The mature larva of the European melandryid species Anisoxya fuscula (ILL.) is described and illustrated. The larva lives in dead thin twigs of various deciduous trees. The knowledge of morphology of imagines is completed by drawings of the male and female copulative organs.
Sensitivity of imagines and larvae of the lesser mealworm to selected species and strains of entomopathogenic nematodes was studied in a pine sawdust litter on which chicken were kept from one to six weeks according to their production cycle (Niemiec 1998). The following nematode species and strains were used: S. feltiae from bioinsecticides Ovinema and Nemaplus, S. affinis, S. carpocapsae and H. bacteriophora strain Brecon. S. feltiae from biopreparation Ovinema appeared most invasive to the larvae and imagines of A. diaperinus.
Mainly on the basis of the author's own field studios, carried out in the Tenczyński Scenic Park, situated in the Cracow Upland (southern Poland), during 2000-2002, the trophic relations of adults of 39 species of Cerambycidae arc presented. These species are grouped into 4 trophic categories: consumers of pollen and other parts of flowers; consumers of green parts of plants; consumers of bark, phloem and xylem; and consumers of fungi.