Militarism and soldiering are materialized by gendered imaginaries enabled through physical emotional labor within military households. Soldier households in Pakistan rarely nuclear, the is filtered structures of rurality, postcoloniality, localized manifestations patriarchy. This article draws upon interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation villages institutions to examine rel...

In the polyembryonic wasp Copidosoma floridanum, females commonly lay one male and one female egg in a lepidopteran host. Both sexes proliferate clonally within the growing host larva. Distinct larval castes develop from each wasp egg, the majority being 'reproductives' plus some 'soldiers' which sacrifice reproduction and attack competitors. Maturing mixed sex broods are usually female biased,...

Social insects are characterized by the development of castes in which some colony members reproduce whereas others function as altruistic helpers. The conditional switch controlling caste formation usually involves environmental stimuli that act on processes that regulate development of individuals. Unlike other social species, embryos of polyembryonic wasps develop clonally to produce large n...

THE CRAB, Mictyris longicarpus Latreille 1806, belongs to the brachyuran family Micryridae Dana 1856. According to McNeill (1926) the species ranges northward from southern New South Wales and from Perth, Western Australia, to New Caledonia in the east, to Singapore in the north, and to the Bay of Bengal in the west. In Australia Mictyris is known as the "soldier crab." This appellation is appr...

A new species of termite, Macuxitermes colombicus Postle & Scheffrahn is described from soldiers and workers collected from Departamento Magdalena, Colombia. The soldier of Macuxitermes colombicus differs from its lone congener in having no protuberances on the head capsule.

An atrial aneurysm gave rise to incessant atrial tachycardia in a 21 year old Seychellian soldier. This arrhythmia was suppressed by intravenous adenosine triphosphate and ajmaline. Resection of the aneurysm abolished the arrhythmia and re-established sinus rhythm.

Incisitermes nishimurai is described from soldiers and winged imagos collected in the highlands of Honduras. It is distinguished from all other Incisitermes species by the dark rugosity of the soldier frons and by the rather large, uniformly very dark, imago.