functional, we show that under some suitable assumptions, one species will be driven to extinction. …”
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Convergent Lady Beetle Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville (Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) by Luis F. Aristizábal, Steven P. Arthurs

“… The convergent lady beetle, Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville, is among the most common lady beetle species throughout North America and is an important natural enemy of aphids, scales, thrips, and other soft-bodied insects. …”
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Smutgrass Control in Perennial Grass Pastures by Brent Sellers, Jason A. Ferrell, Neha Rana

“…A 2003 survey found that smutgrass was second only to tropical soda apple as the most problematic weed species in Florida pastures, but now that practices to control tropical soda apple have been widely adopted in Florida, smutgrass is likely the most problematic weed species in Florida pastures today. …”
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Swirski mite (suggested common name) Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot (Arachnida: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) by Mahmut Doğramaci, Garima Kakkar, Vivek Kumar, Jianjun Chen, Steven Arthurs

“…Amblyseius is a beneficial predatory mite endemic to the Eastern Mediterranean region. This species is considered a generalist predator, and readily consumes small soft-bodied pest species as well as pollen or plant exudates. …”
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Swirski mite (suggested common name) Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot (Arachnida: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) by Mahmut Doğramaci, Garima Kakkar, Vivek Kumar, Jianjun Chen, Steven Arthurs

“…Amblyseius is a beneficial predatory mite endemic to the Eastern Mediterranean region. This species is considered a generalist predator, and readily consumes small soft-bodied pest species as well as pollen or plant exudates. …”
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Coconut mite, Acathrix trymatus (Keifer) by W. C. Welbourn

“…Keifer's generic name, Acathrix, means "short seta" for the minute scapular setae on the prodorsal sclerite of this species (Keifer 1962b). Briones (1963) investigated A. trymatus and three other eriophyid species on Philippine coconut palms and found their feeding did little damage and did not transmit cadang-cadang disease. …”
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Native and Nonnative Crocodilians of Florida by Michiko A. Squires, Seth C. Farris, Brian M. Jeffery, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…Florida has two native species of crocodilians, the American alligator and the American crocodile. …”
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