Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

We here attempt to show, using three broad insect groups–Lepidoptera (mainly leaf-
chewing larval herbivores and nectar-sucking adults), parasitic Hymenoptera (mainly …

The most widely recognized hymenopterans–ants, bees, and wasps or hornets–have long
been part of art, ritual, and folklore worldwide. Both extant and extinct Hymenoptera were …

Modern lampreys (Petromyzontiformes) are one of two lineages of surviving jawless fishes
(agnathans), and are thus of critical importance to understanding the evolution of the …

Baltic amber is a rich source of fossilized organisms and a valuable tool for evolutionary,
biogeographical and palaeoenvironmental research. Because it is found in several deposits …

The paper overviews the fossil record of insects with long mouthparts and rostra adapted to
feeding on floral nectar and pollination drops of extinct gymnosperms. The presence of …

There are lot of reasons and causes of insect decline. The main causes of insect decline is
attributed to habitat destruction, land use changes, deforestation, intensive agriculture …

Studies of Triassic insects in China began in 1956, and, so far, a total of 89 genera and 109
species have been found from the Triassic of China. The fossil records from 17 provinces (or …

Here we present a knowledge-data framework based on the politico-military statement by
Donald Rumsfeld (below) which has, we believe, direct relevance to ecological …

In the present work, we describe a new fossil family of Apoidea supported by phylogenetic
analyses involving both fossil and extant groups.† Burmasphecidae fam. n. is based on† …