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Effects of temperature and light cycle on the development of Aphelinus nigritus (Howard) in the Southern Great Plains
(2022-12)
The Southern Plains of North America are a humid subtropical region. Drastic temperature changes are common, but multivoltine insects must adapt to allow their offspring to survive. In agricultural crops it is important ...
Response of Silphidae to burned carcasses and use for breeding by burying beetles and flies
(2022-05)
When an animal dies, the resources in its body are used by a range of organisms including bacteria, fungi, invertebrate and vertebrate necrophores. Among these organisms, burying beetles in the Genus Nicrophorus are ...
Establishing age-based color changes for the American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus (Olivier)
(2022-12)
The American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus (Olivier) is the largest North American species of carrion beetle (Silphidae). Due to prey loss and 90% reduction in historic range is federally listed as threatened at ...