Inside insects from North America

Bacterial menageries inside insects.

B display a wide diversity of specialized interactions with eukaryotic hosts. A common way to classify bacterial– eukaryote associations is along an axis from pathogenic to mutualistic: that is, how much does the infection help or hurt the host relative to noninfected individuals? From the host perspective, this distinction is central. But for the bacteria themselves, pathogenesis and symbiosis...

Millennium Development Goals: update from North America.

To cite: PeacockChambers E, Silverstein M. Arch Dis Child 2015;100 (Suppl 1):s74–s75. In the past 15 years, North America made significant advances towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets despite a crippling and global financial crisis beginning in 2008. The three countries making up North America—Canada, the USA and Mexico—aspired to reach MDGs under strikingly different politica...

Emergent insects, pathogens and drought shape changing patterns in oak decline in North America and Europe

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 ...

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America Third Edition

Fire and insects in northern and boreal forest ecosystems of North America.

Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed fire for insect pest control, and effects of fire on insect diversity from northern and boreal forests in North Ameri...