Items where Subject is "Insect culture and beneficial insects"

2025

Xia, E., Keir, M., Tarlinton, B., Hauxwell, C., Buchmann, G., Lim, J., Chapman, N. and Gloag, R. (2025) Queen turnover, nest usurpation and colony mortality in wild nests of the stingless bees Tetragonula carbonaria and Tetragonula hockingsi (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Austral Entomology, 64 (3). e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.70014

2023

Menzel, C. M. (2023) Fruit set is moderately dependent on insect pollinators in strawberry and is limited by the availability of pollen under natural open conditions. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology, 98 (6). pp. 685-714. https://doi.org/10.1080/14620316.2023.2212670

2022

Allen-Perkins, A., Magrach, A., Dainese, M., Garibaldi, L. A., Kleijn, D., Rader, R., Reilly, J. R., Winfree, R., Lundin, O., McGrady, C. M., Brittain, C., Biddinger, D. J., Artz, D. R., Elle, E., Hoffman, G., Ellis, J. D., Daniels, J., Gibbs, J., Campbell, J. W., Brokaw, J., Wilson, J. K., Mason, K., Ward, K. L., Gundersen, K. B., Bobiwash, K., Gut, L., Rowe, L. M., Boyle, N. K., Williams, N. M., Joshi, N. K., Rothwell, N., Gillespie, R. L., Isaacs, R., Fleischer, S. J., Peterson, S. S., Rao, S., Pitts-Singer, T. L., Fijen, T., Boreux, V., Rundlöf, M., Viana, B. F., Klein, A.-M., Smith, H. G., Bommarco, R., Carvalheiro, L. G., Ricketts, T. H., Ghazoul, J., Krishnan, S., Benjamin, F. E., Loureiro, J., Castro, S., Raine, N. E., de Groot, G. A., Horgan, F. G., Hipólito, J., Smagghe, G., Meeus, I., Eeraerts, M., Potts, S. G., Kremen, C., García, D., Miñarro, M., Crowder, D. W., Pisanty, G., Mandelik, Y., Vereecken, N. J., Leclercq, N., Weekers, T., Lindstrom, S. A. M., Stanley, D. A., Zaragoza-Trello, C., Nicholson, C. C., Scheper, J., Rad, C., Marks, E. A. N., Mota, L., Danforth, B., Park, M., Bezerra, A. D. M., Freitas, B. M., Mallinger, R. E., da Silva, F. O., Willcox, B., Ramos, D. L., da Silva e Silva, F. D., Lázaro, A., Alomar, D., González-Estévez, M. A., Taki, H., Cariveau, D. P., Garratt, M. P. D., Nabaes Jodar, D. N., Stewart, R. I. A., Ariza, D., Pisman, M., Lichtenberg, E. M., Schüepp, C., Herzog, F., Entling, M. H., Dupont, Y. L., Michener, C. D., Daily, G. C., Ehrlich, P. R., Burns, K. L. W., Vilà, M., Robson, A., Howlett, B., Blechschmidt, L., Jauker, F., Schwarzbach, F., Nesper, M., Diekötter, T., Wolters, V., Castro, H., Gaspar, H., Nault, B. A., Badenhausser, I., Petersen, J. D., Tscharntke, T., Bretagnolle, V., Chan, D. S. W., Chacoff, N., Andersson, G. K. S., Jha, S., Colville, J. F., Veldtman, R., Coutinho, J., Bianchi, F. J. J. A., Sutter, L., Albrecht, M., Jeanneret, P., Zou, Y., Averill, A. L., Saez, A., Sciligo, A. R., Vergara, C. H., Bloom, E. H., Oeller, E., Badano, E. I., Loeb, G. M., Grab, H., Ekroos, J., Gagic, V., Cunningham, S. A., Aström, J., Cavigliasso, P., Trillo, A., Classen, A., Mauchline, A. L., Montero-Castaño, A., Wilby, A., Woodcock, B. A., Sidhu, C. S., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Vogiatzakis, I. N., Herrera, J. M., Otieno, M., Gikungu, M. W., Cusser, S. J., Nauss, T., Nilsson, L., Knapp, J., Ortega-Marcos, J. J., González, J. A., Osborne, J. L., Blanche, R., Shaw, R. F., Hevia, V., Stout, J., Arthur, A. D., Blochtein, B., Szentgyorgyi, H., Li, J., Mayfield, M. M., Woyciechowski, M., Nunes-Silva, P., de Oliveira, R. H., Henry, S., Simmons, B. I., Dalsgaard, B., Hansen, K., Sritongchuay, T., O'Reilly, A. D., García, F. J. C., Parra, G. N., Pigozo, C. M. and Bartomeus, I. (2022) CropPol: a dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination. Ecology, 103 (3). e3614. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3614

Haigh, W., Hassan, B. and Hayes, R. A. (2022) West Indian drywood termite, Cryptotermes brevis , in Australia: current understanding, ongoing issues, and future needs. Australian Forestry, 85 (4). pp. 211-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049158.2022.2156361

Shah, S., Ash, G. J. and Wilson, B. A. L. (2022) Resporulation of Calcium Alginate Encapsulated Metarhizium anisopliae on Metham-Fumigated Soil and Infectivity on Larvae of Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Fungi, 8 (10). p. 1114. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8101114

Souza, N. M., Wang, T., Suwansa-ard, S., Nahrung, H. F. and Cummins, S. F. (2022) Ovi-protective mothers: exploring the proteomic profile of weevil (Gonipterus) egg capsules. Heliyon, 8 (9). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e10516

Starkie, M. L., Cameron, S.L., Krosch, M.N., Phillips, M. J., Royer, J. E., Schutze, M. K., Strutt, F., Sweet, A.D., Zalucki, M.P. and Clarke, A.R. (2022) A comprehensive phylogeny helps clarify the evolutionary history of host breadth and lure response in the Australian Dacini fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 172 . p. 107481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107481

Volp, T. M., Cernusak, L. A. and Lach, L. (2022) Epiphytic ant-plant obtains nitrogen from both native and invasive ant inhabitants. Biotropica, 54 (3). pp. 556-560. https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13104

Zawawi, N., Zhang, J., Hungerford, N. L., S. A. Yates, H., Webber, D. C., Farrell, M., Tinggi, U., Bhandari, B. and Fletcher, M. T. (2022) Unique physicochemical properties and rare reducing sugar trehalulose mandate new international regulation for stingless bee honey. Food Chemistry . p. 131566. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.131566

2021

Alagappan, S., Chaliha, M., Sultanbawa, Y., Fuller, S. C., Hoffman, L.  C., Netzel, G., Weber, N., Rychlik, M., Cozzolino, D., Smyth, H.  E. and Olarte Mantilla, S.  M. (2021) Nutritional analysis, volatile composition, antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of Australian green ants (Oecophylla smaragdina). Future Foods, 3 . p. 100007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fufo.2020.100007

Blasi, M., Bartomeus, I., Bommarco, R., Gagic, V., Garratt, M., Holzschuh, A., Kleijn, D., Lindström, S. A. M., Olsson, P., Polce, C., Potts, S. G., Rundlöf, M., Scheper, J., Smith, H. G., Steffan‐Dewenter, I. and Clough, Y. (2021) Evaluating predictive performance of statistical models explaining wild bee abundance in a mass‐flowering crop. Ecography, 44 (4). pp. 525-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05308

van Steenderen, C. J. M., Paterson, I. D., Edwards, S. and Day, M. D. (2021) Addressing the red flags in cochineal identification: the use of molecular techniques to identify cochineal insects that are used as biological control agents for invasive alien cacti. Biological Control, 152 . p. 104426. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2020.104426

2020

Boston, W., Leemon, D. and Cunningham, J. P. (2020) Virulence Screen of Beauveria Bassiana Isolates for Australian Carpophilus (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) Beetle Biocontrol. Agronomy, 10 (8). p. 1207. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10081207

Krosch, M. N., Strutt, F., Blacket, M. J., Batovska, J., Starkie, M. L., Clarke, A. R., Cameron, S. L. and Schutze, M. K. (2020) Development of internal COI primers to improve and extend barcoding of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini). Insect Science, 27 (1). pp. 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12612

Li, H., Ren, L., Xie, M., Gao, Y., He, M., Hassan, B., Lu, Y. and Cheng, D. (2020) Egg-Surface Bacteria Are Indirectly Associated with Oviposition Aversion in Bactrocera dorsalis. Current Biology, 30 (22). 4432-4440.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.080

2019

Chowdhury, S. A., Anuj, S. R., Carter, J. F., Hungerford, N. L., Webber, D. C., Sultanbawa, Y. and Fletcher, M. T. (2019) A New Method for the Authentication of Australian Honey. Proceedings, 36 (1). p. 112. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036112

Hanssen, B. L., Park, S. J., Royer, J. E., Jamie, J. F., Taylor, P. W. and Jamie, I. M. (2019) Systematic Modification of Zingerone Reveals Structural Requirements for Attraction of Jarvis’s Fruit Fly. Scientific Reports, 9 (1). p. 19332. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55778-4

Hayes, R. A., Amos, B. A., Rice, S. J., Baker, D. K. and Leemon, D. M. (2019) Behavioural responses of the small hive beetle to volatile components of fermenting honeybee hive products. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 167 (9). pp. 784-793. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12819

Hungerford, N. L., Tan, B. L. L., Tinggi, U., Zawawi, N., Farrell, M., Tsai, H. H., Hnatko, D., Swann, L. J., Kelly, C. L., R. Anuj, S., Webber, D. C., Were, S. T. and Fletcher, M. T. (2019) Analysis of Environmental Contaminants in Australian Honey and Comparison to Stingless Bee Honey from Queensland and Malaysia. Proceedings, 36 (1). p. 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036101

Silva, L. F. P., Brown, G. W. and James, P. J. (2019) Nutritional Value of Black Soldier Fly Grown on Abattoir Waste. Proceedings, 36 (1). p. 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036216

Volp, T. M. and Lach, L. (2019) An Epiphytic Ant-Plant Mutualism Structures Arboreal Ant Communities. Environmental Entomology, 48 (5). pp. 1056-1062. https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz083

Wang, J., Mound, L. and Tree, D. J. (2019) A new species of Apostlethrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripidae); an Australian genus from grass tussocks. Zootaxa, 4688 (1). p. 3. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4688.1.9

Wijeweera, N., Dhileepan, K. and De Silva, M. P. K. S. K. (2019) Survey on the distribution of Milkweed, Calotropis gigantea L. (Apocynaceae) in Sri Lanka and the associated insect diversity. In: 6th Ruhuna International Science & Technology Conference, 30 January 2019, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka.

2018

Hancock, D. L. and Royer, J. E. (2018) The first record of eupyrgota coquillett (diptera: Pyrgotidae) from Australia. Australian Entomologist, 45 . pp. 7-10.

Wee, S.-L., Peek, T. and Clarke, A. R. (2018) The responsiveness of Bactrocera jarvisi (Diptera: Tephritidae) to two naturally occurring phenylbutaonids, zingerone and raspberry ketone. Journal of Insect Physiology, 109 . pp. 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2018.06.004

2017

Nelson, L. J. and Grzywacz, A. (2017) Passeromyia indecora causes hematophagous myiasis in captive-bred domestic pigeon (Columba livia domestica) squabs. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 60 . pp. 172-173. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2017.2017-03

Senior, L. J., Missenden, B. and Wright, C. L. (2017) Comparative Efficacy of Insecticides on Bactrocera tryoni and Zeugodacus cucumis (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Laboratory and Semifield Trials in Fruiting Vegetables. Journal of Economic Entomology, 110 (4). pp. 1619-1629. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox109

2016

Jones, P.K., Holtkamp, R.H. and Day, M.D. (2016) The host range of four new biotypes of Dactylopius tomentosus (Hemiptera: Dactylopiidae) from southern USA and their potential as biological control agents of Cylindropuntiaspp.(Cactaceae) in Australia: Part II. Biocontrol Science and Technology . pp. 1-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2016.1182620

Royer, J. E., Wright, C. L. and Hancock, D. L. (2016) Bactrocera frauenfeldi (Diptera: Tephritidae), an invasive fruit fly in Australia that may have reached the extent of its spread due to environmental variables. Austral Entomology, 55 (1). pp. 100-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12155

2015

Bende, N. S., Dziemborowicz, S., Herzig, V., Ramanujam, V., Brown, G. W., Bosmans, F., Nicholson, G. M., King, G. F. and Mobli, M. (2015) The insecticidal spider toxin SFI1 is a knottin peptide that blocks the pore of insect voltage-gated sodium channels via a large β-hairpin loop. FEBS Journal, 282 (5). p. 904. https://doi.org/10.1111/febs.13189

2014

McNaught, M. K., Wylie, F. R., Harris, E. J., Alston, C. L., Burwell, C. J. and Jennings, C. (2014) Effect of Broadcast Baiting on Abundance Patterns of Red Imported Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and Key Local Ant Genera at Long-Term Monitoring Sites in Brisbane, Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology, 107 (4). p. 1307. https://doi.org/10.1603/EC14008

Mound, L. A. and Tree, D. J. (2014) Fungus-feeding phlaeothripine Thysanoptera in the genus Holothrips from Australia and New Caledonia, with a structurally similar new genus, Holoengythrips. Zootaxa, 3860 (2). p. 125. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.2

Mound, L. A. and Tree, D., J. (2014) The minute, fungus-feeding species of Sophiothrips (Thysanoptera, Phlaeothripinae) from Australia and New Zealand. Zootaxa, 3860 (2). p. 184. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3860.2.5

2012

Tree, D. J. and Walter, G. H. (2012) Diversity and abundance of fungivorous thrips (Thysanoptera) associated with leaf-litter and bark across forest types and two tree genera in subtropical Australia. Journal of Natural History, 46 (47-48). pp. 2897-2918. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2012.737037

2008

Wallace, H. M., Howell, M. G. and Lee, D. J. (2008) Standard yet unusual mechanisms of long-distance dispersal: Seed dispersal of Corymbia torelliana by bees. Diversity and Distributions, 14 (1). pp. 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00427.x

2003

Grundy, P. R. and Maelzer, D. A. (2003) Towards the on-farm conservation of the assassin bug Pristhesancus plagipennis (Walker) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) during winter using crop plants as refuges. Australian Journal of Entomology, 42 (2). pp. 153-158. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6055.2003.00347.x

2000

Grundy, P. R. and Maelzer, D. (2000) Assessment of Pristhesancus plagipennis (Walker) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) as an augmented biological control in cotton and soybean crops. Australian Journal of Entomology, 39 (4). pp. 305-309. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00182.x

Grundy, P. R. and Maelzer, D. (2000) Predation by the assassin bug Pristhesancus plagipennis (Walker) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Nezara viridula (L.) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) in the laboratory. Australian Journal of Entomology, 39 (4). pp. 280-282. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00181.x

Mo, J., Treviño, M. and Palmer, W.A. (2000) Establishment and distribution of the rubber vine moth, Euclasta whalleyi Popescu-Gorj and Constantinescu (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), following its release in Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology, 39 (4). pp. 344-350. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-6055.2000.00187.x

1962

Kirkpatrick, T.H. (1962) Methods of rearing Heliothis species, and attempted crossbreeding. Queensland Journal of Agricultural Science, 19 (4). pp. 565-566.