Efforts to conserve biodiversity in the UK, Belgium and Netherlands may be working, despite the widespread perception that wildlife is in terminal decline, a new study suggests.

Biology - Ecology

May 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Two new species of cave-dwelling short-tailed whipscorpions have been discovered in northeastern Brazil, and are described in research published May 22 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Adalberto Santos ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 22, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

(AP)—Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating.

Biology - Other

May 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

The large-scale production of edible insects is unavoidable in order to continue feeding the ever-increasing global population and providing them with enough animal protein. Insect farming can be compared ...

Biology - Ecology

May 10, 2013 4.6 / 5 (9) 3 |

It may be easier to show concern about cuddly animals like bees than about some of the millions of indigenous insect and microorganisms found in the European biodiversity.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

An entomologist at the University of California, Riverside discovered a new wasp species in Russia and named it after the university, commonly abbreviated as UCR.

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound environmental, human health and ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 22, 2013 not rated yet 0

We might be what our bacteria eat, says a Cornell entomology professor, who is using the tiny fruit fly to investigate this gutsy idea.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 18, 2013 not rated yet 1

Ypsolophid moths are a peculiar group of Lepidoptera that attracts attention with their strange preference for a pose of rest. To take a break adult Ypsolophids like to go bottom up with antennae stretche ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 16, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Researchers from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London (Thanit Siriboon, Chirasak Sutcharit, Fred Naggs and Somsak Panha) discovered many new taxa of the brightly coloured ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 15, 2013 4.8 / 5 (4) 0

The genus Megachile is a cosmopolitan group of solitary bees, often called leafcutter bees. This is one of the largest genera of bees, with well over 1,500 species in over 50 subgenera. A new species, Meg ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 04, 2013 not rated yet 1

It can take years of direct observation for a researcher to fully understand the diets of a community of herbivorous insects in a tropical rain forest. Now, five Smithsonian scientists are paving a fast track ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists from CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have teamed up with Kimberley Traditional Owners to test a new molecular technique that has the potential to revolutionise the discovery of new ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 25, 2013 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org) —Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture have identified 14 molecular markers in bed bugs that allow them to be resistant to pyrethroid insecticides. Pest control professionals ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 15, 2013 3 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists already knew that some social bee species warn their conspecifics when detecting the presence of a predator near their hive, which in turn causes an attack response to the possible predator. Researchers ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 14, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0