Flower size correlates with pollinator size, evolved independently among mountains
Credit: Tsubasa Toji, Shinshu University The morphological compatibility between flowers and insects was given in the famous textbook example of ...
Tag: Entomology
The ants, bees and wasps of Canada, Alaska and Greenland – a checklist of 9250 species
Credit: Henri Goulet Knowing what species live in which parts of the world is critical to many fields of study, ...
Bees thrive where it’s hot and dry: A unique biodiversity hotspot located in North America
Credit: Bruce D. Taubert The United States-Mexico border traverses through large expanses of unspoiled land in North America, including a ...
The secret life of bee signals can communicate colony health
Recording the electrostatic energy of honeybee hives offers a 'canary in the coalmine' look into ecosystem threats and environmental conditionsCredit: ...
Wasps are valuable for ecosystems, economy and human health (just like bees)
Credit: Professor Seirian Sumner, UCL Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to ...
Spring forest flowers likely key to bumble bee survival, Illinois study finds
Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a ...
The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by ...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within ...
Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers
In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an ...
Announcing the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award Winners
Credit: BioOne WASHINGTON, D.C. -- BioOne (about.BioOne.org) is proud to announce the winners of the 2021 BioOne Ambassador Award. These ...
OU Doctoral student’s research on fruit fly behavior earns award at international conference
Credit: Preston Larson Mehrnaz Afkhami, a doctoral biology student at the University of Oklahoma, was awarded the graduate student poster ...
Common plants and pollinators act as anchors for ecosystems
Credit: Julian Resasco The next time you go for a hike, take an extra moment to appreciate the seemingly ordinary ...
New amphibious centipede species discovered in Okinawa and Taiwan
Godly proportions for rare jade Scolopendra named after local gods, one of the largest arthropods in JapanCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
Silk moth’s diapause reverts back to ancestors’ through gene editing!?
Credit: Copyright © 2021, Kunihiro Shiomi, Shinshu University Diapause is a phenomenon in which animals and insects foresee changes in ...
Pandemic-inspired discoveries: New insect species from Kosovo named after the Coronavirus
Credit: Halil Ibrahimi While the new Coronavirus will, hopefully, be effectively controlled sooner rather than later, its latest namesake is ...
New Forest Service assessment delivers research on invasive species
Credit: USDA Forest Service MADISON, WI, April 8, 2021 - USDA Forest Service scientists have delivered a new comprehensive assessment ...
Can a 3D printed beetle model simulate the real thing?
Researchers assess the feasibility of using 3D printed insects in mating studiesCredit: Photo Courtesy: Huai-Jun Xue, Institute of Zoology, Chinese ...
‘Bug brain soup’ expands menu for scientists studying animal brains
By mashing up brains from various insect species, neuroscientists at the University of Arizona were able to count the neurons ...
Genome sequencing reveals a new species of bumblebee
Credit: Jennifer Geib While studying genetic diversity in bumblebees in the Rocky Mountains, USA, researchers from Uppsala University discovered a ...
Understanding fruit fly behavior may be next step toward autonomous vehicles
Could the way drosophila use antennae to sense heat help us teach self-driving cars make decisions?Credit: Gallio lab With over ...
