This policy brief presents the level of emissions from understory forest wildfires in the Amazon as a way to highlight the urgent need to protect the carbon sink and storage potential, a critical function of the Amazonian rainforests, which has been diminished.
Attracting parasitic flies (Diptera: Phoridae) to injured workers of the giant ant Dinoponera Gigantea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Attracting parasitic flies (Diptera: Phoridae) to injured workers of the giant ant Dinoponera Gigantea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
Flies of the genus Apocephalus are common parasites of worker ants. Although the mechanisms used by parasitic flies to find their host are not well understood, olfactory cues have been suggested as the mechanism for host location, especially when the host ant is...