New mobile element found in mosquito parasite has potential for disease control
Credit: Dennis Kunkel, Sarah Bordenstein and Robert Brucker WOODS HOLE, Mass. — Controlling mosquito-borne illnesses, such as Dengue or West ...
Tag: Entomology
Butterfly numbers down by two thirds
High-intensity agriculture reduces number of butterfly species in adjacent areasCredit: Jan C. Habel / TUM Meadows adjacent to high-intensity agricultural ...
Honey bee colonies more successful by foraging on non-crop fields
Credit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, March 20, 2019--Honey bee colonies foraging on land with a strong cover of clover species and ...
‘Insectageddon’ is ‘alarmist by bad design’: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws
Earlier this year, a research article triggered a media frenzy by predicting that as a result of an ongoing rapid ...
Food safety: Dung beetles and soil bacteria reduce risk of human pathogens
Credit: Matthew Jones, Washington State University Food safety regulations increasingly pressure growers to remove hedgerows, ponds and other natural habitats ...
When it comes to monarchs, fall migration matters
Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientists studying monarch butterflies have traditionally focused on two sources for their decline - ...
Honey bee gut microbiome research — NSF grant
Credit: Richard Fell, Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science ...
A repellent odor inhibits the perception of a pleasant odor in vinegar flies
Vinegar flies process conflicting odors in the brain by impairing the perception of good odors through neuronal interaction with noxious ...
Chemical innovation by relatives of the ice cream bean explains tropical biodiversity
Credit: Steve Paton, Smithsonian Tropical Research Constant pressure from hungry insects forces plants to innovate: producing new chemicals to protect ...
Novel methods for analyzing neural circuits for innate behaviors in insects
Credit: Kanazawa University Insects show a variety of species-specific innate behaviors (instinctive behaviors). For example, a worker honeybee that has ...
Researchers: Pesticides influence ground-nesting bee development and longevity
Study explores little-understood effects of soil exposure on subterranean coloniesCredit: Jesse Wallace, College of LAS at the University of Illinois ...
Mowing for monarchs
Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - You might think that mowing fields wouldn't benefit monarch butterfly populations. New research from ...
Unraveling the mystery of life: House fly edition
University of Houston biologist receives NSF CAREER award to explore sex determination of fliesCredit: University of Houston Richard Meisel, assistant ...
Two conferences to focus on citrus research and diseases that threaten citrus industry
More than 500 citrus researchers, regulators, and growers will gather at the convention center in downtown Riverside, Calif., March 10-15 ...
Study confirms horseshoe crabs are really relatives of spiders, scorpions
Credit: Courtesy of Jesús Ballesteros MADISON, Wis. -- Blue-blooded and armored with 10 spindly legs, horseshoe crabs have perhaps always ...
Impact of urbanization on wild bees underestimated
Credit: Paul Glaum ANN ARBOR--Wild bees are indispensable pollinators, supporting both agricultural productivity and the diversity of flowering plants worldwide. ...
BOHEMIA will develop a new vector control strategy to kill malaria-transmitting mosquitoes
Unitaid has awarded a US$25.3 million grant to the Barcelona Institute for Global Health for a project that seeks to ...
Mighty mites give scrawny beetles the edge over bigger rivals
Credit: University of Cambridge Smaller beetles who consistently lose fights over resources can gain a competitive advantage over their larger ...
Forecasting mosquitoes’ global spread
An international team gauges the coming threat of mosquito-borne diseasesCredit: Moritz Kraemer for Nature Microbiology; DOI: 10.1038/s41564-019-0376-y. Outbreaks of mosquito-borne ...
Dying trees in cities? Blame it on the pavement
Credit: Adam Dale A North Carolina State University study examining urbanization, scale-insect abundance and latitudinal warming on tree health in ...
