(PhysOrg.com) -- When a scientist discovers a new species, one of hardest tasks is naming it. A Cornell researcher faced this challenge many times over when he discovered 11 new U.S. sweat bee species (subgenus ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Nov 15, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

It's difficult to find much unused table space in Michael Kanost's office. The university distinguished professor and head of the department of biochemistry has nearly all of it claimed by stacks of folders ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 28, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nine-spotted ladybug, New York's official state insect, was feared to be extinct in this state until citizen scientists rallied to Cornell's call to help look for it. Several nine-spotted ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Oct 04, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The creation of compounds that disrupt a worldwide pest's winter sleep hints at the potential to develop natural and targeted controls against crop-eating insects, new research suggests.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0 |

For the first time, researchers have identified how cabbage looper caterpillars in the field develop resistance to the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which naturally occurs in the soil and on plants ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 30, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A warrior wasp? A wasp with jaws longer than its front legs? The new species of wasp that Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Aug 22, 2011 not rated yet 1

A Kansas State University genomicist is hoping an old potato chip slogan -- "betcha can't eat just one" -- will become the mindset of researchers when it comes to sequencing insect genomes.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jul 29, 2011 not rated yet 0

With Memorial Day weekend approaching and temperatures across the nation steadily increase to summertime highs, thoughts turn to picnics, ballgames -- and bug bites. Now, a new way of stopping mosquitoes could ...

Biology - Other

May 27, 2011 4.3 / 5 (3) 2 |

As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic insecticidal corn, many researchers ...

Biology - Ecology

May 05, 2011 not rated yet 1

Most people realize only too late that strange new bugs are killing their garden plants, or that their favorite hiking trail is choked out with thistles. At an estimated cost of $3 billion per year to the state of California, ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 19, 2011 4 / 5 (1) 0

When your family members gather at a picnic in your backyard, there may be 10 to 20 people -- maybe more -- enjoying your barbecue.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 18, 2011 not rated yet 0

In just six years, bacteria in the genus Rickettsia spread through a population of the sweet potato whitefly (Bemisia tabaci), an invasive pest of global importance. Infected insects lay more eggs, develo ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 07, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 1 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the US and UK have discovered four new species of parasitic fungi in the Brazilian rainforests. The fungi attack four distinct species of ants and release mind-altering chemicals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 04, 2011 4.8 / 5 (25) 28 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Antibiotics are frequently used on commercial hog farms not only to fight disease, but also to help pigs gain weight faster. New research from North Carolina State University and Kansas State University shows ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Jan 28, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a one-of-its-kind flight arena, University of Arizona entomologist Goggy Davidowitz and his group study how giant hawk moths use energy resources for two of nature's most costly evolutionary ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 06, 2011 not rated yet 0