Land-use practices such as agriculture can impact mosquito vector breeding ecology, resulting in changes in disease transmission. The typical breeding habitats of Africa's second most important malaria vector Anopheles ...

Forensic entomology is a criminalistic tool that provides relevant information about circumstances of death and time elapsed until a corpse is discovered. However, it is rarely applied in aquatic environments because ...

Although macrophytes are known to increase benthic diversity in lakes, the importance of this resource as food for the insects living at the bottom of these ecosystems are still poorly understood. This study assessed the ...

Egg cases, larvae and pupae of Berosus alternans Leach, 1817 are described from Florencio Vareta, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. Diagnostic charac­ters of externa! morphology are discussed, and comparisons with other ...