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How can I find out more about WOWBugs?
Teaching Materials
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A 320-page activity and resource book, WOWBugs: New Life for Life Science |
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Three "Working with WOWBugs" videotapes |
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A Kodachrome slide set featuring the ecology of mud dauber wasps, the most common WOWBug host and the best source of WOWBugs collected naturally in the wild. It comes with the booklet, "What's Inside a Mud Dauber's Nest?", also available separately. |
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An on-going quarterly WOWBugs Bulletin with the newest research, teaching ideas, and additional classroom activities. |
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Carolina Tips page, "Weird Wonderful WOWBugs" (on the Website of Carolina Biological Supply Company'). (opens in new window) |
Background & Research Materials
| Assem, J. van den TEMPORAL PATTERNING OF COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN SOME PARASITIC HYMENOPTERA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO Melittobia acasta. Journal of Entomology (A) 50(3): 137 - 146. 1975. (abstract) |
| Assem, J. van den, H.A.J. in den Bosch & E. Prooy
Melittobia COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF A DISPLAY. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 32(4): 427 - 471. 1982. (abstract) |
| Dahms, E. C. A REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGY OF MELITTOBIA (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) WITH INTERPRETATIONS AND ADDITIONS USING OBSERVATIONS ON MELITTOBIA AUSTRALICA. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 21(2):337-360. 1983 (pdf) |
| Evans, D. A. & R. W. Matthews COMPARATIVE COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN TWO SPECIES OF THE PARASITIC CHALCID WASP Melittobia (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) Animal Behaviour, 1976, 24: 46 - 51. (abstract) |
| Freeman, B.E. & K. Ittyeipe FIELD STUDIES ON THE CUMULATIVE RESPONSE OF Melittobia sp. (hawaiiensis COMPLEX) (EULOPHIDAE) TO VARYING HOST DENSITIES. Journal of Animal Ecology 45: 415 - 423. 1976 (abstract) |
| González, J. M. & J. B. Terán.
PARASITOIDES DEL GENERO Melittobia WESTWOOD (HYMENOPTERA : EULOPHIDAE) EN VENEZUELA. DISTRIBUCION Y HOSPEDEROS. [PARASITOIDS IN THE GENUS Melittobia WESTWOOD (HYMENOPTERA : EULOPHIDAE) FROM VENEZUELA. DISTRIBUTION AND HOSTS.] Boletín de Entomología Venezolana (N.S.) 1996. 11(2): 139 - 147. (abstract) |
| González, J. M. & J. B. Terán DISPERSION, BUSQUEDA Y ACCESO AL HOSPEDADOR POR Melittobia acasta (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) [DISPERSION, SEARCHING AND ACCESS TO HOSTS BY Melittobia acasta (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE)] Boletín del Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas L.U.Z. 2001. 35(1): 52 - 64. (abstract) |
| González, J. M., R. W. Matthews & J. R. Matthews
A SEX PHEROMONE IN MALES OF Melittobia australica AND M. femorata (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) Florida Entomologist 1985. 68(2): 279 - 286. (abstract) |
| González J. M., R. W. Matthews
& J. B. Terán. CORTEJO EN LAS AVISPAS PARASITOIDES Melittobia acasta Y Melittobia australica (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE). [COURTSHIP BEHAVIOR IN THE PARASITOIDS Melittobia acasta AND Melittobia australica (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE)] Revista de Biología Tropical 1996. 44(2): 687 - 692. (abstract) |
| González, J. M., J. B. Terán & M. T. Badaraco
INFLUENCIA DE LA DENSIDAD POBLACIONAL SOBRE LA SOBREVIVENCIA EN Melittobia acasta (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE) [INFLUENCE OF POPULATION DENSITY ON SURVIVAL OF Melittobia acasta (HYMENOPTERA: EULOPHIDAE)] Boletín del Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas L.U.Z. 1999. 33(3): 197 - 210. (abstract) |
| Hobbs, G.A. & M.D. Krunic COMPARATIVE BEHAVIOR OF THREE CHALCIDOID (HYMENOPTERA) PARASITES OF THE ALFALFA LEAFCUTTER BEE, Megachile rotundata, IN THE LABORATORY. The Canadian Entomologist 103(5): 674 - 685. 1971. (abstract) |
| Maeta, Y. & S. Yamane. HOST RECORDS AND BIONOMICS OF Melittobia japonica MASI (HYMENOPTERA, EULOPHIDAE). Bulletin of the Tohoku National Agricultural Experiment Station (47): 115 - 131. 1974. (abstract) |
| Matthews, R. W., J. Yukawa and J. M. González
SEX PHEROMONES IN MALE Melittobia PARASITIC WASPS: FEMALE RESPONSE TO CONSPECIFIC AND CONGENERIC MALES OF MALES OF 3 SPECIES. Journal of Ethology. 1985. 3: 59 - 62. (abstract) |
| Whitfield, J.B. & S.A. Cameron COMPARATIVE NOTES ON HYMENOPTERAN PARASITOIDS IN BUMBLE BEE AND HONEY BEE COLONIES (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE) REARED ADJACENTLY. Entomological News 104(5): 240 - 248. 1993. (abstract) |
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