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Dieter Hochuli

Sydney
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Ecologist @Sydney_Uni. Likes insects, spiders, birds, urban ecology & natural history. And art, sport and music. Tsundoku expert. President-elect @EcolSocAus
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Phenology of Kleptobiotic Sundew Bugs Tracks Peak Stickiness of Their Carnivorous Host Plants

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By Greg Bourke, Dieter Hochuli, Zoe Bloesch
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction The sundew bug genus Setocoris China & Carvalho 1951 of the family Miridae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) comprises at least 21 species, with only three formally described (Cassis and Gross 1995) (Figure 1). Many species of Miridae are associated with sticky-leaved plants, which offer protection and a food source of invertebrates captured by sticky hairs, referred to as “tentacles” (Wheeler and Krimmel 2015; Darwin 1875).
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Habitat Exploration and Foraging in a Dominant Hover Fly (Melangyna) is Sex‐Dependent

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By Tanya Latty, Caragh G. Threlfall, Dieter Hochuli
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 Introduction Differing foraging behaviours between males and females of the same species have been observed in some pollinator taxa, for example, in bees (Roswell et al. 2019) and butterflies (Ehl et al. 2018). These differences in foraging behaviour are often associated with differing nutritional requirements and may decrease the amount of shared resources and intraspecific competition (Roswell et al. 2019; Ehl et al. 2018).
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'De-extinction' of dire wolves promotes false hope: Technology can't undo extinction

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By Martín Boer-Cueva, Dieter Hochuli, Marco Salvatori, Peter Banks
| Phys.org Verified
Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The breakthrough has been achieved by Colossal Biosciences, a multibillion-dollar United States company that claims their goal is to restore biodiversity through the de-extinction of species. The project is being celebrated and marketed as a conservation win.
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