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Ento 2012

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Who is looking after our entomological “canary” in the agrochemical coal mine?
John A. McLean
Like fire, can computer technology be a good servant, but a bad master? A Referee's experience with on-line reviewing
Alan Eyles
The impact of fire on tussock grassland invertebrates
Barbara Barratt, Colin Ferguson, Diane Barton, Peter Johnstone
Rearing insects:    Some personal insights
AH Gourlay
How clasper morphology relates to genetic and behavioural isolation in the New Zealand Stick Insect genus Clitarchus
Shelley Myers, Greg Holwell, Thomas Buckley
What bugs are knocking on New Zealand’s doors? An analysis of ten years of border interception data
Qing Hai Fan, Sherly George, Thérèse Oliver
Genetic variation in Moroccan specimens of Microctonus aethiopoides, a widespread weevil parasitoid
Cor Vink, Barbara Barratt, Craig Phillips, Diane Barton
Cryptotermes brevis (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae): – dealings with an illegal immigrant in New Zealand
Diane C Jones, Shaun Bennett, Travis Ashcroft, Bruce Philip
The role of olfactory and visual cues in host finding by pine bark beetles and wood borers
Jessica Kerr, Ecki Brockerhoff, Dave Kelly, Colleen Carlson
The effect of density on alternative mating tactics in the New Zealand giraffe weevil
Christina Painting, Thomas Buckley, Greg Holwell
Responding to Coptotermes acinaciformis detections in New Zealand
Shaun Bennett, Heather Pearson
Enhancement of Biosecurity and Quarantine Services in Pacific Island Countries
Lalith Kumarasinghe, Disna Gunawardana, Sherly George
Two Orthopteran species recently established in Northland, New Zealand: Austrosalomona falcata (Tettigoniidae) and Pterapotrechus sp. (Gryllacrididae).
Olwyn R. Green
A STRATEGY FOR REVEALING CRYPTIC BEASTIES: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE VALUE OF EMERGENCE CAGES.
George Gibbs
Fooling flies with dung mimicry: New Zealand & Tasmanian Splachnaceae mosses
Nathan Camp, Georgia Cummings, Anne Gaskett
FOSTERING THE FRENCH CONNECTION: ZEALANDIAN JAW-MOTH BIOGEOGRAPHY
George Gibbs, David Lees
New insights from re-examining labels and old specimens of the New Zealand black fly, Austrosimulium australense (Schiner) (Diptera:  Simuliidae)
Trevor K. Crosby, Douglas A. Craig
Dragonfly (Anisoptera:Odonata) diversity from the northern Meta region of Colombia.
Catalina Amaya-Perilla, Gonzalo E. Fajardo-Medina, Carlos J. Moreno-Fonseca, Greg Holwell
Sexual conflict among the lichen tuft moths.
Rebecca Bennik, Robert Hoare, Thomas Buckley, Greg Holwell
A novel fluorescence-based multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid and simultaneous detection of leafminers
Anuradha Sooda, Disna Gunawardana, Lalith Kumarasinghe
Scramble competition and sperm competition in a sexually cannibalistic praying mantis
Greg Holwell, Kate Barry, Louise Allen, Marie Herberstein
The tick fauna of the New Zealand subregion: Recent additions, misidentifications and associated gaps in our knowledge.
Scott Hardwick, Allen Heath
Dispersal behaviour of the parasitic wasp Cotesia urabae Austin and Allen (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a recently introduced biocontrol agent to fight the gumleaf skeletoniser Uraba lugens Walker (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) in New Zealand
Gonzalo Avila, Greg Holwell, Lisa Berndt
New Zealand cave weta biodiversity (Rhaphidophoridae)
Josephine Fitness, Steve Trewick, Olivier J.-P. Ball, Mary Morgan-Richards
The challenges in demonstrating cause and effect in weed biocontrol: St. John’s wort as a case study
Ronny Groenteman, Simon Fowler, Jon Sullivan
Effects of mate choice and mate density on mating success in Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae)
Rashmi Kant, Maria Minor, Steve Trewick
Tokoriro taxonomy - web tool
Steve Trewick, Prasad Doddala, Josephine Fitness, Mary Morgan-Richards
Verdict of the Ultimate Poo Critics: Food Selection and Preference in Native New Zealand Dung Beetles 
Jamie Stavert, Jacqueline Beggs, Anne Gaskett
Hopping madness: taxonomic troubles with terrestrial Talitridae of Tai Tokerau
Olivier J.-P. Ball, W. Richard Webber
Observations on spider diversity in Tai Tokerau
Olivier J.-P. Ball, Brian M. Fitzgerald
Impact of native and exotic millipedes on decomposition, nutrient cycling and puriri (Vitex lucens) growth rates in laboratory microcosms
Anne Tomlinson, David Wardle, Jacqueline Beggs
Nematodes in the native bush ant Prolasius advenus.
Phil Lester, Zeng Qi Zhao, Kerrie Davies, Evan Brenton-Rule, Julien Grangier, Monica Gruber, Robin Giblin-Davis
Has the ecological importance of scale insects been neglected as a restoration strategy in New Zealand forest ecosystems?
Annette Evans, Jacqueline Beggs, David Towns
Effects of phytosanitary measures to reduce borer infestations of wood packaging materials and trends in interception rates of organisms associated with wooden items
Ecki Brockerhoff, Robert Haack, Joe Cavey, Andrew Liebhold, Frank Lowenstein, Mark Kimberley, John Bain, Stephanie Sopow, Alan Flynn, Lalith Kumarasinghe
New Zealand’s endemic dung beetles (Coleoptera: Canthonini): what have we got?
Shaun Forgie
The Larger Moths of New Zealand image gallery and online guide
Robert Hoare, Birgit Rhode, Alan Emmerson
Developing simplified identification guides for border control throughout the Pacific.
Franz-Rudolf Schnitzler, James Haw, Lalith Kumarasinghe, Sherly George
Invertebrates of geothermally influenced aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems: longitudinal and lateral linkages.
Ian Boothroyd

Accepted Poster Abstracts

Sexual conflict in New Zealand seaweed flies (Coelopidae).  
Dhobasheni Newman, Greg Holwell
Kanapa Karaaroa (Aupouriella pohei) — New Zealand’s rarest mayfly
Stephen R. Pohe, Michael J. Winterbourn, Olivier J.-P. Ball
The distribution, phylogeography and morphology of the New Zealand ground weta, Hemiandrus maculifrons.
Briar Smith
Auckland Museum Natural History Collections Online
John Early, Curator Entomology, Wilma Blom, Curator Marine
Insect Visitation to the Native New Zealand Orchid, Corybas cheesemanii
Michelle Kelly, Anne Gaskett
Ground-dwelling invertebrates from Bream Head Scenic Reserve
Catherine M. Mitchell, Olivier J.-P. Ball, Peter T. Mitchell
Kauri Fine Woody Debris: Invertebrate decomposers 
Eileen Nowland-Walker, Luitgard Schwendenmann, Jacqueline Beggs
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