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Bethia H. King is affiliated with Northern Illinois University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a dominant emphasis on Insect Science. The scientist has contributed significantly to several subfields including Plant Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology.

The body of work covers various topics related to insects, their behavior, and their control, addressing areas such as Insect and Pesticide Research, Insect Pest Control Strategies, and Insect behavior and control techniques. Additional topics include Insect Utilization and Effects, Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, and Plant and animal studies.

The following recently published papers reflect the scope and areas of their research activity:

  • Oral and Topical Insecticide Response Bioassays and Associated Statistical Analyses Used Commonly in Veterinary and Medical Entomology, 2020, Journal of Insect Science
  • Gustation in insects: taste qualities and types of evidence used to show taste function of specific body parts, 2023, Journal of Insect Science
  • Toxicity of fluralaner, a companion animal insecticide, relative to industry-leading agricultural insecticides against resistant and susceptible strains of filth flies, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Gustation Across the Class Insecta: Body Locations, 2023, Annals of the Entomological Society of America
  • Diet and Nutrition of Adult Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), a Parasitoid of Filth Flies, 2021, Environmental Entomology

King has published frequently in the following scientific journals:

  • Journal of Insect Science (5 publications)
  • Environmental Entomology (2 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (1 publication)
  • Annals of the Entomological Society of America (1 publication)
  • Journal of Applied Entomology (1 publication)

The scientist has collaborated with multiple coauthors on several projects. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Edwin R. Burgess (6 joint publications)
  • Panchalie B Gunathunga (5 joint publications)
  • Christopher J. Geden (3 joint publications)
  • Elizabeth E Taylor (3 joint publications)
  • Anna E Grimenstein (2 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Offspring Sex Ratios in Parasitoid Wasps

    Bethia Hurlbutt King

  • Sex-ratio manipulation in response to host size by the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni: a laboratory study.

    Bethia Hurlbutt King

  • Sex ratio manipulation by parasitoid wasps.

    B. H. King;D. L. Wrensch;M. A. Ebbert

  • Host-size-dependent sex ratios among parasitoid wasps: does host growth matter?

    B. H. King

  • Unattractiveness of mated females to males in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

    B. H. King;K. B. Saporito;J. H. Ellison;R. M. Bratzke

  • Associative Learning in Response to Color in the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    S. E. Oliai;B. H. King

  • Offspring sex ratio response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

    M. E. Napoleon;B. H. King

  • Proximal mechanisms of the sex ratio and clutch size responses of the wasp Nasonia vitripennis to parasitized hosts

    Bethia H. King;Samuel W. Skinner

  • Male mating history: effects on female sexual responsiveness and reproductive success in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

    B. H. King;C. R. Fischer;C. R. Fischer

  • Flight activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    Bethia King

  • Sex ratio manipulation in response to host size in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia cameroni: is it adaptive?

    Bethia H. King;Richard B. King

  • Sex ratio manipulation by the parasitoid waspSpalangia cameroni in response to host age: A test of the host-size model

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  • Variation in Propensity to Exhibit Thanatosis in Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    B. H. King;H. R. Leaich

  • Associative Learning of Color by Males of the Parasitoid Wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    J. M. Baeder;B. H. King

  • Breeding Strategies in Females of the Parasitoid Wasp Spalangia endius : Effects of Mating Status and Size

    B. H. King

  • A Field Study of Host Size Effects on Sex Ratio of the Parasitoid Wasp Spalangia cameroni

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  • How do female parasitoid wasps assess host size during sex-ratio manipulation?

    Bethia H. King

  • Test of the adaptiveness of sex ratio manipulation in a parasitoid wasp

    Bethia H. King;Hilary E. Lee

  • Effect of host density on offspring sex ratios and behavioral interactions between females in the parasitoid waspNasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    Bethia H. King;Mary L. Crowe;Samuel W. Skinner

  • Effects of Age and Burial of House Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) Pupae on Parasitism by Spalangia cameroni and Muscidifurax raptor (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    B. H. King

  • Sex ratio response to conspecifics in a parasitoid wasp: test of a prediction of local mate competition theory and alternative hypotheses

    B. H. King

  • Offspring Sex Ratio and Number in Response to Proportion of Host Sizes and Ages in the Parasitoid Wasp Spalangia cameroni (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

    B. H. King

  • Effects of mating on female locomotor activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae).

    B. H. King;K. M. Grimm;H. E. Reno

  • SEX-RATIO MANIPULATION BY THE PARASITOID WASP MUSCIDIFURAX RAPTOR IN RESPONSE TO HOST SIZE.

    Sandra E. Seidl;Bethia King

  • Sex ratio and oviposition responses to host age and the fitness consequences to mother and offspring in the parasitoid wasp Spalangia endius

    B. H. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert S. T. Linforth
Robert S. T. Linforth University of Nottingham
Ian C.W. Hardy
Ian C.W. Hardy University of Helsinki
Hans Robert Kalbitzer
Hans Robert Kalbitzer University of Regensburg
Jeffrey G. Scott
Jeffrey G. Scott Cornell University
Stefan Schulz
Stefan Schulz Technische Universität Braunschweig
Joachim Ruther
Joachim Ruther University of Regensburg

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