This demonstration introduces Caterpillar, an open-source Business Process Management System (BPMS) that runs on top of the Ethereum blockchain. Like any BPMS, Caterpillar supports the creation of instances of a process model (captured in the Business Process Model and Notation – BPMN) and allows users to track the state of process instances and to execute tasks thereof. The specificity of Cate...

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) synthesizes crystalline inclusions that are toxic to caterpillars (Lepidoptera) and other orders of invertebrates. Materials associated with 37 caterpillars from 16 species, collected while feeding on 15 different species of host plants in dry, cloud and rain forests located in the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, were examined for the pres...

Alternative ways to control caterpillar pests and reduce the use of pesticides in apple orchards are in the interest of the environment, farmers and the public. Great tits have already been shown to reduce damage under high caterpillar density when breeding in nest boxes in an experimental apple orchard. We tested whether this reduction also occurs under practical conditions of Integrated Pest ...

A general field bioassay for detecting biologically active compounds in plants and insects has been developed and tested for efficacy and sensitivity. Methanolic extracts, in sucrose solution, of 20 plant and six caterpillar species were offered to the ponerine ant Paraponera clavata and the feeding preferences observed. The bioassay resulted in the detection of nine plant and three caterpillar...

A general field bioassay for detecting biologically active compounds in plants and insects has been developed and tested for efficacy and sensitivity. Methanolic extracts, in sucrose solution, of 20 plant and six caterpillar species were offered to the ponerine ant Paraponera clavata and the feeding preferences observed. The bioassay resulted in the detection of nine plant and three caterpillar...

Let p′ and q′ be points in R. Write p′ ∼ q′ if p′ − q′ is a multiple of (1, . . . , 1). Two different points p and q in R/ ∼ uniquely determine a tropical line L(p, q) passing through them and stable under small perturbations. This line is a balanced unrooted semi–labeled tree on n leaves. It is also a metric graph. If some representatives p′ and q′ of p and q are the first and second columns o...

Current robots spaces bifurcating blood vessels and Various machines navigation wheeled, caterpillar, wall and even snake also many caterpillar exploration Although devices lack adapting confinement. D to be con collapsed buildings, industrial and marine pipelines A relative invert of confinement. exploiting waves of muscular contractions that alternatively shorten and lengthen different portio...

Tropical peri-urban ecosystems are essential for the urban population’s well-being through goods and services they provide. Unfortunately, these subjected to anthropogenic pressures various reasons. This study aims assess diversity structure of that provide most edible insects in Kinshasa. A total 360 people were interviewed identify two insect species frequently consumed. The tree inventory wa...

BACKGROUND The caterpillar of the moth Premolis semirufa (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), commonly named Pararama, is endemic of the Amazon basin. Accidental contact with these caterpillar bristles causes local symptoms such as intense heat, pain, edema and itching which last for three to seven days; however, after multiples contacts, it may induce joint-space narrowing and bone alteration, as well as...

The cyclic population dynamics of western tent caterpillars, Malacosoma californicum pluviale, are associated with epizootics of a nucleopolyhedrovirus, McplNPV. Given the dynamic fluctuations in host abundance and levels of viral infection, host resistance and virus virulence might be expected to change during different phases of the cycle. As a first step in determining if McplNPV virulence a...