Result of the author's survey of the microlepidoptera in Madeira and Porto Santo Islands and the study of specimen of Selvagem Grande Island catched by the Zoological Expedition to Madeira and Selvagens Archipelagos. A ...

Glutathione S-transferase activities measured in a series of beneficial insects belonging to different orders (Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Coleoptera) are higher than in a series of pest insects (Lepidoptera and Coleoptera). ...

Myrica faya, a component of the native laurisilva forest of the Azores, Madeira, and Canary Islands, was introduced to Hawaii during the late 1800s where it has become a noxious weed. Mechanical removal and chemical ...

In the present work, three Trichogramma sp. populations captured in the islands of Pico (A), Sao Miguel (B), and Sao Jorge (C) were compared using the following parameters: longevity, parasitic capacity, emergence rate and ...

Coleoptera were collected on Madeira and its associated islands during several expeditions from Manchester. The sites at which different samples were collected were analysed for their similarities based on the presence or ...

In this account a new subspecies of Trechus fulvus Dejean, 1831 is described: Trechus fulvus madeirensis n. ssp.. The localization of the captures (all in the entrance of a cave) and morphological features led us to the ...

The aims of the study were: 1) to analyse habitat preferences; 2) to identify the factors that lead to the pigeons feeding in agricultural fields, and 3) to monitor population changes of the long-toed pigeon, Columba trocaz. ...

Benthic macroinvertebrates and environmental measures were collected in 29 Italian lakes since the 50s. Artificial Neural Networks were used to cluster the sampling sites according to species assemblages. Species ordination ...

A distinction is made between seabirds, which feed in the tidal zone and rest on coast, and oceanic birds which are quite independant from land for rest as well as for food. Oceanic birds nest on or inside ground. They are ...

DNA sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene are presented for two samples taken from dark-rumped Oceanodroma Storm-petrels in the North Atlantic Ocean. These are compared with data from Oceanodroma castro, ...