Food limitation impacts life history of the predatory cladoceran Bythotrephes longimanus, an invader to North America

An account is given of an investigation made of the life-histories of Oscinella frit and its parasites in Ontario, Canada, with a view to the possible introduction of suitable parasites into England. The various Chloropid species associated with O. frit in North America are discussed.The life-history of the frit-fly in Ontario is similar to that in England except wheat, not oats, is attacked, and that there appears to be no regular grain-infesting generation, but the insect is never a major pest in Canada.The life-histories of the following six species of parasites are described : Hexacola sp. n., Polyscelis sp. n., Loxotropa sp., Cyrtogaster sp., Callitula bicolor and Spalangia drosophilae. Other hosts from which these parasites have been reared include Chloropids associated with O. frit in wheat, namely O. carbonaria, O. soror, O. minor and Meromyza americana.A brief account is given of the control exerted by these parasites on the population of frit-fly in Ontario and a comparison is made between the Canadian and English parasite complexes. From this it is concluded that S. drosophilae might exert some control of frit-fly if introduced into England.

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I.—American “Surface Geology,” and its Relation to British. With some Remarks on the Glacial Conditions in Britain, especially in Reference to the “Great Ice Age” of Mr. James Geikie

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800149994 ◽

1877 ◽

Vol 4 (11) ◽

pp. 481-496

Author(s):

Searles V. Wood

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Life History ◽

North America ◽

The United States ◽

Ice Age ◽

The Earth ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

The Rich ◽

Surface Geology

From no part of the world have we of late years derived more additions to the Geological Record than from North America. Besides important additions to the earliest pages of that record, the rich collections made by the United States Surveyors, both of fauna and flora, from the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene deposits, have thrown much light upon the life history of the Earth; and it is even contended that they have bridged over the interval which, notwithstanding the Maestricht beds, the Pisolitic, and the Faxoe Limestones, still remains sharply marked between the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of Europe so far as they have yet been examined.

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Ontogeny and life history of a large lamniform shark from the Early Cretaceous of North America

Cretaceous Research ◽

10.1016/j.cretres.2015.11.007 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 59 ◽

pp. 272-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joseph A. Frederickson ◽

Joshua E. Cohen ◽

Jeff L. Berry

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

North America ◽

Early Cretaceous ◽

History Of

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NEW CULICIDÆ FROM NORTH AMERICA

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent2843-2 ◽

1896 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 43-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D. W. Coquillett

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

New Species ◽

North America ◽

National Museum ◽

Museum Collection ◽

History Of ◽

Scientific Periodicals

In the course of identifying the Culicidæ in the National Museum collection and those received by Mr. L. O. Howard from various correspondents, for mention in a paper which he is about to publish, entitled, “Notes on the Life-history of Culex pungens, with remarks about other Mosquitoes,” three forms were met with which elearly represent new species; and as Mr. Howard desires to exclude all matter of a purely technical nature from his paper, it was deemed abvisable to publish the new species in one of our scientific periodicals.

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NOTES ON THE PREPARATORY STAGES OF EREBIA EPIPSODEA (Butler)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent28274-11 ◽

1896 ◽

Vol 28 (11) ◽

pp. 274-278

Author(s):

H. H. Lyman

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

North America ◽

History Of ◽

Interesting Species

In Part IX. of the 3rd series of Edwards's Butterflies of North America is given a very full and beautifully illustrated history of this species from the egg to imago; but as I have bred this species during the summer of 1895, through all its stages, and as the life-history, as worked out by me, differs in certain important particulars from that recorded by Mr. Edwards, I think it advisable that I should give my experience in the rearing of this very interesting species.

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HOWARDULA APTINI (SHARGA 1932) PARASITIC IN BLUEBERRY THRIPS IN NEW BRUNSWICK

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z64-082 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 42 (5) ◽

pp. 843-846 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

W. R. Nickle ◽

G. W. Wood

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

North America ◽

New Brunswick ◽

Parasitic Nematode ◽

Sample Introduction ◽

History Of ◽

First Time

A parasitic nematode, Howardula aptini (Sharga 1932) Wachek, 1955, is reported for the first time in North America, and is a parasite of two serious blueberry thrips. Parasitized thrips probably do not produce eggs as the ovarial tissue is greatly reduced by the nematode and dissections failed to reveal eggs in infected individuals. Parasitism varied and was 71% in one sample. Introduction of the nematode into unparasitized populations is feasible. Previously unknown details of the morphology and life history of the nematode are described and illustrated.

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The Biology of the Parasites of Loxostege sticticalis, L., in North America—Bracon vulgaris (Cress.) (Braconidae, Agathinae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s000748530003025x ◽

1947 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 145-155 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

F. J. Simmonds

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

North America ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

American Continent ◽

History Of ◽

Important Parasite

In a previous paper (Simmonds 1946*) the biology of Phytodietus pulcherrimus (Cress.), a parasite of Loxostege sticticalis, L., the sugar-beet web-worm, has been described. This paper will be devoted to the habits and life-history of another important parasite of Loxostege in North America, Bracon vulgaris (Cress.). This species appears to be confined to the American continent, all of the records being from Canada and the U.S.A. It has been reared only from Loxostege sticticalis, L., and L. commixtalis, Wlk. From the former species it has been recorded by Paddock (1912), Swenk (1918), Jones, Hoerner and Corkins (1921), Pepper and Hastings (1941), and Simmonds (1946); from the latter species by Hoerner (1933). During the present work it has been reared from L. sticticalis, material from both Montana and Alberta.

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