Curculio glandium is one of the pre-dispersal seed predators occurring in Central Europe. It associated with Quercus robur, acorns which are shelter and food sources for developing larvae. Females species, to our knowledge, lacking marking pheromones or do not use them; therefore, nature, multiple infestations (over 10 eggs larvae) same host fruit can be found. Such density provoke very strong ...

Abstract Elongated rostra (snouts) are remarkable features of many female weevils. The Curculio glandium uses the snout to excavate channels in acorns oviposit. Considering slenderness rostrum, excavation solid substrates without buckling is a challenging task from both engineering and biological points view. Here we aimed examine roles material properties morphology rostrum its resistance. We ...

Mosquito species of the Aedes (Stegomyia) scutellaris (Walker) group (Diptera: Culicidae) are distributed across many islands of the South Pacific and include major regional vectors of filariasis, such as Aedes polynesiensis (Marks). Analysis of populations of Ae. polynesiensis at the extremes of its range, from Fiji and from Moorea, French Polynesia, using the rDNA ITS2 (internal transcribed s...