Tag: Entomology

Study uses real insect flight trajectories to develop decision-making program for autonomous vehiclesCredit: Thomas Daniel lab, University of Washington, Seattle. ...

Princeton researchers find that division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes in ant societies.Credit: ...

Credit: Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) - Kees van Oers, Perro de Jong & Brechje van Beek It's no secret ...

Credit: Alexander Khramov, Gi-Soo Nam. New species was named Buccinatormyia gangnami, after a famous hit by a South Korean singer ...

Mosquitoes engineered to spread genes that stop malaria are efficient, but mutations can ariseCredit: Lauren Holden, Wellcome Collection When controlling ...

Credit: Selden et al. LAWRENCE -- Earlier this year, a remarkable new fossil specimen was unearthed in the Lower Cretaceous ...

Lacewing larvae are able to detoxify plant toxins too, but in a different manner as their prey: Caterpillars of the ...

Credit: Dr Chris Watson The researchers combined data across North America and Europe using a meta-analysis, a way of aggregating ...

Credit: Photo by Daryl Halliwell DNA-based biomonitoring relies on species-specific segments of organisms DNA for their taxonomic identification and is ...

Researchers in the department of entomology at the University of Illinois have shown how a species of ant uses its ...

Insects in torrential rivers may inspire engineering solutionsCredit: Victor Kang The aquatic larvae of the net-winged midge have the unique ...

Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Extracting nectar from flowers that may be dancing in the wind requires precise, millisecond timing ...

Credit: Prof. Steve Tor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Tsetse flies infest an estimated 10 million square kilometers of sub-Saharan ...

Credit: Jessica Burrows The study simulated Chernobyl-levels of radiation exposure in a laboratory to investigate the impacts it may be ...