Red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) forage on the boles of living pine trees for a variety of arthropods. To assess the availability of prey under differing stand conditions, we sampled arthropods that crawled up the boles of 300 living longleaf pine trees (Pinus palustrtis) ranging in age from 20-100 years with passive traps over a l-year period. We identified, counted, ovendried, and...

Urbanization transforms undeveloped landscapes into built environments, causing changes in communities and ecological processes. Flying arthropods play important roles in these processes as pollinators, decomposers, and predators, and can be important in structuring food webs. The goal of this study was to identify associations between urbanization and the composition of communities of flying (...

the rice fields consist of diverse fauna of arthropoda because of both subterranean and aquatic ecosystems. in this research, the fauna of predator beetles including carabidae, coccinellidae, staphylinidae, malachiidae, and their population fluctuation were studied in mazandaran province during 2002-2006. a number of 13 carabid species, one staphylinid species, six coccinellid species, and two ...

Interactions between host plant resistance and biological control may be advantageous or disadvantageous for pest management. Turfgrass cultivars have rarely been tested for extrinsic resistance characteristics such as occurrence and performance of beneÞcial arthropods on plants with resistance toknownturfpests.Amongsix turfgrass cultivars tested, thebigeyedbug,Geocorisuliginosus (Say) nymphs v...

The extreme polar environment creates challenges for its resident invertebrate communities and the stress tolerance of some of these animals has been examined over many years. However, although it is well appreciated that standard air temperature records often fail to describe accurately conditions experienced at microhabitat level, few studies have explicitly set out to link field conditions e...

The few studies that have addressed past effects of climate change on species distributions have mostly focused on plants due to the rarity of historical faunal baselines. However, hyperdiverse groups like Arthropoda are vital to monitor in order to understand climate change impacts on biodiversity. This is the first investigation of ground-dwelling arthropod (GDA) assemblages along the full el...

A compilation of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Miocene amber Chiapas, southwestern Mexico is provided. total 65 new fossil records are enumerated, which three members subfamily Lyssomaninae, five Spartaeinae, and 57 Salticinae, including a record subtribe Freyina 19 tribe Dendryphantini, ten Marpissina four Dendryphantina. In addition, based on recent changes in salticid taxono...