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The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies (2014)
Journal Article
Saeed, R., Razaq, M., & Hardy, I. C. (2015). The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies. Journal of Pest Science, 88(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-014-0638-7

Many agricultural pests can be harboured by alternative host plants but these can also harbour the pests’ natural enemies. We evaluated the capacity of non-cotton plant species (both naturally growing and cultivated) to function as alternative hosts... Read More about The importance of alternative host plants as reservoirs of the cotton leaf hopper, Amrasca devastans, and its natural enemies.

Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra-biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids (2014)
Journal Article
Tang, X., Meng, L., Kapranas, A., Xu, F., Hardy, I. C., & Li, B. (in press). Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra-biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids. Nature Communications, 5, Article 4942. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5942

Selfish interests usually preclude resource sharing, but under some conditions collective actions enhance per capita gains. Such Allee effects underlay early explanations of social evolution but current understanding focusses on kin selection (inclus... Read More about Mutually beneficial host exploitation and ultra-biased sex ratios in quasisocial parasitoids.

Factors affecting diet, habitat selection and breeding success of the African Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus in a fragmented landscape (2014)
Journal Article
Swatridge, C. J., Monadjem, A., Steyn, D. J., Batchelor, G. R., & Hardy, I. C. (in press). Factors affecting diet, habitat selection and breeding success of the African Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus in a fragmented landscape. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology, 85(1), https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2014.896832

This study aimed to identify variables that affect habitat selection and nesting success of the African Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus, the largest forest raptor, in north-eastern South Africa. A preference for nesting in the Northern Mistbelt... Read More about Factors affecting diet, habitat selection and breeding success of the African Crowned Eagle Stephanoaetus coronatus in a fragmented landscape.

Higher aggression towards closer relatives by soldier larvae in a polyembryonic wasp (2014)
Journal Article
Dunn, J., Dunn, D. W., Strand, M. R., & Hardy, I. C. (2014). Higher aggression towards closer relatives by soldier larvae in a polyembryonic wasp. Biology Letters, 10(5), Article 20140229. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0229

In the polyembryonic wasp Copidosoma floridanum, females commonly lay one male and one female egg in a lepidopteran host. Both sexes proliferate clonally within the growing host larva. Distinct larval castes develop from each wasp egg, the majority b... Read More about Higher aggression towards closer relatives by soldier larvae in a polyembryonic wasp.

One hundred years of parasitoids (2014)
Journal Article
Kapranas, A., & Hardy, I. C. (2014). One hundred years of parasitoids. Biocontrol News and Information, 35(1), Article 1N-4N

Development of microsatellite markers and detection of genetic variation between Goniozus wasp populations (2014)
Journal Article
Khidr, S. K., Hardy, I. C., Zaviezo, T., & Mayes, S. (2014). Development of microsatellite markers and detection of genetic variation between Goniozus wasp populations. Journal of Insect Science, 14(43), https://doi.org/10.1673/031.014.43

Molecular genetic markers reveal differences between genotypes according to the presence of alleles (the same or different) at target loci. Microsatellite markers are especially useful codominant markers that have been used in a wide range of studies... Read More about Development of microsatellite markers and detection of genetic variation between Goniozus wasp populations.