The Insects

Aquatic Insects: Hemimetabolous Insects – Plecoptera

Diversity and Abundance of Insects in Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria

A field survey was conducted in Wukari, Taraba State to assess the diversity and abundance of insect species in selected habitats (residential, open field made up of grassland and an agroecosystem). Sampling were done biweekly using light, pitfall and yellow pan traps set in 3 replicates, 30 m apart. Insects recovered were wet preserved in 70% ethanol except butterflies and moths. Representativ...

The Insects Infesting Pinus Andnothofagus

The distribution ofliving and fossil Nothofagus in the southern hemisphere (Skottsberg 1949) suggests the possibility that it once played a part in colonising primitive and unstable soils comparable with that played by Pinus in the northern hemisphere. Each genus includes species which colonise rocky soils of mountain ranges and glacial, alluvial and volcanic deposits; each genus is, or has bee...

Flying Insects from the Rectum

Sir,?With reference to the letter of Babu A. C. De, L.m.s., in the Indian Medical Gazette of August last, and that of Babu S. C. Sen, l.m.s., in the current issue, I feel myself interested to inform you of my experience, which may help to take further steps in the matter. In the month of November, 1916, I found three cases here?one Bengali Babu (named Jadunath Sirkar, Hoolarhat P. O., Bakerganj...

The microRNA toolkit of insects

Is there a correlation between miRNA diversity and levels of organismic complexity? Exhibiting extraordinary levels of morphological and developmental complexity, insects are the most diverse animal class on earth. Their evolutionary success was in particular shaped by the innovation of holometabolan metamorphosis in endopterygotes. Previously, miRNA evolution had been linked to morphological c...