Bacteria carried by mosquitos may protect them against pesticides
Common bacteria naturally transmitted between insects found to make them less susceptible to insecticides used to control their numbersCredit: University ...
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Beating the ‘billion-dollar bug’ is a shared burden
Study shows how individual farming practices associated with greater corn rootworm damage can have farther-reaching effectsCredit: Original image from Carol ...
Gene-editing produces tenfold increase in superbug slaying antibiotics
Credit: Dr Dino J. Martins Scientists have used gene-editing advances to achieve a tenfold increase in the production of super-bug ...
Unsure how to help reverse insect declines? Scientists suggest simple ways
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Entomologist Akito Kawahara's message is straightforward: We can't live without insects. They're in ...
Artificial intelligence puts focus on the life of insects
Scientists are combining artificial intelligence and advanced computer technology with biological know how to identify insects with supernatural speed.Credit: Photo ...
Knowledge of cycad branching behavior improves conservation
Guam's branched cycads less vulnerable to destruction by non-native insectCredit: Montgomery Botanical Center Research on cycad trees in Colombia, Guam, ...
Scientists developing new solutions for honeybee colony collapse
Grant establishes network of bee researchers at four UC campusesCredit: Boris Baer/UCR The University of California, Riverside, is leading a ...
Research shows rising lizard temperatures may change predator-prey relationship with snakes
Four decades of research on Japanese Izu Islands finds rising lizard temperatures may change predator-prey relationship with snakesCredit: Masami Hasegawa ...
Eurasian eagle owl diet reveals new records of threatened giant bush-crickets
Credit: Dragan Chobanov Bird diets provide a real treasure for research into the distribution and conservation of their prey, such ...
WVU mycologists receive National Geographic Explorers grant to study fungal diversity of millipedes
Credit: West Virginia University Millipedes represent some of the earliest known terrestrial animals and are highly understudied, but two West ...
Ecologist receives grant to study pollinator habitat in utility rights-of-way
Findings will help power companies promote ecosystem health in landscapes set aside for electric power delivery linesCredit: Courtesy Northern Arizona ...
Delicious and disease-free: scientists attempting new citrus varieties
$4.67 million helps put new fruits to the testCredit: Chandrika Ramadugu/UCR UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will ...
Model predicts where ticks, Lyme disease will appear next in Midwest states
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By drawing from decades of studies, scientists created a timeline marking ...
Brain gene expression patterns predict behavior of individual honey bees
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- An unusual study that involved bar coding and tracking the behavior ...
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