News tagged with bug populations

How Bed Bugs Outsmart the Chemicals Designed to Control Them

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bed bugs, once nearly eradicated in the built environment, have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers such as New York City. In the first study to explain the failure to control certain ...

Biology /

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Discovery of pine beetles breeding twice in a year helps explain increasing damage, researchers say

(PhysOrg.com) -- Long thought to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations per year, dramatically increasing the ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0