Post Views: 1,475 One of the most universal needs of animals is to understand the environment in which they live to move in complex and
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Escovopsis : Parasitism in mushroomists ants
Post Views: 2,310 Mushroom ants have the particularity of feeding exclusively on a Basidiomycete fungus, which they grow on a substrate fed by the collection
Sensory receptors in insects: mechanoreceptors – Part 3: tension and stretch receptors
Post Views: 1,282 Third part : tension and stretch receptors (prioceptors) Alike all arthropods, insects have an external skeleton, the exoskeleton, consisting of chitin and
Publication in the journal Insectes – July 2015 – n°177
Post Views: 1,339 La revue Insects, edited by OPIE (Office pour les Insectes et leur Environnement), has in its new July 2015 issue (n°177) taken
Hypocephalus armatus: a (very) unusual long-horned beetle
Post Views: 3,376 Hypocephalus armatus is a large South American Beetle em>Hypocephalus armatus is a large South American Beetle of a unique morphology among long
The power of the Cataglyphs of the desert
Post Views: 2,056 Desert ants of the species Cataglyphis bombycina live in environments with extreme temperature conditions. In the middle of the day, despite an
Mushroomists Ants of the genus Atta
Post Views: 2,911 The species of ants known as “mushroom ants” or “leafcutters” belong mainly to the genera Atta and Acromyrmex (family Formicidae and subfamily
Sensory receptors in insects: Mechanoreceptors – Part II: Chordotonic organs
Post Views: 3,910 Second part : chordotonal organs Alike all arthropods, insects have an external skeleton, the exoskeleton, consisting of chitin and forming the cuticle
Morpho’s blue colour: a structural origin
Post Views: 3,050 Color is not an intrinsic characteristic (own to) of living objects and organisms. It depends on the type of receivers and the
Mechanisms at the origin of defensive spraying in beetle bombers
Post Views: 1,689 Threatened, the bombardier beetles spray from their abdomen an irritating defensive liquid by a succession of very fast jets. This phenomenon begins
