• Insect ecology is the interaction of insects, individually or as a community, with the surrounding environment or ecosystem. Insects play significant roles...
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    Insect winter ecology describes the overwinter survival strategies of insects, which are in many respects more similar to those of plants than to many...
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    2010s, reports emerged about the widespread decline in insect populations across multiple insect orders. The reported severity shocked many observers,...
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    Cranston 2005, pp. 65–68. Chown, S. L.; Nicholson, S. W. (2004). Insect Physiological Ecology. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-851549-4. Richard...
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    Eusociality (redirect from Eusocial insect)
    partitioning of social insects Crespi, Bernard J.; Yanega, Douglas (1995). "The Definition of Eusociality". Behavioral Ecology. 6: 109–115. doi:10.1093/beheco/6...
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    Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described...
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    Entomophily or insect pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen of plants, especially but not only of flowering plants, is distributed by insects. Flowers...
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    G.W. (2003). "Insect herbivory increases litter quality and decomposition: an extension of the acceleration hypothesis". in: Ecology 84:2867-2876. Hagen...
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  • chains Ecology can also be classified on the basis of: the primary kinds of organism under study, e.g. animal ecology, plant ecology, insect ecology; the...
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    by the male gametes from the pollen grains. Insects are the major pollinators of most plants, and insect pollinators include all families of bees and...
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    E.; Boomsma, J. J. (2008). "Social insect symbionts: evolution in homeostatic fortresses" (PDF). Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 23 (12): 672–677. doi:10...
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    of beneficial fire ecology effects on the plant, including increases in leaf and flower production and in genetic diversity. Insects that eat the plant...
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  • prey’s phenotype in real time. Insects portal Arthropods portal Insect ecology Antipredator adaptation Behavioral ecology Gillott, C. (1995). Entomology...
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    Nectar (category Insect ecology)
    agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects feed on nectar. For example, a number of predacious or parasitoid wasps...
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    Pollination syndrome (category Insect ecology)
    there are also examples of ambophilous flowers which are both wind and insect pollinated. Anemophilous, or wind pollinated flowers, are usually small...
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    with estimates of the rate of climate change in general. Insect ecology Population ecology Pesticide resistance Insecticide Pest control Meyer, John...
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    Cis-3-Hexenal (category Insect ecology)
    plants and it acts as an attractant to many predatory insects. It is also a pheromone in many insect species. cis-3-hexen-1-ol has a similar but weaker odor...
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    Frass (category Insect ecology)
    A Dictionary of Ecology. Oxford Paperback Reference. Speight, Martin R., Mark D. Hunter and Allan D. Watt (1999). Ecology of Insects: concepts and applications...
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    of Odonata Insect ecology Insect flight Invertebrate Insect Entomology Prehistoric insect Gullan, P.J.; P.S. Cranston (2005). The Insects: An Outline...
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    Phasmatodea (redirect from Stick insect)
    flightless stick insects" (PDF). Ecology. 99 (6): 1504–1506. doi:10.1002/ecy.2230. ISSN 0012-9658. PMID 29809279. S2CID 46920315. "Stick Insect: Phasmida"....
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    Ant colony (category Insect ecology)
    Retrieved 19 March 2015. Claybourne, A. (2013). A Colony of Ants: and Other Insect Groups. Oxford, UK: Raintree Publishers. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4062-5563-8....
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  • phytophagous insects, and pollinators). The chemical ecology of plant-insect interaction is a significant subfield of chemical ecology. In particular...
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    Insectivore (redirect from Insect predator)
    animal or plant that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which can also refer to the human practice of eating insects. The first vertebrate...
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    down: progressive and irreversible impacts of silica on insect herbivores". Journal of Animal Ecology. 78 (1): 281–291. Bibcode:2009JAnEc..78..281M. doi:10...
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    1146/annurev.ento.43.1.271. PMID 15012391. Ward, J. V. 1992. Aquatic Insect Ecology: biology and habitat. Wiley, New York. P. 456. Watson, D. J.; Balon...
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    Ant–fungus mutualism (category Insect ecology)
    synthesis: the chemistry of partner choice in insect-microbe mutualisms". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 40 (2): 99. doi:10.1007/s10886-014-0382-8. PMID 24496604...
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  • The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE, branded as icipe) is an international scientific research institute, headquartered in...
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    Butterfly (category Insects in culture)
    2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015. Timothy Duane Schowalter (2011). Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach. Academic Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-12-381351-0...
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    Gyne (redirect from Queen (insect))
    Greek γυνή, "woman") is the primary reproductive female caste of social insects (especially ants, wasps, and bees of order Hymenoptera, as well as termites)...
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    Trophallaxis (category Insect ecology)
    birds, gray wolves, vampire bats, and is most highly developed in eusocial insects such as ants, wasps, bees, and termites. Tropho- (prefix or suffix) is...
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