Bees? Please. These plants are putting ants to work
In a world first, Edith Cowan University (ECU) researchers have discovered a plant that has successfully evolved to use ants ...
Tag: Entomology
Infected insects may warn of impending citrus disease a year in advance
Credit: Plant Disease Citrus greening disease (Huanglongbing of HLB), transmitted by the Asian citrus psyllid, is currently the biggest threat ...
Disjunct distribution across the equator
A new riffle beetle from Kyushu, JapanCredit: Pensoft publishing The family Elmidae (riffle beetles) is well studied and the existence ...
Milkweed, only food source for monarch caterpillars, ubiquitously contaminated
Harmful pesticides found in Western Monarch breeding groundCredit: Photo by Angela Laws, Xerces Society. RENO, Nev. - New evidence identifies ...
Recycling old genes to get new traits — How social behavior evolves in bees
Credit: Callum Kingwell A team working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found evidence to support a long-debated mode ...
Volcanic glass spray shows promise in controlling mosquitoes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Roe, NC State University. An indoor residual spray made by combining a type of volcanic ...
Study links malaria risk in deforestation hotspots to demand for agricultural commodities
The international trade in timber, tobacco, cocoa, coffee and cotton accounts for a high proportion of malaria risk in exporter ...
Asian tiger mosquito gains ground in Illinois
Credit: Photo by James Gathany/CDC CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers report that the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, has become more ...
New evidence on bed bug burden in urban neighborhoods
UMass Amherst researcher and team see more risk of bed bugs in poorer, crowded urban areasCredit: Charles Kremenak AMHERST, Mass. ...
Project to introduce a coconut rhinoceros beetle disease in Guam gets $240,000 grant
Credit: University of Guam The Office of Insular Affairs (DOI-OIA) of the U.S. Department of the Interior has awarded $239,994 ...
Superworms digest plastic, with help from their bacterial sidekicks
Credit: Adapted from Environmental Science & Technology 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c01495 Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that ...
Honeybees: Pesticides disrupt nursing behavior and larval development
Unique long-term videos show the bee nursery in the hiveCredit: Paul Siefert/Bee Research Institute Oberursel/Goethe University Frankfurt A newly developed ...
Bumblebees speed up flowering
Credit: Photograph: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich Spring has sprung earlier than ever before this year, accompanied by temperatures more ...
Peculiar behavior of the beetle Toramus larvae
How and why do they carry their exuviae?Credit: The Coleopterists Society The beetles of family Erotylidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) are morphologically ...
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