Male euglossine bees were sampled with chemical baits every two months from September
1997 to July 1999 at nine sites in the Desengano mountain range, Rio de Janeiro State�…

The predacious insect Chrysoperla externa (Hagen) has a number of traits that make it
amenable to mass-rearing and use as a biological control agent. Developmental and�…

Recently, our research group identified and reported 1, 8-cineole (CIN), a monoterpene that
naturally occur in many aromatic plants, as one of the major constituent of the essential oil�…

The Brazilian Atlantic Forest is one of the world's 'hot spots' for conservation because of its
high level of endemism and number of endangered species (Myers et al. 2000). After�…

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses Neuroptera, the insect order with complete
metamorphosis. With 6000 species distributed among 17 families, the order is relatively�…

Larval debris-carrying, which occurs in many insect taxa, is a remarkable behavioral trait
with substantial life history significance. For the Chrysopidae, information on the topic is�…

Ceraeochrysa is the most commonly collected Neotropical genus of lacewings; it is very
diverse, with 44 species described to date (Brooks & Barnard, 1990; Penny, 1997) and�…

cineole (eucalyptol) is widely used as an excipient in the pharmaceutical industry and as a
food flavoring agent, thus providing significant potential for human exposure to the�…

Field studies throughout the year focused on the life history of the small rice stink bug,
Oebalus poecilus, in southern Brazil. In addition, laboratory experiments examined the bug's�…

Galactomannan films from Cassia grandis seeds, associated or not with Cramoll 1, 4, were
used on topical wounds of rats for the evaluation of the healing process during 14 days. All�…