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Data from: Odor Preference, Feeding, Survival, and Reproductive Fitness of the Invasive Larger Grain Borer Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) on Acorns of Three Native North America Oak Species
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Insects Prostephanus truncatus adults were obtained from an insect colony maintained at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research... -
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Data from: Behavioral and physiological response of <i>Eucosma giganteana </i>to semiochemicals from conspecifics and <i>Silphium integrifolium</i>
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Trapping in 2023 with a linear set of dosages of (E)-8-dodecenyl acetateField trapping was done according to the methodology in Ruiz et al. 2022. The fields were... -
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Data from: Elucidating the behavioral ecology to conspecific emissions by the native red sunflower seed weevil, <i>Smicronyx fulvus</i>, a resurging pest of sunflower
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InsectsThe S. fulvus used in this experiment were progeny of field-collected weevils. As described by Prasifka et al. (2015), adult weevils were collected from wild... -
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Data from: Subsequent chemical and foraging ecology preferences of <i>Theocolax elegans</i> (Westwood) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) reared on two alternate stored product host insects
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2.1 Source Host and Parasitoid InsectsFor all assays, 4–8-week-old R. dominica were reared on wheat, while S. oryzae were reared on wheat tempered to 13% grain... -
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Data from: The behavioral response to the putative necromones from dead Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in traps by conspecifics as a function of density and time since capture
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Insect Strains and Rearing: Two field-derived strains of T. castaneum from either Eastern Kansas, collected in 2012, or Riley County, KS, collected in 2019, were used...