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Journal articles on the topic "Artificial legs Insects"
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Marquina, Daniel, Mateusz Buczek, Fredrik Ronquist, and Piotr Łukasik. "The effect of ethanol concentration on the morphological and molecular preservation of insects for biodiversity studies." PeerJ 9 (February 12, 2021): e10799. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10799.
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Traditionally, insects collected for scientific purposes have been dried and pinned, or preserved in 70% ethanol. Both methods preserve taxonomically informative exoskeletal structures well but are suboptimal for preserving DNA for molecular biology. Highly concentrated ethanol (95–100%), preferred as a DNA preservative, has generally been assumed to make specimens brittle and prone to breaking. However, systematic studies on the correlation between ethanol concentration and specimen preservation are lacking. Here, we tested how preservative ethanol concentration in combination with different sample handling regimes affect the integrity of seven insect species representing four orders, and differing substantially in the level of sclerotization. After preservation and treatments (various levels of disturbance), we counted the number of appendages (legs, wings, antennae, or heads) that each specimen had lost. Additionally, we assessed the preservation of DNA after long-term storage by comparing the ratio of PCR amplicon copy numbers to an added artificial standard. We found that high ethanol concentrations indeed induce brittleness in insects. However, the magnitude and nature of the effect varied strikingly among species. In general, ethanol concentrations at or above 90% made the insects more brittle, but for species with robust, thicker exoskeletons, this did not translate to an increased loss of appendages. Neither freezing the samples nor drying the insects after immersion in ethanol had a negative effect on the retention of appendages. However, the morphology of the insects was severely damaged if they were allowed to dry. We also found that DNA preserves less well at lower ethanol concentrations when stored at room temperature for an extended period. However, the magnitude of the effect varies among species; the concentrations at which the number of COI amplicon copies relative to the standard was significantly decreased compared to 95% ethanol ranged from 90% to as low as 50%. While higher ethanol concentrations positively affect long-term DNA preservation, there is a clear trade-off between preserving insects for morphological examination and genetic analysis. The optimal ethanol concentration for the latter is detrimental for the former, and vice versa. These trade-offs need to be considered in large insect biodiversity surveys and other projects aiming to combine molecular work with traditional morphology-based characterization of collected specimens.
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Ghasemi, Aida, Jalal Sendi, and Mohammad Ghadamyari. "Physiological and Biochemical Effect of Pyriproxyfen on Indian Meal Moth Plodia Interpunctella (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)." Journal of Plant Protection Research 50, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 416–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10045-010-0070-9.
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Physiological and Biochemical Effect of Pyriproxyfen on Indian Meal MothPlodia Interpunctella(Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)Insect growth regulators generally have a selective effect on the target insects and have practically no apparent side effect on non-target organisms especially vertebrates. Hence, insect growth regulators could be a suitable choice to control pests in stored products. Ten-day-old larvae of Indian meal mothPlodia interpunctella(Hübner) were expressed to the juvenile hormone analogue pyriproxyfen in order to have an effect on growth, metamorphosis, reproduction, lipid and protein contents of ovaries. The larvae were treated by 0.02, 0.04, 0.08, 0.16, and 0.3 ppm of JHA in an artificial diet where controls received acetone alone. The results indicated significant differences in duration of growth, mean longevity of hatched adults, percentage of emerged normal adults, abnormal pupae, hatched larvae and mean oviposition ratein addition to the lipid and protein of ovaries compared to the controls. An inhibition concentration of fifty (IF50) for prevention of emerging adults was recorded 0.134 ppm. Pyriproxyfen caused significant defects in the legs and wings of some adults and sever morphological changes in the ovaries of emerged adults. The results showed that pyriproxyfen may be applied as an insecticide to decrease the damage caused by Indian meal moth on stored products. Pyriproxyfen can be used with low side effects to humans.
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Durr, V. "Stereotypic leg searching movements in the stick insect: kinematic analysis, behavioural context and simulation." Journal of Experimental Biology 204, no. 9 (May 1, 2001): 1589–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.204.9.1589.
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Insects are capable of efficient locomotion in a spatially complex environment, such as walking on a forest floor or climbing in a bush. One behavioural mechanism underlying such adaptability is the searching movement that occurs after loss of ground contact. Here, the kinematic sequence of leg searching movements of the stick insect Carausius morosus is analysed. Searching movements are shown to be stereotypic rhythmic movement sequences consisting of several loops. The typical loop structure allows the mean tarsus trajectory to be calculated using a feature-based averaging procedure. Thus, it is possible to describe the common underlying structure of this movement pattern. Phase relationships between joint angles, analysed for searching front legs, indicate a central role for the thorax-coxa joint in searching movements. Accordingly, the stereotyped loop structure of searching differs between front-, middle- and hindlegs, with leg-specific patterns being caused by differing protraction/retraction movements in the thorax-coxa joint. A simple artificial neural network that had originally been devised to generate simple swing movements allows two essential features of empirical searching trajectories to be simulated: (i) cyclic movements and (ii) the smooth transition into a search trajectory as a non-terminated swing movement. It is possible to generate several loops of a middle-leg search, but the precise size and shape of the loops fall short of a real-life approximation. Incorporation of front-leg retraction or hind-leg protraction during searching will also require an extension to the current model. Finally, front-leg searching occurs simultaneously with antennal movements. Also, because leg searching movements are a local behaviour, the legs remaining on the ground continue their stance phase, causing a forward shift of the body, including the searching leg. As a result of this shift, the centre of the searched space is close to the anterior extreme position of the tarsus during walking, representing the location of most likely ground contact according to past experience. Therefore, the behavioural relevance of searching movements arises from the combined actions of several limbs.
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van Grunsven, Roy H. A., Julia Becker, Stephanie Peter, Stefan Heller, and Franz Hölker. "Long-Term Comparison of Attraction of Flying Insects to Streetlights after the Transition from Traditional Light Sources to Light-Emitting Diodes in Urban and Peri-Urban Settings." Sustainability 11, no. 22 (November 6, 2019): 6198. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11226198.
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Among the different light sources used for street lighting, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are likely to dominate the world market in the coming years. At the same time, the spectral composition of nocturnal illumination is changing. Europe and many other areas worldwide have implemented bans on energy-inefficient lamps, such as the still very common mercury vapor lamps. However, the impact of artificial light on insects is mostly tested with light-traps or flight-intercept traps that are used for short periods only. By comparing the numbers of insects attracted by street lamps before and after replacing mercury vapor light sources (MV) with light emitting diodes, we assessed the impact in more typical (urban and peri-urban) settings over several years. We found that LED attracted approximately half of the number of insects compared to MV lights. Furthermore, most insect groups are less drawn by LED than by MV, while Hymenoptera are less attracted by MV than by LED. Thus, the composition of the attracted communities differed between the light sources, which may impact ecosystem processes and functions. In green peri-urban settings more insects are attracted than in an urban setting, but the relative difference between the light sources is the same.
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Cruse, Hoik, Jeffrey Dean, Thomas Kindermann, Josef Schmitz, and Michael Schumm. "Simulation of Complex Movements Using Artificial Neural Networks." Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C 53, no. 7-8 (August 1, 1998): 628–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/znc-1998-7-816.
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Abstract A simulated network for controlling a six-legged, insect-like walking system is proposed. The network contains internal recurrent connections, but important recurrent connections utilize the loop through the environment. This approach leads to a subnet for controlling the three joints of a leg during its swing which is arguably the simplest possible solution. The task for the stance subnet appears more difficult because the movements of a larger and varying number of joints (9 -18: three for each leg in stance) have to be controlled such that each leg contributes efficiently to support and propulsion and legs do not work at cross purposes. Already inherently non-linear, this task is further complicated by four factors: 1) the combination of legs in stance varies continuously, 2) during curve walking, legs must move at different speeds, 3) on compliant substrates, the speed of the individual leg may vary unpredictably, and 4) the geometry of the system may vary through growth and injury or due to non-rigid suspension of the joints. This task appears to require some kind of “motor intelligence”. We show that an extremely decentralized, simple controller, based on a combination of negative and positive feedback at the joint level, copes with all these problems by exploiting the physical properties of the system.
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Zhang, Jihong, Huyin Li, Maorong Liu, Huan Zhang, Hai Sun, Hongtuo Wang, Lin Miao, Miaomiao Li, Ruihao Shu, and Qilian Qin. "A Greenhouse Test to Explore and Evaluate Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Insect Traps in the Monitoring and Control of Trialeurodes vaporariorum." Insects 11, no. 2 (February 1, 2020): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11020094.
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Population control of small sucking insects has been challenging, and alternative control methods are constantly being sought. Visual traps have long been used to monitor and control pests. Colored sticky cards are widely used for diurnal pests, but their effects are influenced by environmental light conditions. Artificial light traps are mostly used for nocturnal pests. Here, we explored and evaluated light-emitting diode (LED) traps for the monitoring and control of small diurnal sucking insects using greenhouse tests targeting the greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum. We tested the trapping efficacy of the LED water pan trap, assessed the most attractive LED light and analyzed its efficacy under different weather conditions. The results showed that the LED water pan trap was too inefficient to be useful. Green LEDs were more attractive than yellow LEDs, UV LEDs and green-UV combinations. Regardless of sunny or cloudy conditions, the green LED trap caught more than twice the number of whiteflies than the yellow sticky card alone under summer shading conditions. Our study suggests that LED traps have a significant field application value in whitefly mass trapping and may also be efficient for other diurnal insects. The design of LED traps specific for diurnal insects is discussed.
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Cruse, Holk, Volker Dürr, and Josef Schmitz. "Insect walking is based on a decentralized architecture revealing a simple and robust controller." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 365, no. 1850 (November 17, 2006): 221–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2006.1913.
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Control of walking in rugged terrain requires one to incorporate different issues, such as the mechanical properties of legs and muscles, the neuronal control structures for the single leg, the mechanics and neuronal control structures for the coordination between legs, as well as central decisions that are based on external information and on internal states. Walking in predictable environments and fast running, to a large degree, rely on muscle mechanics. Conversely, slow walking in unpredictable terrain, e.g. climbing in rugged structures, has to rely on neuronal systems that monitor and intelligently react to specific properties of the environment. An arthropod model system that shows the latter abilities is the stick insect, based on which this review will be focused. An insect, when moving its six legs, has to control 18 joints, three per leg, and therefore has to control 18 degrees of freedom (d.f.). As the body position in space is determined by 6 d.f. only, there are 12 d.f. open to be selected. Therefore, a fundamental problem is as to how these extra d.f. are controlled. Based mainly on behavioural experiments and simulation studies, but also including neurophysiological results, the following control structures have been revealed. Legs act as basically independent systems. The quasi-rhythmic movement of the individual leg can be described to result from a structure that exploits mechanical coupling of the legs via the ground and the body. Furthermore, neuronally mediated influences act locally between neighbouring legs, leading to the emergence of insect-type gaits. The underlying controller can be described as a free gait controller. Cooperation of the legs being in stance mode is assumed to be based on mechanical coupling plus local positive feedback controllers. These controllers, acting on individual leg joints, transform a passive displacement of a joint into an active movement, generating synergistic assistance reflexes in all mechanically coupled joints. This architecture is summarized in the form of the artificial neural network, Walknet , that is heavily dependent on sensory feedback at the proprioceptive level. Exteroceptive feedback is exploited for global decisions, such as the walking direction and velocity.
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Boyes, Douglas H., Darren M. Evans, Richard Fox, Mark S. Parsons, and Michael J. O. Pocock. "Street lighting has detrimental impacts on local insect populations." Science Advances 7, no. 35 (August 2021): eabi8322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi8322.
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Reported declines in insect populations have sparked global concern, with artificial light at night (ALAN) identified as a potential contributing factor. Despite strong evidence that lighting disrupts a range of insect behaviors, the empirical evidence that ALAN diminishes wild insect abundance is limited. Using a matched-pairs design, we found that street lighting strongly reduced moth caterpillar abundance compared with unlit sites (47% reduction in hedgerows and 33% reduction in grass margins) and affected caterpillar development. A separate experiment in habitats with no history of lighting revealed that ALAN disrupted the feeding behavior of nocturnal caterpillars. Negative impacts were more pronounced under white light-emitting diode (LED) street lights compared to conventional yellow sodium lamps. This indicates that ALAN and the ongoing shift toward white LEDs (i.e., narrow- to broad-spectrum lighting) will have substantial consequences for insect populations and ecosystem processes.
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Van Nieukerken, Erik J., and Anders N. Nilsson. "The third-instar larva of the water beetle Coelambus nigrolineatus (Steven) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)." Insect Systematics & Evolution 16, no. 1 (1985): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631285x00018.
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AbstractThe third-instar Iarva of Coelambus nigrolineatus (Steven, 1808) (= C. lautus (Schaum, 1843)) is described from material collected in artificial dune-lakes in the Netherlands. The larva is characterized by legs with swimming hairs and long urogomphi with numerous secondary setae. In these characters it resembles the larva of C. confluens (Fabricius), from which it can be separated on the narrower frontal projection of the head and the relatively shorter hindclaws.
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Nurindah, G. H. Walter, and R. L. Tiongson. "Larval diet affects number of femoral ‘brush’ scales in maleHelicoverpa punctigeramoths (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)." Bulletin of Entomological Research 91, no. 5 (October 2001): 355–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/ber2001118.
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AbstractMales ofHelicoverpa punctigera(Wallengren) show considerable variation in the number of femoral scales on the prothoracic legs. Such intraspecific variation in adult morphology could indicate the presence of undetected sibling species, or it may be related to larval diet.Helicoverpa punctigerais polyphagous, and different host plant species are likely to represent diets of different quality. Femoral lengths and the numbers of femoral scales on the prothoracic legs were therefore determined from: (i) individuals that had been collected as larvae from various host in the field; and (ii) individuals that had been laboratory-reared, in split-family tests, on different diets, namely cotton, lucerne, sowthistle and artificial diet. Host plant species (and therefore presumably diet quality) influenced femoral length ofH. punctigeramales perhaps in conjunction with this, the number of femoral scales on the fore leg. The rearing experiment indicated, in addition, that the effect of host plant quality varies with larval stage, and that the pattern of this variation across the immature stages is dependent on host plant species. recorded variation in the morphology of field-collectedH. punctigeramales is therefore most readily explained as a consequence of different individuals developing (at least for most of their larval life) on different host plant species, with diet quality varying significantly species. The relevance of these results for insect developmental studies and evolutionary interpretations of host relationships is outlined.
Conference papers on the topic "Artificial legs Insects"
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Blumenstein, Claudia, Deborah Carannante, James David Hale, and Raphael Arlettaz. "LEDs, rivers and insect attraction: distance thresholds for attracting adult aquatic insects from their river habitat to artificial lights." In 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology. Jyväskylä: Jyvaskyla University Open Science Centre, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.17011/conference/eccb2018/107692.
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Ranu, Harcharan Singh. "Development of a New Artificial Knee Joint for an Asian and Middle Eastern Population." In ASME 2013 Conference on Frontiers in Medical Devices: Applications of Computer Modeling and Simulation. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/fmd2013-16008.
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Design of an artificial knee was developed using computer 3-D modeling, the high flexion knee was obtained by using a multi-radii design pattern, The increase of final 20 degrees in flexion was obtained by increasing the condylar radii of curvature. The model of the high flexion knee was developed and one of the models was subjected to finite element modeling and analysis. The compositions of components in the artificial knee were, femoral component and the tibial component were metal, whereas the patellar component and the meniscal insert were made using polyethylene. The metal component used for the analysis in this study was Ti6Al4V and the polyethylene used was UHMWPE. Overall biomaterials chosen were: meniscus (UHMWPE, mass = 0.0183701 kg, volume = 1.97518e-005 m3), tibial component (Ti6Al4V, mass = 0.0584655 kg, volume = 1.32013e-005 m3), femoral component (Ti6Al4V, mass = 0.153122 kg, volume = 3.45742e-005 m3), total artificial assembly (mass = 0.229958 kg, volume = 6.75e-005m3). However, in this design the load had been taken to 10 times the body weight. The weight over single knee is only half the maximum load as the load is shared between the two knee joints. Following were the loading conditions, taking average body weight to be 70Kgs and taking extreme loading conditions of up to 10 times the body weight, i.e. 700Kgs on each of the leg performed the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) over the newly designed knee. The loading was done at an increment of 100 Kgs. The loading conditions and the meshing details for the analysis of the assembly were Jacobian check: 4 points, element size: 0.40735 cm, tolerance: 0.20367 cm, quality: high, number of elements: 80909, number of nodes: 126898. A maximum load of 600 Kgs is optimum for this model. The other components observed linear elastic behavior for the applied loads. Based on these results it was determined that the load bearing capacity of the model were well within the failure levels of the materials used for the analysis. A maximum load of 600 Kgs is optimum for this model. The other components observed linear elastic behavior for the applied loads. Based on these results it was determined that the load bearing capacity of the model were well within the failure levels of the materials used for the analysis. Conclusion drawn from this is that for the first time an innovative new design of an artificial knee joint to suite a segment of some religious population has been developed. This allows them to pray, bend in different positions and squat without too much difficulty.