Sex can be complicated at the best of times, but plants have an extra difficulty. If you're a plant who relies on insects to pollinate your flowers and reproduce, you will want your flowerstalks to be long. ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 17, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- About now, and possibly for the next few weeks only, is the time to see the impressive adult stag beetles in flight in the south of England.

Biology - Ecology

Jul 21, 2010 not rated yet 0

This month, fires have charred tens of thousands of acres in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. After more than a decade of drought, these large seasonal fires are increasingly a part of life in the Southwest, and fire can ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 27, 2010 3.7 / 5 (10) 0

The larvae of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera beetles wreak havoc on maize. Feasting on the plants' roots, they are estimated to cause $1 billion of damage every year in the US. Ted Turlings from the University of Neuchatel, Switze ...

Biology - Ecology

Jun 24, 2010 not rated yet 0

The coconut rhinoceros beetle continues to munch its way through the crowns of coconut trees on the northwest coast of Guam. Rhino hunters are ready to get tough with bio-control measures that will decrease ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 21, 2010 not rated yet 0

One way to keep from getting eaten is to run. But recent research at the University of Guam's Western Pacific Tropical Research Center shows that sometimes it's better to just hide.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 21, 2010 not rated yet 0

Inbred male sperm have been found to fertilise fewer eggs when in competition with non-inbred males according to a new study by the University of East Anglia.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 15, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Cambridge have found cracks in the long-standing theory that the number of eggs animals have -- and the size of those eggs -- is related to how much parental care they invest ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 08, 2010 4.8 / 5 (4) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests that jewel scarab beetles find each other -- and hide from their enemies -- using the same technology that creates the 3D effects for the blockbuster movie Avatar.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 14, 2010 4.7 / 5 (11) 4

Following months of gruelling tests and trials, scientists now reveal the World's strongest insect to be a species of dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 23, 2010 3.6 / 5 (7) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts from South Dakota State University and the nearby North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory watched helplessly as a colony of rare, captive lady beetles was lost in 2008, then ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2010 4.3 / 5 (6) 0 |

Geraniums may hold the key to controlling the devastating Japanese beetle, which feeds on nearly 300 plant species and costs the ornamental plant industry $450 million in damage each year, according to scientists with the ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 08, 2010 4 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dung beetles are among the few species in which the females are more impressively equipped with armor than males, and a new study explains why: the females fight each other for the best manure ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 04, 2010 4 / 5 (2) 2 |

The day when restaurants will serve garlic grasshoppers or beetle larva skewers is getting closer in Costa Rica, where scientists are "growing" insects for human consumption.

Biology - Other

Feb 03, 2010 2.5 / 5 (2) 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using motion sensitive video cameras has revealed how New Caledonian crows use tools in the wild, Oxford University scientists report.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 11, 2010 4.8 / 5 (6) 5