Threatened beetles benefit from forest thinning
Credit: Photo: Oskar Gran Wood-living beetles that use oak trees are a species-rich and threatened animal group in modern forestry ...
Tag: Entomology
Using fruit flies to identify new treatment for a colorectal cancer patient
A personalized platform identifies trametinib plus zoledronate for a patient with KRAS-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer Erdem Bangi and colleagues demonstrate ...
New coalition to bolster fight against ticks and mosquitoes
Stakeholder group will channel collective action for national vector-borne disease strategyCredit: (Tick) Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org; (Mosquito) ...
Preventive measures can reduce foot parasite in children, study says
Credit: Lynne Elson, 2013, CC BY 4.0 Tungiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by penetrated sand fleas which burrow ...
Making a meal of it: Mosquito spit protein controls blood feeding
Kanazawa University-led researchers show that inactivation of the mosquito salivary protein AAPP affects feeding on host blood, thus significantly reducing ...
Egg yolk precursor protein regulates mosquitoes' attraction to humans
Study is first to link mosquito feeding and reproduction to the egg yolk protein vitellogeninCredit: Elena Lusiardi Feeding mosquitoes sugar ...
Finnish researchers discover a new moth family
Credit: Pavel Gorbunov In a recently completed study, researchers of the Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus and their collaborators ...
Gold makes invisible surfaces visible in CT
Credit: Peter Ruehr, Markus Lambertz Today, the three-dimensional visualization and analysis of biological samples using computer tomography (CT) is a ...
More than 100 years of data show Pennsylvania tick population shift
Credit: Joyce Sakamoto/Penn State The prevalence of the most abundant species of ticks found in Pennsylvania has shifted over the ...
Fifteen years of mosquito data implicate species most likely to transmit West Nile virus in Iowa
Credit: Iowa State University News Service AMES, Iowa - A recently published study from Iowa State University medical entomologists found ...
Pest-killing fungi could protect NYS grapes, apples from invasive insect
Credit: Eric H. Clifton, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University-led research reports that two local fungal pathogens could potentially ...
Parasitoid wasps may turn spiders into zombies by hacking their internal code
Credit: Marcelo O. Gonzaga Setting off a startling chain of events, a parasitoid wasp can force a spider to weave ...
A four-way collaboration combatting fire ants
It was the summer of 2017 when fire ants made their landfall in mainland Japan. Two years later, reported detections ...
USF receives new NIH grant to help eliminate malaria in Southeast Asia
The University of South Florida will work with researchers in Thailand and Myanmar to assess whether mass treatment with the ...
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