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A number of ladybirds (coccinella) feed on green-flies and are an important auxiliary to farmers. Starting with an understanding of migratory and gregarious behaviour of certain species, such as ‘Adonia...
Following a short ecological introduction, shows vitelloproctodeal food exchanges whereby workers nourish the eggs, then adults of the colony during the larval growth phase. ‘Antenna talk’, i.e. antenna...
One of the factors affecting the behaviour of cultured insect blood is the adhesiveness of the cells to objects in their environment. Study is made of the haematocytes, when cultured on glass, with one...
The life cycle of two of the most common species of cicadas in France: ‘Cicada orni linne’ and ‘Lyristes plebeius scopoli’.
A detailed record of the complex morphogenetic changes occurring in ‘Crinoniscus equitans’ (Isopoda, Cryptoniscidae) which is parasitic on the cirripede ‘Balanus perforatus’. Starting with the sex...
Weaver ants build nests by rolling and folding leaves and interweave the gaps with the silk of the larvae. The spaces between the nests are bridged by chains of ants. Trophobiosis (nutrition symbiosis) with...
Simple presentation of the life cycle of the death-watch beetle.
The behaviour of the sand earwig ‘Labidura riparia’ commonly found on the coast; preying, mating dance, nest-digging, care of the eggs by the female, hatching, life of the young in the nest, growth,...
The following phenomena are shown in detail - adult feeding, mating, egg-laying, hatching, larva crawling and feeding, larva spinning base, cushion and girdle, pupation, emergence of adult, wing expansion.*
Shows the beetle moving about its habitat, and a variety of other animals which belong to the same habitat. Examples of cryptic colouration, distracting eye spot, lacewing laying eggs on stalk, protective...
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