A study was made of the oviposit behavior of gravid female Aedes mosquitos in man-made habitats under field conditions. The study showed that the gravid female Aedes mosquitos preferred containers with relatively easy access but not too open to external environmental influence. The dark surface of the containers served as the initial and long-range attractant to the breeding sites. Volatile che...

Introduction: Ultra wideband target identification is very useful in a number of applications such as military, security control, biomedical and internet of things. Intelligent fridges will become an important component of internet of things to improve quality of life. Monitoring the number of eggs in a fridge would be one application of this. As it can be known, RFID techniques can be applied ...

Mating order can have important consequences for the fertilization success of males whose ejaculates compete to fertilize a clutch of eggs. Despite an excellent body of literature on mating-order effects in many animals, they have rarely been considered in marine free-spawning invertebrates, where both sexes release gametes into the water column. In this study, we show that in such organisms, m...