I report on the attraction of the white pine cone beetle, Conophthoru.s coniperda (Schwarz) (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), to traps baited with the host monoterpene limonene in western North Carolina. Both (+)- and (-)-limonene attracted male and female cone beetles to Japanese beetle traps in an eastern white pine, Pinus strobus L., seed orchard near Murphy, NC. Catches of cone beetles were directl...

Predator species identification is an important step in understanding predator-prey interactions, but predator identifications using kill site observations are often unreliable. We used molecular tools to analyse predator saliva, scat and hair from caribou calf kills in Newfoundland, Canada to identify the predator species, individual and sex. We sampled DNA from 32 carcasses using cotton swabs...

Cannibalistic and asymmetrical behavioral interactions between stages are common within stage-structured predator populations. Such direct interactions between predator stages can result in density- and trait-mediated indirect interactions between a predator and its prey. A set of structured predator-prey models is used to explore how such indirect interactions affect the dynamics and structure...

larvae of dicrodiplosis manihoti harris (dip., cecidomyiidae) are the predator of mealybug ovisacs (hem.: pseudococcidae) in fars province, iran. parasitized larvae of this predator were collected from nipaecoccus viridis (newstead) on citrus sinensis (l.) and reared in the laboratory. parasitoid wasps belonging to the family torymidae were consequently collected, and identified as pseudotorymu...

In mutual intraguild predation (IGP), the role of individual guild members is strongly context dependent and, during ontogeny, can shift from an intraguild (IG) prey to a food competitor or to an IG predator. Consequently, recognition of an offspring's predator is more complex for IG than classic prey females. Thus, IG prey females should be able to modulate their oviposition decisions by integ...

Abstract The purpose of this study was to identify the species composition coleopterous predators and their occurrence in different parts stem depending on health condition Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris L.) collapsing foci bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). research carried out 2019–2021 at 38 sample plots located five State Forestry Enterprises Sumy region (Ukraine). All are...

The dynamics of an impulsively controlled three-species food chain system with the BeddingtonDeAngelis functional response are investigated using the Floquet theory and a comparison method. In the system, three species are prey, mid-predator, and top-predator. Under an integrated control strategy in sense of biological and chemical controls, the condition for extinction of the prey and the mid-...

A ratio-dependent predator–prey model with stage structure for the predator and time delay due to the gestation of the predator is investigated. By analyzing the characteristic equations, the local stability of a positive equilibrium and a boundary equilibrium is discussed, respectively. Further, it is proved that the system undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at the positive equilibrium when s = s0. ...

Pink muhly grass Muhlenbergia capillaris (Lamark) Trinius is a perennial, tussock-forming that native to North and Central America. The reddish-purple coloration of the spikes this species has resulted in becoming popular as an ornamental plant around world. Interestingly, very few insects have been reported be associated with grass. I therefore examined arthropod assemblages on M. two urban pa...