Photos
1. Orville G. Marti, Jr. collecting moths in French Guiana in 1987. The location of the site is along the road in the Kaw Mountains, about 3 km west of the village of Kaw. Three mercury vapor lights were used, one on each side of the sheet, and a third on a pole approximately 2 meters above the sheet. A gasoline-powered electric generator was used to power the bulbs, as well as the yellow bulb used in the camp.
2. This is a longitudinal section through a female Noctuidonema guyanense parasitizing an adult female fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda) collected in French Guiana.
3. This is a longitudinal section through a male Noctuidonema guyanense parasitizing an adult female fall armyworm moth (Spodoptera frugiperda) collected in French Guiana. Like the female in photo 2, this male is located between folds of external cuticle of the host's intersegmental membrane. It is not inside the body of the host. c=cuticle. a=nematode anterior end. fb=host fat body. arrows point to probable cuticular damage.
4. A male Acugutturus parasiticus, an ectoparasitic nematode of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana.
5. A female Acugutturus parasiticus, an ectoparasitic nematode of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana.
6. Noctuidonema sp., from Spodoptera litura.
7. Paenibacillus sp. immature stages developing in dead waxmoth larvae, Galleria mellonella. (See abstract, Marti & Timper, 1999, or PowerPoint presentation).
8. Paenibacillus sp. sporangia attached to the cuticle of infective juvenile Heterorhabditis sp. Low magnification. (See abstract, Marti & Timper, 1999).
9. Paenibacillus sp. sporangia attached to the cuticle of infective juvenile Heterorhabditis sp. High magnification. (See abstract, Marti & Timper, 1999)
10. Noctuidonema guyanense on Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm moth). Scanning EM image, courtesy of ElectroScan Corporation.
11. Endosymbiotic bacteria in gonads of female Noctuidonema guyanense from the fall armyworm moth, Spodoptera frugiperda. The first photo shows membrane-bound bacteria in a freshly-prepared squash of the nematode ovary. The second photo shows bacteria inside the ovary of a live female nematode.
12. Vampyronema sp. from Tandilia rodea. French Guiana, 30 July 1987.
13. Vampyronema sp. from Ptichodes agrapta. French Guiana, 11 August 1987.
14. Vampyronema ? sp. from an unknown Pyralidae. French Guiana, 1987.
15. Vampyronema sp. from Itomia opisthographa. French Guiana, 1987.
16. Vampyronema sp. from Zale fictilis. French Guiana, 1987.
17. Vampyronema sp. from Chrysodeixis chalcites. Fiji, 1995.
18. Vampyronema ? from Erinnys obscura (Sphingidae). French Guiana, 1987.
19. Noctuidonema sp. from Pseudaletia unipuncta. Spicule. Tifton, GA, 1989.
20. Noctuidonema guyanense from Spodoptera frugiperda.
21. Vampyronema ? sp. from Erinnys obscura. Spicule. French Guiana, 1987.
22. 2 unknown nematodes in femur of a cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii, Tifton, GA, 2002.
