Comparison of the incidence of sibling cannibalism between male-killing...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Key words. Sibling cannibalism, Coccinellidae...Harmonia axyridis, male-killing...incidence of sibling cannibalism in clutches of Harmonia axyridis infected...incidence of sibling cannibalism in clutches of Harmonia axyridis infected...

The aphidophagous predator Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)...

European Journal of Entomology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Key words. Harmonia axyridis, invasive ladybirds, native ladybirds...several hundreds of thousands of H. axyridis adults were released at various cultivations...releases, in order to determine if H. axyridis overwintered in the field. No presence...

Trophic egg provisioning in a passalid beetle (Coleoptera)

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......food for offspring or to reduce sibling cannibalism (Crespi, 1992), although the evolutionary...evolution of trophic eggs may have been sibling cannibalism of viable and those that fail to...1997), and passalids (see below). Sibling cannibalism of inviable (and viable) eggs occurs...

Mother spider lets offspring to eat her

The Boston Globe;  July 31, 1995 ;     81 words ......themselves to prevent cannibalism among their young. "This is, apparently, an effort by the mother to prevent sibling cannibalism. The longer the babies can feast on their mother's carcass, the less likely they will turn on one another...

A vermetid gastropod with complex intracapsular cannibalism of nurse eggs...

Pacific Science;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......development involves an unusual complex adelphophagy (sibling cannibalism). Most eggs are nondeveloping nurse eggs. Ten to 20 eggs...capsules. Here we describe this unusual form of adelphophagy (sibling cannibalism), which involves intracapsular feeding on both nurse eggs...

Kin recognition and avoidance of kin cannibalism by the larvae of...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......normally indulge in non-sibling egg cannibalism rather than sibling cannibalism (Mills, 1982; Osawa, 1992). Third instar larvae of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) avoided eating relatives and preferentially...two Nearctic ladybirds (Michaud, 2003). Avoidance of sibling cannibalism could be ...

Sex, births and sibling cannibalism... It's how reality TV should be! In...

Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......webcams captured barn owls eating their smaller siblings because there wasn't enough food to go round. "People were watching sibling cannibalism. You just can't write that sort of script, it was just something that happened and an example of nature doing its thing...

The multicolored Asian ladybeetle Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera:...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......multicolored Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis, Coccinella septempunctata, Propylea...multicolored Asian ladybeetle, Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae), was first...aphidophagous species, three invasive (H. axyridis, Coccinella septempunctata and Propylea...

Attraction of multicolored Asian lady beetles, Harmonia axyridis, to...

The Ohio Journal of Science;  March 1, 2003 ;     284 words ...2:30 The multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, is a non-native beneficial insect in agriculture, which has become an increasingly widespread nuisance in the continental United...

Bugged wines.(AGRICULTURE)(Harmonic axyridis)(Brief article)

Science News;  May 5, 2007 ;     243 words ......upcoming Vitis, researchers at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, report finding that just 200 to 400 ladybugs (Harmonic axyridis) per metric ton of harvested grapes can foul a batch of wine. Depending on the bugs' methoxypyrazine output, an infestation...

Intraguild predation between the aphidophagous ladybird beetles Harmonia...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Key words. Harmonia axyridis, Coccinella undecimpunctata, intraguild...stages of the aphidophagous Harmonia axyridis Pallas and Coccinella undecimpunctata...affecting the magnitude of IGP. H. axyridis was more often the predator than C...

The effect of prey availability on ovarian development and oosorption in...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Key words. Asymmetry, Harmonia axyridis, Coccinellidae, energy storage, oosorption...Abstract. The ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis Pallas was investigated under laboratory...development and oosorption in predatory H. axyridis were much faster compared with those...

Effects of larval diet on female reproductive output of the European...

European Journal of Entomology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......cannibalism, Coccinellidae, Harmonia axyridis, intraguild predation, invasive species...the diet provided to larvae of Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) and Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus...in clutches or ovariole number in H. axyridis or A. bipunctata. However, some variation...

The link between food and reproduction in aphidophagous predators: a case...

European Journal of Entomology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......reproduction by the ladybird, Harmonia axyridis Pallas. This polyphagous predator feeds...weevils and/or sugar water, females of H. axyridis laid eggs in large numbers only on the...contribute to the reduced egg production of H. axyridis females that feed on weevils versus aphids...

I'm lucky I'm not a starfish and starved of mum's love

New Straits Times;  May 14, 2006 ;     700+ words ......eaglets pecks the other to death so that the stronger one will have all the food. I could also have been the victim of sibling cannibalism if I had been born a frog. Of course, given a choice between a frog and an eagle, I would have opted for the latter. If...