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Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Recent research
- BiologyOpen access
Leaving X: How scale insects repeatedly evolved alternatives to chromosomal sex determination
Abstract Reproduction is a core feature of life, yet it is still unclear why sex determination systems are conserved for hundreds of millions of years in some taxa but repeatedly turn over in others. A prime example is the true bugs; the vast majority of families employ a conserv...
- Biology
Antroscelio Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): Out of Oblivion
Antroscelio Kieffer is a monobasic genus that was described alongside its type species, A. lucifugax Kieffer, in 1913. The description of A. lucifugax was based on a single male specimen collected in northern Tanzania the year prior, 1912. No additional material of this species i...
- Climate & Environment
Outbreaks of fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria (Harris) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), can be destructive and have lasting negative effects on forest health. A multi-year outbreak of fall cankerworm populations on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, provided an ideal opportunity to...