Caterpillars eaten by a kitten

A moth-eaten radius.

To cite: Khan FS, Walker AB, Pappachan JM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2013-201653 DESCRIPTION A 67-year-old right-handed man, with known renal cell carcinoma (RCC), presented to the hospital with a painful and swollen right wrist joint and severe hypercalcaemia (albumin-corrected serum calcium level of 3.6 mmol/L) with low parathyroid hormone...

Eaten alive: cannibalism is enhanced by parasites

Cannibalism is ubiquitous in nature and especially pervasive in consumers with stage-specific resource utilization in resource-limited environments. Cannibalism is thus influential in the structure and functioning of biological communities. Parasites are also pervasive in nature and, we hypothesize, might affect cannibalism since infection can alter host foraging behaviour. We investigated the ...

Whitaker's skink Cyclodina whitakeri eaten by a weasel Mustela nivalis

Universal caterpillars

For a class V of graphs, denote by a(@?) the least value of m so that for some graph II on m vertices, every GE Q occurs as a subgraph of U. In this note we obtain rather sharp bounds on u(q) when Q is the class of caterpillars on n vertices, i.e., tree with property that the vertices of degree exceeding one induce a path. Recently several of the authors have investigated graphs U(g) which are ...

Honeybee buzz attenuates plant damage by caterpillars

with mesh size of 1 mm2) were set up next to each other in the botanical garden of the University of Wuerzburg. Each tent was used for three experimental series and contained either 10 plants of the bell pepper (Capsicum annuum) with 6–15 leaves per plant, or 10 plants of the soybean (Glycine max) with 11– 30 leaves per plant (see Figure S1 in the Supplemental data available on-line with this i...