Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Entomophagy is widespread among many animals, including non-human primates. [3] Animals that feed primarily on insects are called insectivores . Insects, [ 4 ] nematodes [ 5 ] and fungi [ 6 ] that obtain their nutrition from insects are sometimes termed entomophagous , especially in the context of biological control applications.
Evidence suggests that evolutionary precursors of Homo sapiens were entomophagous and arachnophagous. Insectivory also features to various degrees amongst extant primates , such as marmosets and tamarins , [ 20 ] and some researchers suggest that the earliest primates were nocturnal , arboreal insectivores. [ 11 ]
Their prey animals typically, but not exclusively, comprise insects and other arthropods. Plants highly adapted to reliance on animal food use a variety of mechanisms to secure their prey, such as pitfalls, sticky surfaces, hair-trigger snaps, bladder-traps, entangling furriness, and lobster-pot trap mechanisms.
Green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, killed by the fungus Pandora neoaphidis (Zygomycota: Entomophthorales) Scale bar = 0.3 mm. Entomopathogenic fungi show a diversity of lifecycles, with differences across lineages, as well as within lineages, between species, and even between isolates within species. [5]
They are animals that occupy a bio control middle ground between microbial pathogens and predator/parasitoids. Although many other parasitic thread worms cause diseases in living organisms (sterilizing or otherwise debilitating their host), entomopathogenic nematodes are specific in only infecting insects.
While a number of venomous animals paralyze prey as live food for their young, A. compressa is different in that it initially leaves the roach mobile and modifies its behavior in a unique way. Several other species of the genus Ampulex show a similar behavior of preying on cockroaches. [ 2 ]
Like some other animal-names (such as sheep, deer, and moose) in English the word "thrips" expresses both the singular and plural, so there may be many thrips or a single thrips. Other common names for thrips include thunderflies, thunderbugs, storm flies, thunderblights, storm bugs, corn fleas, corn flies, corn lice, freckle bugs, harvest bugs ...
He wrote an influential text on the biology of insect predators and parasites, Entomophagous Insects (1940). Clausen was born in Randall, Iowa in a family of Danish immigrants, and grew up on the family farm in Oklahoma and from 1910 in Ontario, California. He graduated from the University of Berkeley in 1914 and received an MS in entomology in ...