BIOL 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Icerya Purchasi, Mantophasmatidae, Neuroptera
14 Dec 2017
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Final exam: 2 hours long: dec 4 at 7pm. Reading for nov 23 new approach to controlling mosquitoes/their diseases using symbionts. Insects feeding on live animal tissue predators: kill and consume a number of prey individuals, Parasitoids: develop in/on and kill one individual host, parasites: develop in/on individual host but don"t kill it, parasitism: developing in/on and individual hosts (refers to both parasites and parasitoids). Distinctions between groups are sometimes blurry, e. g. comperia wasps lay eggs in cockroach egg cases, wasp larva feeds on many eggs. Predator (killing/consuming >1 individual, but parasitoid (develops in host)) Orders that are almost entirely predaceous odonatan, mantodean, mantophasmatodea. Omnivory is common plant and animal tissues (thrips). Increasing energy cost increasing time cost: active search (e. g. tiger beetles), trap (e. g. Increasing energy cost increasing time cost: active search (e. g. tiger beetles), trap (e. g. antlion pits), sit and wait (ambush) (e. g.
