The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), is an invasive pest in America, Europe and Asia causes serious economic loss to crops, nuisance problems during overwintering. Uninvaded southern hemisphere countries, such as New Zealand Australia, see increase H. border interceptions the northern populations’ overwintering period large aggregations of can settle...

Puparia from diapausing pupae of the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis are lined with twice as much hydrocarbon as puparia from nondiapausing pupae (J. A. Yoder, D. L. Denlinger, M. W. Dennis and P. E. Kolattukudy, unpublished observations). The additional hydrocarbon favors water conservation during diapause by reducing water loss, enhancing water vapor absorptivity and elevating the critical ...

In this study we addressed a question of whether experimental manipulations that increase life span also reduce physical activity and molecular oxidative damage. We used three phenotypes of male and female Pyrrhocoris apterus that survive for different lengths of time, diapausing insects, reproductive insects and insects from which the corpus allatum, the source of juvenile hormone, was surgica...

Seasonal variations in the supercooling point, survival at low temperatures and sugar content were studied in fieldcollected codling moth larvae. The supercooling point of field-collected larvae decreased significantly from a mean value of –13.4°C in August 2004 (feeding larvae) to –22.0°C in December 2004 (overwintering larvae). Survival at –20°C/24 h was 0% during early autumn, whereas it inc...

The remarkable control of insect growth by the hormone ecdyson is readily apparent in the events that transform a diapausing Cecropia pupa into a developing adult moth. The pupal diapause, as shown by Williams,' is a state of developmental arrest enforced by the failure of the insect's endocrine system to supply the hormonal stimulus required for growth and development. In essence, what the ind...

The invertebrate communities of the northern Chilean rivers are characterised by their marked endemism andspecificity of their community structure in different basins. The river systems located in the Atacama Desert are endorheicand are affected by the rainy period of January-February commonly known as the “Bolivian winter“. The present study isthe first report on the observations of arthropods...