Mating disruption — (MD) is a pest management technique designed to control certain insect infestations. Specifically, mating disruption involves the use of synthesized sex pheromones to disrupt the reproductive cycle of insects. Contents 1 Mechanism 2 Advantages of … Wikipedia
Mating Systems and Strategies — is a monograph on mating systems written by Stephen M. Shuster and Michael J. Wade. It was published in 2003 by Princeton University Press. In it, the authors present a detailed theoretical framework for predicting the mating system of a species … Wikipedia
Mating yard — A Mating Yard is a term for an apiary which consists primarily of queen mating nucs and hives which raise drones. A Queen bee must mate in order to lay fertilized eggs, which develop into workers. Mating nucs A Mating Yard allows dozens of queens … Wikipedia
Assortative mating — (also called assortative pairing), and the related concept Disassortative mating, is the phenomenon where a sexually reproducing organism chooses to mate with individuals that are similar[1][2] (positive assortative mating) or dissimilar… … Wikipedia
crowing area — noun or crowing ground or crowing territory : the mating site selected and defended by a cock pheasant compare territoriality … Useful english dictionary
Ostrich — For other uses, see Ostrich (disambiguation). Ostrich Temporal range: pleistocene–present … Wikipedia
Galápagos Islands — Infobox World Heritage Site WHS = Galápagos Islands State Party = ECU Type = Natural Criteria = vii, viii, ix, x ID = 1 Region = Latin America and the Caribbean Year = 1978 Session = 2nd Extension = 2001 Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1The… … Wikipedia
Garter snake — Taxobox name = garter snake image size = 240px image caption = Coast garter snake Thamnophis elegans terrestris regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Reptilia ordo = Squamata subordo = Serpentes familia = Colubridae genus = Thamnophis… … Wikipedia
Great white shark — Taxobox name = Great white shark fossil range = Pliocene to recent status = VU trend = unknown status system = iucn2.3 image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Chondrichthyes subclassis = Elasmobranchii ordo = Lamniformes … Wikipedia
Engineer's blue — is a highly pigmented paste used to assist in the mating of two or more components.Joseph Whitworth popularized the first practical method of making accurate flat surfaces, during the 1830s, by using engineer s blue and scraping techniques on… … Wikipedia
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