Entomological Odyssey

Entomological Specimens

Entomological and Epidemiological Characteristics

The use of information on malaria vector behaviour in vector control is discussed in relation to the area of Southeast Asia comprising Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The major vectors in the region are Anopheles dirus, An. minimus, An. maculatus and An. sundaicus, of which An. dirus is the most important. Options for vector control and the biological features of mosquitoes, whic...

The Odyssey CAD Framework‡

As the number, and diversity, of computer aided design tools used by VLSI circuit designers continues to grow, the need for CAD frameworks increases. While a precise definition of a CAD framework is difficult to give, it is convenient to view a CAD framework as a collection of underlying facilities and services that support activities performed by CAD tool developers, CAD system integrators, an...

A personal scientific odyssey.

When I was just a little kid growing up in Philadelphia, I had heroes just like any other kid. But my real hero was old Albert Einstein himself. I liked him even more than my basketball heroes on the Philadelphia Warriors Paul Arizin, Tom Gola and of course Wilt Chamberlin. I had taken up basketball in Elementary School mainly to avoid having to pay the tough neighborhood guys bribes to take th...

New York Entomological Society

Conomyrma Forcl and all its species were considered to belong in Dorjrm?mex Santschi, until Kusnezov (1952) separated the two genera, Dorymyrmex and Conotnyrtna. He further divided Conomyrrna into two subgenera, Biconomyrma Kusnezov and Conotnyrnta. Although these subgenera subsequently were elevated to generic status by Kusnezov (1 959), Biconot?lyrtna was later synonymized with Conotnyrrna by...