The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact different methods wheat cultivation on occurrence Carabidae (Coleoptera, Carabidae). collection carried out during a three-year period from 2016 2018, research areas in Borovce, which belong Research Institute Plant Production (VÚRV) Piešťany. epigeic material done five variants: V1: mulching technique; V2: conventional V3: minimization V4: no-ti...

Background Few studies of edge effects on wildlife objectively identify habitat edges or explore non-linear responses. In this paper, we build on ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) research that has begun to address these domains by using triangulation wombling to identify boundaries in beetle community structure and composition at the edges of forest patches with residential developments. W...

Tiger beetles are fast diurnal predators capable of chasing prey under closed-loop visual guidance. We investigated this control system using statistical analyses of high-speed digital recordings of beetles chasing a moving prey dummy in a laboratory arena. Correlation analyses reveal that the beetle uses a proportional control law in which the angular position of the prey relative to the beetl...

The present paper is the result of a study of the Buprestid beetles received from Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, and which were collected on his journey through the eastern part of Siberia during July and August, 1923. The material of this family collected by Professor Cockerell and his associates consists of 11 species, 2 of which are described as new. All of the species collected belong to the typ...

One of the leitmotifs of the ecophysiological research on ectotherms is the variation and evolution of thermal reaction norms for biological rates. This long-standing issue is crucial both for our understanding of life-history diversification and for predicting the phenology of economically important species. A number of properties of the organism's thermal phenotype have been identified as pot...