El Santuario nacional Lagunas de Mejía se constituye como uno de los humedales más importantes de la costa occidental de Sudamérica, con trascendencia internacional como lugar de descanso y alimentación de aves migratorias, ...

La historia de la clasificación de los insectos es analizada desde el punto de vista de sus relaciones externas (e.g., Unirramea, Mandibulata, Atelocerata, Pancrustacea) e internas (e.g., Hexapoda, Insecta, Entognatha, ...

Four colonies of the ant Pachycondyla striata were used to analyze the specie behavioral repertoire. Forty-six behavioral acts were recorded in laboratory. Here, we present the record the division of labor between the ...

Angiopolybia pallens (Lepeletier, 1836) exhibited an intense activity at the beginning (6:00-7:00 a.m.) and end of the day (5:30-6:00 p.m.) (bimodal daily activity) and a low efficiency index in resources collection. The ...

Studies of histological nature, histochemistry and ultra-morphology of the midgut of three species of ants belonging to the genus Cephalotes (atratus, clypeatus and pusillus) were performed. In histology H-E was employed, ...

Recent studies, proposed to obtain active compounds against termites (Heterotermes tenuis Hagen, as a model) have showed that attention could be driven to the limonoids, because they present high insecticidal activity ...