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Sustainable insect management - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Davis ALV: 2002. Dung beetle diversity in South Africa: Influential factors, conservation status, data inadequacies and survey design. African Entomology, 10 (1), pp 53-65.

Veldtman R, McGeoch MA, Scholtz CH: 2002. Variability in cocoon size in southern African wild silk moths: Implications for sustainable harvesting. African Entomology, 10 (1), pp 127-136.

Martin S, Wossler TC, Kryger P: 2002. Usurpation of African Apis mellifera scutellata colonies by parasitic Apis mellifera capensis workers. Apidologie, 33, pp 215-232.

Martin SJ, Kryger P: 2002. Reproduction of Varroa destructor in South African honey bees: Does cell space influence Varroa male survivorship?. Apidologie, 33, pp 51-61.

Radloff SE, Hepburn R, Neumann P, Moritz RFA, Kryger P: 2002. A method for estimating variation in the phenotypic expression of morphological characters by thelytokous parthenogenesis in Apis mellifera capensis. Apidologie, 33, pp 129-137.

Wossler TC: 2002. Pheromone mimicry by Apis mellifera capensis social parasites leads to reproductive anarchy in host Apis mellifera scutellata colonies. Apidologie, 33, pp 139-163.

Grebennikov VV, Beutel RG: 2002. Morphology of the minute larva of Ptinella tenella, with special reference to effects of miniaturisation and the systematic position of Ptiliidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea). Arthropod Structure & Development, 31 / ISI, pp 157-172.

Grebennikov VV, Ballerio A, Scholtz CH: 2002. Larva and pupa of Cyphopisthes descarpentriesi Paulian (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Ceratocanthidae) and their phylogenetic implications. Australian Journal of Entomology, 41 / ISI, pp 367-374.

Barendse J, Mercer RD, Marshall DJ, Chown SL: 2002. Habitat specificity of mites on Sub-Antarctic Marion Island. Community and Ecosystem Ecology, 31 (4) / ISI, pp 612-625.

Holter P, Scholtz CH, Wardhaugh KG: 2002. Dung feeding in adult scarabaeines (tunnellers and endocoprids): Even large dung beetles eat small particles. Ecological Entomology, 27, pp 169-176.

Addo-Bediako A, Chown SL, Gaston KJ: 2002. Metabolic cold adaptation in insects: A large-scale perspective. Functional Ecology, 16, pp 332-338.

Davis ALV, van Aarde RJ, Scholtz CH, Delport JH: 2002. Increasing representation of localized dung beetles across a chronosequence of regenerating vegetation and natural dune forest in South Africa. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 11 / ISI, pp 191-209.

Forgie S, Grebennikov VV, Scholtz CH: 2002. Revision of Sceliages Westwood, a millipede-eating genus of southern African dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 16, pp 931-955.

Davis ALV, Scholtz CH, Philips TK: 2002. Historical biogeography of scarabaeine dung beetles. Journal of Biogeography, 29, pp 1217-1256.

Grebennikov VV: 2002. Beetle collecting in Kenya (Coleoptera). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 72 / Jun, pp 205-208.

Martin SJ, Beekman M, Wossler TC, Ratnieks FLW: 2002. Parasitic Cape honeybee workers, Apis mellifera capensis, evade policing. Nature, 415 / Jan, pp 163-165.

Mostert MA, Schoeman AS, van der Merwe M: 2002. The relative toxicities of insecticides to earthworms of the Pheretima group (Oligochaeta). Pesticide Science, 58, pp 446-450.

Govender P: 2002. Management of insect pests: Have the goalposts changed with certification?. Southern African Forestry Journal, 195, pp 39-45.

 

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