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Systematics, diversity and host relationships of the baeine wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): parasitoids of spider eggs

By Muhammad Iqbal, Andrew D. Austin

Book: The Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1999

10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.037

EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2

... The Baeini is a species-rich group of tiny scelionid wasps that parasitize the eggs of spiders. Taxonomic research on one genus, Ceratobaeus Ashmead , shows that the 116 Australian species are easily recognized on distinct morphological characters, but only about 25% of them are described...

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What Darwin actually saw in Sydney in 1836

By F.W. Nicholas

Book: The Natural History of Sydney

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2010

10.7882/FS.2010.006

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6

... named after Darwin: a Leaf beetle Idiocephala darwini ; a Seed bug Ontiscus darwini ; a Gasteruptiid wasp Foenus darwinii ; and a Bee Halictus darwiniellus . The remaining novel insects comprise six Leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae), four Stink bugs (Pentatomidae), a Seed bug (Lygaeidae), an Assassin bug...

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Nesting analysis of arthropod assemblages in habitat fragments in the Sydney region

By Heloise Gibb, Dieter F. Hochuli

Book: The Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1999

10.7882/RZSNSW.1999.014

EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2

... in the Sydney region were sampled using pitfall and water traps to collect ants, beetles, spiders, flies and wasps over six days in Autumn 1997. Monte Carlo simulations were used to examine the nestedness of assemblages of arthropod species in heath and woodland fragments in the Sydney region. Only flies...

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A review of rainforest pollination and plant-pollinator interactions with particular reference to Australian subtropical rainforests

Geoff Williams, Paul Adam

Australian Zoologist (2014) 29 (3-4): 177–212.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1994.006

Published: 17 March 2014

.... 495-621 in The Insects of Australia. C.S.LR.O.: Melbourne. The Insects of Australia 495 621 Bronstein, J. L., 1988. Predators of fig wasps. Biotropica 20: 215-19. Predators of fig wasps Biotropica 20 215 19 Brown, G. R., 1987. Revision of the Australian genus Acanthothynnus...

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When predators become prey: the lizard-eating spiders of suburbia

Richard Shine, Bobby Tamayo

Australian Zoologist (2016) 38 (2): 212–213.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.021

Published: 01 January 2016

... items (e.g. Kaston 1965; Vitt 2000; Hódar and Sánchez-Piñero 2002). Other large invertebrates (such as scorpions, centipedes, wasps, beetles and praying mantids) are also willing to take reptilian snacks (McCormick and Polis 1982; Jehle et al. 1996). Even in the well-manicured lawns and garden sheds...

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The Diets of Sympatric Juvenile Skinks Ctenotus robustus and Ctenotus taeniolatus on Coastal Sand Dunes in New South Wales

Elizabeth Archer, Laurie Twigg, Barry Fox

Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 149–152.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1990.008

Published: 17 March 2014

...), Except for a single wasp in the stomach of one C. robustus, and less than 1 % 01 the material in the pitfall traps, hymenopterans consisted entirely of formicids (ants). B. Discriminant function scores for the juvenile skinks illustrating the separation in their diots (see text for explanation...

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Diet of two species of bluetongue skink, Tiliqua multifasciata and Tiliqua occipitalis (Squamata: Scincidae)

Glenn Shea

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (3): 359–368.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2006.009

Published: 17 March 2014

..., herbivore dung, and invertebrate and vertebrate material in the diet, although no ants were found among the material examined (the Hymenoptera recorded were pupal wasps and bees). 362 AustralianZoologist volume 33 (3) Australian For T. occipitalis, specific dietary data are available for three individuals...

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Can honeybees pollinate Grevillea ?

George Taylor, Robert Whelan

Australian Zoologist (2014) 24 (4): 193–196.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1988.001

Published: 17 March 2014

... of other animals, such as native bees, flies and wasps, by more efficient exploitation of the common resources of pollen ?Address for correspondence and offprint requests. September 1988 Secondly, if honeybees are ineffective as pollinators, their exploitation of the rewards offered by flowers to attract...

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Beetle Visitors to Flowers of Angophora hispida (Sm.) D. Blaxell (Myrtaceae) and some other Angophora in Sydney Region

G. A. Webb

Australian Zoologist (2014) 23 (4): 59–62.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1987.004

Published: 17 March 2014

..., flies, wasps, butterflies and grasshoppers (Armstrong 1979; Clifford and Drake 1979; Leach 1986; Michener 1965; Musgrave 1951 ; Prakash 1969; Rayment 1932, 1935; Rentz and Clyne 1983) and vertebrates such as birds and bats (Nelson 1963; Ratcliffe 1931; Recher and Abbott 1970) have been recorded visiting...

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Dingoes dining with death

Emma Spencer, Thomas Newsome

Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): 433–451.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.008

Published: 13 April 2021

..., in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW. A9. Dingoes may interact with insect scavengers at carcass sites. In these images, a dingo displays behaviours indicative of disturbance or interference by swarming European wasps (i.e. snapping at wasps around its head) at the Alpine study site in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW...

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Observations on the foraging behaviour of the introduced honeybee Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) on the saltmarsh plant Sarcocornia quinqueflora at Sydney Olympic Park

Cameron Webb

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 884–887.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.042

Published: 20 October 2011

..., wasps, moths and ants, were observed visiting the saltmarsh plant Frankenia pauciflora var. gunnii in field studies in a saltmarsh in South Australia and that these insects may be locally important for pollen transfer (Mackay and Whalen 2009). Celebrezze and Paton (2004) observed that for the flowering...

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A test of the feasibility of using glue traps to sample the invertebrate fauna in bilby Macrotis lagotis foraging pits

Tamra F. Chapman

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 529–534.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.025

Published: 01 September 2015

... excessive amounts of soil, despite exposure to wind on the soil surface. Few conclusions can be drawn about non-ant invertebrate fauna due to the small number of taxa and individuals captured. Of interest, however, was the slightly higher diversity and abundance of diptera (flies) and hymenoptera (wasps...

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The introduced Honeybee Apis mellifera and the Precautionary Principle: reducing the conflict

Graham Pyke

Australian Zoologist (2014) 31 (1): 181–186.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1999.018

Published: 17 March 2014

... with a large number of Australian native animals (Pyke 1990; Wills et al. 1990; Park 1993; Paton 1993, 1996; Schwartz and Hurst 1997); Floral pollen and nectar provide food not only to honeybees but also to many other insects including native bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles, as well as birds...

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Differential use of habitat aids local coexistence of three species of wrens (Maluridae) and the White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis : Pardalotidae in Myall Lakes National Park

Mark Sanders, L. Win Filewood, Barry Fox

Australian Zoologist (2014) 33 (2): 223–232.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2005.019

Published: 17 March 2014

..., wasps, weevils and small spiders and their eggs. Competition within guilds has also been questioned by some authors, who argue that many of Australia s birds are nomadic or migratory and hence these individuals are unlikely to experience the same selective pressures for any length of time (Mac Nally...

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Understanding the effects of fire on invertebrates in Australian temperate and sub-tropical forests: the value of long-term experiments

Alan York, Tom Lewis

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (4): 633–645.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.020

Published: 01 December 2018

... frequency and season on the abundance of litter-dwelling invertebrates York (2014) identified three general responses. Firstly, some taxa (cockroaches, centipedes, diplopods, bugs, ants, wasps and barklice) show no long-term response to fire. Secondly, some (spiders, springtails and woodlice) show a fire...

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The Ought-Ecology of Ferals: An Emerging Dialogue in Invasion Biology and Animal Studies

Anna Wilson, David Wilson, Libby Robin

Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 85–102.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2016.027

Published: 01 December 2017

... florea Insecta 1 A beetle Agriotes lineatus Insecta 1 A beetle Agriotes proximus Insecta 1 A parasitoid wasp Ascogaster quadridentata Insecta 1 Brown locust Locusta pardalina Insecta 1 Codling moth Cydia pomonella Insecta 1 Corn earworm Helicoverpa zea Insecta 1 Emerald Ash Borer Agrilus planipennis...

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Whitley Awards 2017

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 535–558.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.043

Published: 01 September 2018

... habitat. They are significant pests of timber, some of which have escaped Australia and gone around the world, and there are some wonderful examples of mimics of wasps and ants and various unrelated toxic beetles. The book includes good taxonomy. I ve been trying to train volunteers in expertise...

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Book

The Other 99%: The Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 1999

10.7882/0958608512

EISBN: 0-9586085-1-2

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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (3): fmi–660.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.045

Published: 28 October 2021

... of disturbance or interference by swarming European wasps (i.e. snapping at wasps around its head) at the Alpine study site in Kosciuszko National Park, NSW. 2021 AuZstoraolilaongist volume 41 (3) 451 The dingo dilemma: cull, contain or conserve: Plenary Session 2 ANNUAL FORUM 2019 THE THEATRETTE,TARONGA ZOO...

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