Traditional healing methods involving hundreds of insect and other invertebrate species are
reviewed. Some of the uses are based on the tenet of “similia similibus”(let likes be cured by …

Insects are important bioresources as they supply numerous tangible and intangible benefits
to humans. Day-to-day livings of many communities in the world are associated with insects …

Delimiting species boundaries is a complex challenge usually hindered by overlooked
morphological diversification or misinterpretation of geographically structured phenotypic …

Background There is scarce information about European folk knowledge of wild invertebrate
fauna. We have documented such folk knowledge in three regions, in Romania, Slovakia …

Background The ethnic communities in Nagaland have kept a close relationship with nature
since time immemorial and have traditionally used different kinds of insects and their …

The blister beetle is an important resource insect due to its defensive substance cantharidin,
which was widely used in pharmacology and plant protection. We determined the complete …

Cantharidin (CTD) is a toxic monoterpene produced by blister beetles (Fam. Meloidae) as a
chemical defense against predators. Although CTD is highly poisonous to many predator …

We present evidence of a possible case of self-medication in a lekking bird, the great
bustard Otis tarda. Great bustards consumed blister beetles (Meloidae), in spite of the fact …

Ethnopharmacological relevance Determining traditional remedies for human pathologies is
relevant, when compared with the standard materia medica of the pharmacopoeias and …

Untangling the relationship between morphological evolution and lineage diversification is
key to explain global patterns of phenotypic disparity across the Tree of Life. Few studies …