What's the difference between insectary and insectology?

Insectary


Definition:

  • (n.) A place for keeping living insects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Successful results were obtained with insectary-reared reduviids and Indonesian isolates.
  • (2) Twelve colonies of Aedes albopictus were maintained at laboratory conditions, with the following results: Insectary conditions--Air humidity: 90-95%; Temperature: 25 degrees C; Blood source: human; Breeding places: Plastic glass or bamboo; Number eggs per female: 36.37; Incubation time: 1 to 6 days; Larval period: 4 to 9 days; Pupal period: 1 to 5 days; Adults life span: females--30.8 days and males--26.6 days.
  • (3) The colony was reared in an insectary at a temperature of 24-26 degrees C and relative humidity of 60-70% in cages of the size 0.3 x 0.3 x 0.2 m. The development of the species M. zaraptor from egg to adult lasted 19 to 23 days, in S. nigroaenea it was 23 to 25 days.
  • (4) Successful colonization of Mansonia dives, the principal vector of subperiodic Brugia malayi was established in a field insectary.
  • (5) Oviposition of controls was subject to seasonal variation despite the relatively uniform insectary conditions.
  • (6) Progeny of wild females collected from corrals or human bait were reared in an insectary.
  • (7) Filth fly parasites reared by commercial insectaries were released on two dairies (MO, DG) in southern California to determine their effect on populations of house flies, Musca domestica L., and stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans (L.).
  • (8) tritaeniorhynchus under insectary conditions, life expectancy was 28.3 days for males and 59.8 days for females.
  • (9) Diapausing F1 progeny did not express autogeny after a 42-day simulated winter or after diapause termination periods of 4 days in the insectary or 29 days outdoors during January.
  • (10) The same F1 progeny expressed 43% autogeny when reared in an insectary under simulated "summer" conditions (25 degrees C, 16L:8D).
  • (11) They were then maintained (a) in the insectary at 20 degrees C, after rearing at either 20 degrees C or 27 degrees C; (b) at ambient outdoor temperatures, range 12.2-28.9 degrees C, mean 19.6 degrees C; or (c) at 27 degrees C after rearing at 27 degrees C. There was no significant difference in rates of MVE infection or transmission when mosquitoes were reared and maintained constantly at 20 degrees C or 27 degrees C. However, for females kept at reduced temperature (i.e.
  • (12) provocans reared in the insectary from pupae collected at the study site in 1989.
  • (13) They therefore built a mini, mobile insectary at the Airs compound in Bamako.
  • (14) Duration of the whole larval and pupal stage under insectary and controlled conditions was studied.
  • (15) quinquefasciatus under insectary, outdoor cage and field conditions.
  • (16) Insectary in a box The Africa Indoor Residual Spraying Programme ( Airs ) have built an ' insectary in a box ', using a 40 foot x 8 foot shipping container.
  • (17) To investigate the existence of subspecies of Anopheles albimanus Wiedeman in southern Mexico, the egg morphology of specimens obtained from several field populations and from insectary-adapted colonies of uniform pupal phenotype was examined.
  • (18) Females were then blood fed and the progeny reared in the insectary; autogeny rates among F2 females in 4 families ranged from 0 to 43%.
  • (19) With the possible exception of a steer manure infusion under insectary conditions, none of the media consistently attracted large numbers of gravid Cx.
  • (20) The adult progeny of a backcross between a doubly-resistant colony and a fully susceptible colony were exposed in conventional test kits to the standard discriminating dose of dieldrin, and kept in the insectary overnight.

Insectology


Definition:

  • (n.) Entomology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the new Harvard study, published in the Bulletin of Insectology, the scientists studied the health of 18 bee colonies in three locations in central Massachusetts from October 2012 till April 2013.

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