The functions of plant feeding in the omnivorous predator Dicyphus hesperus: water places limits on predation

DR Gillespie, RR Mcgregor - Ecological Entomology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) nymphs were fed from egg hatch to the
adult stage on Ephestia kuehniella eggs provided either alone or in combination with tomato …

Potential use of Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) for biological control of pests of greenhouse tomatoes

RR McGregor, DR Gillespie, DMJ Quiring, MRJ Foisy - Biological Control, 1999 - Elsevier
The potential of Dicyphus hesperus Knight as a predator of greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes
vaporariorum (Westwood), and two-spotted spider mites, Tetranychus urticae Koch, was …

The effects of mullein plants (Verbascum thapsus) on the population dynamics of Dicyphus hesperus (Heteroptera: Miridae) in tomato greenhouses

JA Sanchez, DR Gillespie, RR McGregor - Biological Control, 2003 - Elsevier
The response of Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) to whitefly populations in
tomato greenhouses was measured in the presence and absence of mullein (Verbascum …

Plant preference in relation to life history traits in the zoophytophagous predator Dicyphus hesperus

…, DR Gillespie, RR McGregor - Entomologia …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Heteroptera: Miridae) is an omnivorous predator used to control
pests of greenhouse vegetables. Plant preferences and life history traits were studied using …

Varicella in pediatric orthotopic liver transplant recipients

RS McGregor, BJ Zitelli, AH Urbach, JJ Malatack… - …, 1989 - publications.aap.org
From May 1981 to May 1984, 90 pediatric patients underwent liver transplantation and 65
patients survived as of May 1986. Two of the nonsurvivors died with complications related to …

Temperature-dependent survival and hatching rate of eggs of seven species of Coccinellidae

BD Frazer, RR McGregor - The Canadian Entomologist, 1992 - cambridge.org
The eggs of seven species of locally occurring coccinellids were reared at constant
temperatures. The survival of eggs to hatching, rate, and thermal requirements for hatching were …

Relevance of scale dependent approaches for integrating biophysical and socio-economic information and development of agroecological indicators

J Dumanski, WW Pettapiece, RJ McGregor - … at Different Scales” held 7–9 …, 1998 - Springer
Issues of environmental sustainability, limits to growth and opportunity, introduction of new
technology, and the economic and social costs of resource degradation have forced more …

Prey feeding increases water stress in the omnivorous predator Dicyphus hesperus

A Sinia, B Roitberg, RR McGregor… - Entomologia …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The effects of water stress (produced by water deprivation and prey feeding) on plant
feeding were investigated in the omnivorous predator Dicyphus hesperus Knight (Hemiptera: …

[BOOK][B] A wider view of the universe: Henry Thoreau's study of nature

RK McGregor - 2017 - books.google.com
Thoreau in his early career did not consider nature a worthy subject for his pen. Beginning
with only a superficial knowledge of nature--even while living at Walden Pond--he later began …

Scheduling algorithms for effective thread pairing on hybrid multiprocessors

RL McGregor, CD Antonopoulos… - 19th IEEE …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the latest high-end computing nodes combining shared-memory multiprocessing with
hardware multithreading, new scheduling policies are necessary for workloads consisting of …