New Tertiary insects

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

Tertiary Storage: An Evaluation of New Applications

Tertiary Storage: An Evaluation of New Applications

Superior vision in nocturnal insects inspires new night vision technologies

At night—because of the paucity of light—human visual capacities are severely reduced, with a complete loss of the ability to see color and a dramatic loss in the ability to see fine spatial and temporal details. However, this is not the case for many nocturnal animals (e.g., insects). Nocturnal animals typically have highly sensitive eye designs and visual neural circuitry that is optimized fo...

The First New Zealand Insects Collected on Cook's Endeavour Voyage!

The Banks collection of 40 insect species, described by J. C. Fabricius in 1775, is critically examined to explore the possible methods of collection and to document changes to the insect fauna and to the original collection localities since 1769. The assemblage of species is regarded as unu sual. It includes insects that are large and colorful as well as those that are small and cryptic ; some...

Vectors, routes and maps: new discoveries about navigation in insects.

More than a decade ago, social insects were thought by some to possess a cognitive map that allowed them to move along novel pathways between points in the environment. Subsequent experimentation, however , has established that insects navigate using vectors, snapshots and landmark-based routes, and do not use cognitive maps. Two recent papers have reported the investigation of the mechanisms t...