Insectivorous bats provide ecosystem services in agricultural and urban landscapes by
consuming arthropods that are considered pests. Bat species inhabiting cities are expected …

Diptera (Insecta) are able to transmit approximately 200 pathogenic microorganisms to
humans and animals, causing more than 65 diseases, including bovine mastitis, which …

Diagnose. Insetos hemimetábolos, terrestres, aquáticos ou semiaquáticos. Variam de 0, 5 a
130 mm de comprimento. A coloração geralmente é uniforme, inconspícua, porém há …

Wolbachia are intracellular, maternally transmitted bacteria considered the most abundant
endosymbionts found in arthropods. They reproductively manipulate their host in order to …

The use of forensic entomology has become established as a global science. Recent efforts
in the field bridge multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, microbiology, chemistry …

Automated species identification based on data produced with metabarcoding offers an
alternative for assessing biodiversity of bulk insect samples obtained with traps. We used a …

A major challenge for global agriculture is the reduction of the environmental impacts
caused by meat and dairy production, and the conversion of monocultural pastures to …

Communities of plants and their insect brood pollinators have provided important insights
into the evolution of mutualism. The discovery of new systems has the potential to extend our …

Ant-plant associations are an outstanding model to study the entangled ecological
interactions that structure communities. However, most studies of plant-animal networks …

Tree cultivation is widely stimulated due to the provision of environmental services by
sequestering atmospheric carbon, but forestry is a potential danger to biodiversity, mainly …