Aeolesthes sarta - Many insects are specialized feeders, but aeolesthes sarta, a tree boring insect, is a polyphagous insect, a term describing an insect able to feed on several types of food. Aeolesthes sarta can fly, but rarely does. They tend to stay within a small area, sometimes limiting themselves to one single tree. Natural distribution is therefore limited and localized. Several hundred generations can develop and mature on the same tree until the tree eventually dies.
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The Tajik people gradually fell under Russian domination during the 1860’s. The Russian Revolution of 1917 sparked a brief independence and protest struggle known as the Basmachi Movement in denouncing the conscripting of Tajik men to fight for Imperial Russia during World War I. By 1920, the movement was crushed and Tajikistan was incorporated into the Soviet Union as the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic. Following the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tajikistan became independent.
