POPULAR AND PRACTICAL ENTOMOLOGY: Beetles Injurious To Sunflowers In Manitoba

Sunflowers in Lattices

A Sunflower is a subset S of a lattice, with the property that the meet of any two elements in S coincides with the meet of all of S. The Sunflower Lemma of Erdös and Rado [2] asserts that a set of size at least 1 + k!(t − 1)k of elements of rank k in a Boolean Lattice contains a sunflower of size t. We develop counterparts of the Sunflower Lemma for distributive lattices, graphic matroids, and...

The use of carrion beetles in forensic entomology: life cycle of two species of Silphids

Introduction to Comparative Entomology

INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE ENTOMOLOGY. By Richard M. Fox and Jean Walker Fox. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1964. xiv, 450 pp. $9.50. This textbook of entomology is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature in the field of comparative invertebrate zoology. Comparison of insects, myriapods, and arachnoids as animals is emphasized-a feature seldom given attention in introductor...

Exploitation of Flagship Species of Scarabaeid Beetles with Application of Analyzed Results on Cultural Entomology

For successful conservation of diverse insects, it is important to study the current attitude and interest of the general public toward diverse insects from the aspect of cultural entomology. The popularity of different scarabaeid species in Japanese society was therefore investigated. Popularity was assessed by the Google search volume for scarabaeid species names in katakana script, using the...

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...