Evidence-base for urban green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity.

Unlabelled: Green-blue urban infrastructures potentially offer win-win benefits for people and nature in urban areas. Given increasing evidence of widespread declines of insects, as well as their ecological importance, there is a need to better understand the potential role of green-blue urban infrastructure for insect conservation. In this review, we evaluated 201 studies about the ability of green-blue infrastructure to support insect diversity.

Two New Species of Emesis Fabricius, 1807 from Northwestern South and Central America (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae).

Two new species and a subspecies, Emesis (Aphacites) hypoaithos, Callaghan, Trujano-Ortega & Ríos-Málaver, sp. nov., Emesis (Aphacites) hypoaithos ochros, Callaghan, Trujano-Ortega & Ríos-Málaver, ssp.

Contrasting a Cassian-Merton model of mystical prayer with moments of Big-C creativity in contemporary music.

Within the psychology literature there is a dearth in understanding how and why instances of heightened creativity, or 'Big-C', may manifest randomly, often at an early age with minimal practice and experience. In contrast to ordinary "little-c" creativity, depictions of profound creative moments and the means by which they can be attained therefore remain as enigmatic as acts of mystical prayer. Pursuing this metaphor: with little-p equating to ordinary prayer and Big-P equating to mystical prayer, from the work of St.

A Portable Photocollector for the Field Collection of Insects in Biodiversity Assessment.

Arthropod biodiversity research usually requires large sample collections. The efficient handling of these samples has always been a critical bottleneck. Sweep netting along transects is an effective and commonly used approach to sample diverse insects.