HE first seven generations of a selection experiment designed to allow exTperimental evaluation of a restricted selection index were reported by OKADA and HARDIN (1967). The index was computed to produce maximum response in 14-day larval weight of Tribolium castaneum while preventing a correlated increase in 30-day adult weight. Not only was the index effective for restricting the change of 30-...

Oxyporus (Oxyporus) kunmingius sp. nov. is described from Yunnan, China. Color images of the habitus and aedeagus of the new species are included. A key to the genus Oxyporus of Yunnan species is provided.

Sitophilus oryzae (L.), S. granarius (L.), Tribolium castaneum (Hbst.), Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), Tenebroides mauritanicus (L.), and Cryptolestes pusillus (Schon.) transmitted Salmonella montevideo from wheat contaminated with 10(6) organisms/g to clean wheat. The insects were fed on the contaminated grain for 21 days and were then transferred to clean grain and...

Feedback from community interactions involving mutualisms are a rarely explored mechanism for generating complex population dynamics. We examined the effects of two linked mutualisms on the population dynamics of a beetle that exhibits outbreak dynamics. One mutualism involves an obligate association between the bark beetle, Dendroctonus frontalis and two mycangial fungi. The second mutualism i...

In the dry Swiss Rhone Valley, Scots pine forests have experienced increased mortality in recent years. It has commonly been assumed that drought events and bark beetles fostered the decline, however, whether bark beetle outbreaks increased in recent years and whether they can be linked to drought stress or increasing temperature has never been studied. In our study, we correlated time series o...

Bark beetles, fuels and future fire hazard in contrasting conifer forests of Greater Yellowstone" (2013). ABSTRACT The extent and severity of bark beetle (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) epidemics and the frequency of large, severe fires have reached unprecedented levels in recent decades, and these trends are expected to continue with ongoing climate change. Insects and fire have tremendous ecologi...