calosoma


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Noun1.calosoma - any beetle of the genus Calosomacalosoma - any beetle of the genus Calosoma  
carabid beetle, ground beetle - predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects
genus Calosoma - genus of large predaceous ground beetles that feed on injurious caterpillars
Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle, searcher - large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America
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Some moths and hymenoptera accompanied the butterflies; and a fine beetle (Calosoma) flew on board.
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Although many had incorrectly identified the beetles as cockroaches, Zinette Moussa, head of the entomology laboratory at the Lebanese Agricultural Research Institute, said they were in fact Calosoma inquisitor, a species of ground beetle native to Europe and Asia Minor.
Not cockroaches: 'Beneficial' black beetles swarm in Bekaa
Order Family Species Feeding Coleoptera Carabidae Calosoma sp.
Diversity of Hemiptera (Arthropoda: Insecta) and their natural enemies on Caryocar brasiliense (Malpighiales: caryocaraceae) trees in the Brazilian Cerrado
Seasonal % Volume Spring Summer Fall Winter (n = 26) (n = 23) (n = 37) (n = 19) Mammals Sus scrofa 36.5 28.1 4.7 7.8 Odocoileus virginianus 14.0 2.2 6.9 37.4 Procyon lotor 14.0 4.4 2.1 8.2 Syluilagus palustris 8.2 0.2 2.4 4.0 Dasypus novemcinctus 0.0 3.5 0.4 0.0 Sciurus carolinensis 1.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 Oryzomys palustris 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.0 Sigmodon hispidus 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 Unidentified mammal 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.1 Subtotal 74.6 38.5 18.3 57.5 Birds, unidentified 9.5 0.0 0.1 4.7 Reptiles 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 Fish, unidentified 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.0 Invertebrates Coleoptera Scarabaeidae 0.7 2.2 1.1 0.1 Carabidae 0.3 0.0 0.6 0.4 Curculionidae 0.1 0.0 trace 0.2 Calosoma sp.
Food of bobcats and coyotes from Cumberland Island, Camden County, Georgia
Order Family Species Coleoptera Carabidae Calosoma sp.
Insectos chupadores in Caryocar brasiliense (Caryocaraceae) en el Cerrado (Brasil). (Seccion Basica: Articulos de investigacion)
Calosoma sayi and Labidura riparia Predation on noctuid prey in soybeans and locomotor activity.
Circadian rhythms and food preference search of Pseudoplusia includens caterpillars (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)/Ritmos circadianos e preferencia pela busca de alimento de larvas de Pseudoplusia indudens (Walker, 1857) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Despues de analizar la morfologia de las estructuras clave y de comparar nuestros ejemplares con otros de diferentes colecciones, se considera que los especimenes colectados en la RNRM estan mas cercanos a la especie Calosoma fulgens Chaudoir, registrada desde Cali (Colombia) hasta el oriente de Panama en la Peninsula de Azuero (ERWIN, 1991), que las tres especies registradas para Colombia (MARTINEZ, 2005b).
Diversidad de escarabajos Carabidae y Scarabaeidae de un bosque tropical en el Magdalena medio Colombiano
(family Coccinellidae); Calosoma ground beetles (family Carabidae).
Growing fruit trees without spraying
1996)), ground beetles (Carabus coriaceus (Riecken & Raths 1996) and Calosoma affine (Wallin 1991)) have been tagged and tracked successfully with harmonic radar, a method similar to PIT tagging.
Evaluation of passive integrated transponders for abalone: tag placement, retention, and effect on survival

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