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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: A systematic review of the behavioral responses by stored-product arthropods to individual or blends of microbially-produced volatile cues
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A systematic search of the literature using Google Scholar, (https://scholar.google.com/) and Web of Science was used to identify studies that examined the effects of... -
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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: Non-consumptive effects of parasitoids and predators in stored products: The case of <i>Theocolax elegans </i>and other field-collected predators on the foraging of lesser grain borer and rice weevil
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InsectsBeetles used in this study were obtained from stock colonies maintained at the USDA Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Center for Grain and Animal Health... -
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Data from: Density-mediated emissions by Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) and Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) modulates foraging by conspecifics
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Our goal was to manipulate and observe the density-mediated effects of crowding on the behavioral response of both species to common food-based and pheromonal... -
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Data from: Field Trapping and Flight Capacity of Eucosma giganteana (Riley) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in Response to Behaviorally Active Congeneric Semiochemicals in Novel Silflower Agroecosystems
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We evaluated the flight behavior of E. giganteana in response to semiochemicals identified from other closely related Eucosma species, including: (Z)- and... -
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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... -
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Data from: Disruption of semiochemical-mediated movement by the immature Trogoderma variabile Baillon and Trogoderma inclusum Le Conte (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) after exposure to long-lasting insecticide netting
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Four to six-week-old larvae of Trogoderma variabile and Trogoderma inclusum were used for the experiment. Both strains were originally obtained from the field in... -
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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: Grain inoculated with different growth stages of the fungus, Aspergillus flavus, affect the close-range foraging behavior by a primary stored product pest, Sitophilus oryzae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)
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Our goals with this dataset were to 1) isolate, culture, and identify two fungal life stages of Aspergillus flavus, 2) characterize the volatile emissions from grain... -
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Data from: Biosurveillance for an invasive pest of maize, <i>Prostephanus truncatus</i>, across North America and in Greece
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Aim of DatasetIn this work, we performed a two-year latitudinal biosurveillance program for Prostephanus truncatus (Horn) (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae), related...