Empty Gonometa postica cocoons function as nest sites and shelters for arboreal ants
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Impaction of the rumen in cattle due to the ingestion of the cocoons of the Molopo caterpillar Gonometa postica (Walker).
Fig. 1 Gonometa postica: Moth, opened and entire cocoon. from rumen impaction in the North-Western Cape. Similar losses, reported by Edwards I from the Northern Transvaal in 1935, were caused by cocoons of the moth Gonometa rufubrennea. A related moth of the same genus, Gonometa postica (Walker) (fig. 1) occurs in the North-Western Cape, namely north of an imaginary line drawn from Mafeking to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Arid Environments
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0140-1963
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.03.013