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First record after discovery, Palpostilpnus pterodactylus! By Artur Tomaszek for #asianaturechallenge2024
World Wasps Week 2024 succesfuly done. Outcome is 36,207 observations, 2,286 species, 2,220 Identifiers, 14,673 Observers. Fantastic job!
Beetles are visible members of food webs in tea plantations, with high species richness and abundance. Many tea pests, as well as natural enemies, are members of this order, so a knowledge of how groundcovers affect beetles can aid pest management. We collected beetles in a replicated field experiment in the Wuyi Mountains, Fujian Province, China.
Read more in Chen et al. 2021: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cropro.2021.105783
Read more in Liu et al. 2021: https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/66400/