Combining a biotin-enrichment protocol and 454GS-FLX titanium pyrosequencing technology, we characterised 22 polymorphic microsatellite loci from the parasitic wasp, Habrobracon hebetor (Say) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), a cosmopolitan species commonly used in biological control against a wide range of both major lepidopterous pests of stored products and fi eld crops in different parts of the wo...

Forensic entomology (FE) is increasingly gaining international recognition. In Germany, however, the development of FE has been stagnating, mainly because of the lack of cooperation between police, forensic medicine and entomology. In 1997 a co-operative research project 'Forensic Entomology' was started in Frankfurt/Main at the Center of Legal Medicine and the Research Institute Senckenberg. T...

Bees essentially are wasps that turned to pollen for dietary protein. A combination of distinctive features, taken together, make bees unique among insects. (i) Sociality, characterized by overlapping generations, cooperative brood care and a reproductive division of labor between fertile queens and sterile female workers, has evolved multiple times within the bee lineage. Presumptive intermedi...

1 Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, 5230 Wapato, WA, USA 2 Entomology and Nematology Department, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA 3 Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory, Washington State University, Richland, WA, USA 4 Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA 5 Wes...

Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 1680 Madison Avenue, Wooster, OH 44691, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, 2101 Constant Ave, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 607 Reserve Street, Hot Springs, AR, 71902, USA Department ...

1. This document is ENY-058 (NG047), one of a series of the Entomology & Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. First published: January 2008. Reviewed March 2011. For more publications related to horticulture/agriculture, please visit the EDIS Website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/. 2. Romy Krueger, gradua...

1 Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2 United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Research Unit, Gainesville, FL, USA 3 Agronomy Department, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA 4 United States Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Res...