An experimental insect growth regulator (IGR) termite bait system was placed with the objective of eliminating a persistent aerial termite colony active in the top three floors of a six-story, 100-unit apartment building. Following delineation of their foraging territory, bait matrix containing the active ingredient lufenuron was placed in contact with actively foraging termites within five infested apartments. Termite feeding activity was evaluated monthly. The infestation emanated from one colony of Reticulitermes flavipes. Bait was replaced as needed until all foraging activity ceased and no subsequent swarming occurred. No recurrence of swarming or foraging activity has been observed for seven years following cessation of termite activity within bait stations.

The Genus Carapona new status with nine valid species, and the genus Spinanella new status with one species, are revised. Both were previously subgenera, Carapona as a subgenus of Hecalapona, and Spinanella as a subgenus of Gyponana. Four new species are added to the genus Carapona: C. deserta and C. dicrota from Brazil, and C. colombiana and C. longula from Colombia. The characters which place species into these two genera are given, as well as characters to separate them from the closest genus Hecalapona. A key to the thirteen species of Carapona is also included.

The native bee community in a high grassland area in Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil, was studied during 2001 and 2002, using entomological net sampling on flowering plants. The goals were to know the potential bee pollinators in this particular habitat, their abundance and diversity and to fill the gaps in their geographic distribution. Sixty-three bee species in 4 families were collected. Six bee species are new state records. Representatives of Colletidae were not sampled and Halictidae was strongly represented (65% of the species, mainly Dialictus and Augochloropsis). Megachilidae was sampled (5 species) as well as Andrenidae (3 species). The decreasing sequence of importance was almost the same for species and individuals, without the introduced species Apis mellifera L. Threatened (Bombus spp) and specific bee species of this environment were of particular interest. The total number of sampled taxa represent nearly thirteen percent of the bee species known to occur in Santa Catarina State. Capture rates for different bee genera varied temporally as the bees' activity was strongly influenced by the cold season. The bee species composition found shows similarity of 35% to distant but similar environments. The high grasslands in Santa Catarina State conform to an archipelago framework, that likely corresponds to an island biogeographical pattern in terms of apifauna composition and dynamics.

A putative parasitic species: Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex) ruseni n. sp., of the genus Camponotus is described from Turkey. The new species differs from all other Tanaemyrmex species by 5 toothed mandibles, presence of short hairs on the eyes, transversally concave propodeal dorsum that disrupts the convex appearance of the alitrunk and presence of the metanotal groove.

Nine new species of Eugnamptus Schoenherr, 1839 are described from Central America: E. amistadensis (Costa Rica), E. baliosus (Panama), E. blancensis (Costa Rica), E. lampyridus (Costa Rica), E. lycidus (Costa Rica), E. megalosus (Costa Rica), E. mottledus (Honduras), E. panamensis (Panama) and E. viridius (Mexico). Collection data, digital images and map locations are provided.

Leptothrips fasciculatus (Crawford) is a tubuliferan thrips that has primarily been collected as adults from Eriogonum fasciculatum Bentham, a shrub that produces compound inflorescences with flowers in clusters. I observed, collected, and photographed adults and immature stages of the thrips on inflorescences of Eriogonum fasciculatum polifolium (Bentham) Torrey & A. Gray in the Mojave Desert during spring 2011 and 2012. Adults moved intermittently around the outside of inflorescences. Eggs were located, and first- and second-instar larvae were abundant, inside flowers and within the involucres that surround flower clusters. Mature second-instars and non-feeding fourth- and fifth-instars inhabited leaf litter and soil beneath plants. Eggs were subcylindical, translucent, without reticulation, and knobbed on one end by an aeropyle. Second-instar larvae were red with a median, yellow band. Adults and larvae were observed feeding on pollen and other flower parts but not prey. Leptothrips fasciculatus's anthophilous behavior contradicts the predation generalized for the genus.

Arthropod abundance was monitored in maize (Zea mays L.) crops on two farms located in western central Mexico during a single growing season. At the first farm (El Calvario, Michoacán), a no-tillage system was used in maize plots, while in the second farm (Singuio, Michoacán), a conventional tillage system was established. At these sites, sampling was conducted on nine occasions at seven day-intervals. Soil arthropods were captured using pitfall traps. At each sample point, maize plants were randomly selected and the number of arthropods observed on each plant was recorded. Poecilus mexicanus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was the most abundant insect captured and comprised 75% (n  =  2530) of the total capture of arthropods. Other carabid species together represented 18% of the total capture of arthropods at these sites and was significantly greater in the no-tillage farm compared to the conventional tillage farm. Staphylinids were the second most common group and were more abundant in the no-tillage than conventional tillage farm; Platydracus sp. Thomson (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) was the most abundant staphylinid captured and was most abundant in the no-tillage farm. No differences between the abundance of the remaining arthropods were observed between the farms. The abundance of arthropods associated with maize plants on these two farms was not clearly affected by the type of cultivation. Over the course of the study, the abundance of fall armyworm larvae Spodoptera frugiperda J. E. Smith (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) was very low (maximum 0.16 ± 0.02 insects/plot) on both farms; infestation by this pest did not differ significantly between farms. In conclusion, the no-tillage farm seemed to favor some beneficial predators present in/on the soil (e.g., carabids and staphylinids), possibly because these insects exhibit a preference for more diverse habitats and because they are more sensitive to the type and timing of cultivation practices.

Although the world-famous Elmo, Kansas fossil insect beds were discovered by E. H. Sellards at the turn of the twentieth-century, the first entomologist to systematically and critically study the insect fossils collected there was the renowned British scientist Dr. Robin John Tillyard (1881–1937). Tillyard spent his entire entomological career living in New Zealand and Australia, and most of his work on the Elmo fossils was done with specimens collected by the Yale Peabody Museum and shipped to him in New Zealand. But he also took a number of trips to London and Europe, travelling by steamship to the west coast of the United States, then across the country by rail, and by steamship again from the east coast of the U.S.A. to London, then back by the same route. He stopped in Kansas several times on these cross-country excursions, and was known to have visited the Elmo fossil locality on at least three occasions. Recently rediscovered photographs, taken by Kansas State University entomologist, Dr. Reginald H. Painter on field trips in 1928 and 1933, document Tillyard's visits to the fossil beds in the company of a number of Kansas entomologists.