News tagged with beetle species
Protection sought for rare woodpecker
(AP) -- Smokey Bear has done such a good job stomping out forest fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of ...
May 02, 2012 |
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Bark beetle management and ecology in southern pine forests
Periodic outbreaks of bark beetles can cause annual losses of millions of dollars and pose serious challenges for forest managers, and the suppression of outbreaks is particularly difficult and expensive.
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Exotic manure is sure to lure the dung connoisseur
Although the preference of dung beetles for specific types and conditions of dung has been given substantial attention, little has been done to investigate their preference for dung from exotic mammals found on game farms ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Dung beetle diversity affects Florida livestock producers
Dung beetles are important to healthy cattle pasture ecosystems as they provide for nutrient recycling, removal of waste products from the soil surface and assist in the reduction of pestiferous flies.
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Invasive plant protects Australian lizards from invasive toad
An invasive plant may have saved an iconic Australian lizard species from death at the hands of toxic cane toads, according to research published in the March issue of The American Naturalist. It's an int ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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A novel hypothesis for beetle diversification -- Loss of flight promotes beetle diversification
Professor Teiji Sota, Department of Zoology at Kyoto University, and his group demonstrated that loss of flight has been the major driving force for beetle diversification. This finding has been published ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Predators hunt for a balanced diet
An international team of scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford in the UK, University of Sydney (Australia), Aarhus University (Denmark) and Massey University (New Zealand) based their research ...
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Misleading morphology: Three European parasitoid wasp 'species' are seasonal forms of just one
Three widely differing forms of European Scambus parasitoid wasps that had previously been regarded as distinct species are shown to be seasonal morphs of a single species. The collaboration involved National ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Unknown species and larval stages of extremely long-legged beetles discovered by DNA test
The unknown larval stages and a new species of the curious Spider Water Beetles were described after their assignment by DNA sequences. These taxonomic works are groundwork for the development of water quality ...
Oct 18, 2011 |
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Climate change downsizing fauna, flora: study
Climate change is reducing the body size of many animal and plant species, including some which supply vital nutrition for more than a billion people already living near hunger's threshold, according to a ...
Oct 16, 2011 |
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A living species of aquatic beetle found in 20-million-year-old sediments
The fossil beetle discovered in the 16-23 million years old sediments of the Irtysh River in southern Siberia belongs to the modern species Helophorus sibiricus, a member of the water scavenger beetles (Hydro ...
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Oct 06, 2011 |
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This beetle uses eggs as shields against wasps
(PhysOrg.com) -- New University of Arizona research has discovered that seed beetles from the desert Southwest shelter their broods from attacking parasitic wasps under a stack of dummy eggs.
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Spread of fungus-farming beetles is bad news for trees
(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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Jewel beetles, obtained from local people, turn out to be four species unknown to science
A team of researchers from the Czech University of Life Sciences discovered four new species of jewel beetles (Buprestidae) from South-eastern Asia. This family of beetles is named for their particularly beautiful body and ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Papuan weevil has screw-in legs
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research has found that humans were not the first species to invent the nut and bolt mechanism for screwing one thing to another: weevils do the same to attach their legs to their bodies ...
Jul 01, 2011 |
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