The Insect Telepresence project combines expertise from the robotics and human-computer interaction communities to create a robot exhibit that enables telepresence in scale. The underlying mission of this work is educational: to promote appreciation for insect life and small-scale complexity through exploration of live insect colonies. In this article we describe the robot hardware and software...

Scale insects are important ecologically and as agricultural pests. The majority of scale insect taxa feed exclusively on plant phloem sap, which is carbon rich but deficient in essential amino acids. This suggests that, as seen in the related aphids and psyllids, scale insect nutrition might also depend upon bacterial symbionts, yet very little is known about scale insect-bacteria symbioses. W...

This paper deals with the impact of the pine scale (Marchalina hellenica Gennadius, Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Margarodidae) on the insect biodiversity of pinewoods in Attica, Greece. The comparison of biodiversities was done by estimating the biodiversity by the Ewens-Caswell’s V statistic in a set of nine sites each containing two linetransects. Transects pairs went through free and infested ...

scale insect specimens collected on hordeum sp. (poaceae), dated 24. v. 2003 in khorram abad, lorestan province were identified as exaeretopus tritici williams. this species, which the genus and species is newly recorded from iran, is related to e. harpazi ben-dov, differing mainly in the number of the stigmatic setae and extension of paraopercular pores.