(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.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 14, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 2 |

(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 ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 01, 2011 4.2 / 5 (13) 15 |

Once introduced for biological pest control, Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis populations have been increasing uncontrollably in the US and Europe since the turn of the millennium. The species has been p ...

Biology - Ecology

May 16, 2013 4.3 / 5 (3) 0 |

Evolution, often perceived as a series of random changes, might in fact be driven by a simple and repeated genetic solution to an environmental pressure that a broad range of specieshappen to share, according ...

Biology - Evolution

Oct 25, 2012 4.3 / 5 (7) 11

Canada has eradicated the destructive Asian Long-Horned Beetle first detected in the Toronto area a decade ago after hitching a ride across the Pacific in wood packaging materials.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 05, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 3

Researchers from Lund University and the University of Oxford have been able to provide one answer as to why males in many species still provide paternal care, even when their offspring may not belong to ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 26, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 5 |

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 ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 06, 2011 4.7 / 5 (7) 7 |

Are plant-pollinator networks holding together as the insects and plants in the network are jostled by climate change and habitat loss?

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Visitors to the world's oceans are likely to find a wide variety of bioluminescent creatures, especially as they descend to depths where sunlight can't reach. The ability to glow has evolved ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 23, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

(Phys.org) -- The famous biologist Stephen J. Gould once asked: If we rerun the tape of life, would the outcome of evolution be the same? For years, scientists have questioned whether evolution is predictable, ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows for the first time that episodes of reduced precipitation in the southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-02 drought, greatly accelerated development ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

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 ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 16, 2011 3.9 / 5 (18) 21

A rare and unusual new species of yeast has been identified at three separate locations across the world, reported in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The findings sugges ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 12, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

By examining art printed from woodblocks spanning five centuries, Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has identified the species responsible for making the ever-present wormholes ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 20, 2012 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

"What has six legs and is way cooler than a spider?" asks a riddle on the cover of a birthday card sent to Stephen Colbert by entomologists Quentin Wheeler at Arizona State University and Kelly Miller at the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 06, 2009 5 / 5 (6) 6