This is the first record for the subfamily Psychodinae from Ecuador and a new species belonging to genus Arisemus, A. triconnectus, is described.

1 Chief of Transplant Services, Department of Surgery. Fundación Cardio-Infantil Bogotá, Colombia. 2 Gastroenterology and Hepatology Services, Department of Internal Medicine. Fundación CardioInfantil. Bogotá, Colombia 3 Chief of Gastroenterology Service, Department of Internal Medicine. Fundación Cardio-Infantil. Bogotá, Colombia 4 Chief of Hepatology Service. Department of Internal Medicine. ...

The European grapevine moth Lobesia botrana relies on a female produced sex pheromone for long-distance mate finding. Grapevine moth males compete heavily during limited time windows for females. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of host plant volatiles by grapevine moth males and whether such compounds elicit upwind oriented flights. We compared five host plant headspace ...

An evolutionary war is being played out between the bat, which uses ultrasonic calls to locate insect prey, and the moth, which uses microscale ears to listen for the approaching bat. While the highest known frequency of bat echolocation calls is 212 kHz, the upper limit of moth hearing is considered much lower. Here, we show that the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella, is capable of hearing...

In our paper (Liebhold et al. 2000) we reviewed the literature on the dynamics of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L.) populations in North America. This paper highlighted a previously developed hypothesis, namely that gypsy moth outbreaks are caused by decreased rates of predation by small mammal predators as a result of diminished predator populations following years of low mast production by...

This study focused on conservation biological control of pear psylla, Cacopsylla pyricola, in the Pacific Northwest, USA. We hypothesized that insecticides applied against the primary insect pest, codling moth Cydia pomonella, negatively impact natural enemies of pear psylla, thus causing outbreaks of this secondary pest. Hence, the objective of this study was to understand how codling moth man...

Abstract Two of the Antarctic pack ice seals, Ross, Ommatophoca rossii , and leopard, Hydrurga leptonyx, are extremely difficult to study via traditional visual survey techniques, yet ideal for an acoustic as they highly vociferous produce array underwater sounds during austral summer. To determine their occurrence in ice, we use calls, detected within 680 recordings made between 1999 2009 part...