Tag: Entomology

Researchers have discovered that insects leave tiny DNA traces on the flowers they visit; the newly developed eDNA method holds ...

Credit: Feldmeier, et al. (2018) Tungiasis, a tropical disease associated with poverty, is caused by the penetration of female sand ...

Credit: Barbara Driscoll The abilities of various bee species to disperse influences the pattern of their population's genetic structure, which, ...

Credit: Duvall et al./Cell Unlike humans, who usually get hungry again only a few hours after eating, a female mosquito ...

Credit: Alex Wild She weighs less than one ten-thousandth of an ounce and her top speed is less than two ...

The project is led by Professors Ranson and McCall at LSTM, in collaboration with Imperial College, and national medical research ...

Credit: David Agassiz, NHM A genus of deaf moth has evolved to develop an extraordinary sound-producing structure in its wings ...

Credit: Felix Ossig-Bonanno (2017) The discovery of a new to science species of rare and primitive arthropod from the depths ...

Researchers and industry leaders working to stop insecticide use during bloom COLUMBUS, Ohio - It's about time for the annual ...

Credit: Karl-Olof Bergman For pollinating butterflies, it is more important to be close to forests than to agricultural fields, according ...

Credit: Marc Chevrette MADISON - Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the ...

The discovery is the latest in a series of newly described species collected as part of the Taxon Expeditions initiative ...

Credit: (c) Institut Pasteur In a context of overuse of insecticides, which leads to the selection of resistant mosquitoes, it ...

Insect pollinators are vital to the existence of almost 90 percent of the world's flowering plants, including a large portion ...

Varroa mites do not feed on bee blood (hemolymph fluid) Research by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and ...

Asian longhorned ticks threaten livestock, but scientists need help telling them apart from two near-identical speciesCredit: Andrea Egizi and co-authors. ...

Also leave behind toxic residueCredit: Photo courtesy of Matt Bertone. Total release foggers, commonly known as "bug bombs," are ineffective ...

New evolutionary research could help explain color differences in other species, predict some animal survival and reproduction in warming climateCredit: ...

Research shows that rapid urbanization in São Paulo City, Brazil, is influencing wing morphology in the mosquitoes that transmit dengue ...

Tiny mutation enables worker bees to produce female offspringCredit: Michael Allsopp A small change in the genetic makeup of the ...