A new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology reports that live insects were found in 47% of firewood bundles purchased from big box stores, gas stations and grocery stores in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wy ...

Biology - Ecology

Oct 08, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2

Take a good look around on your next nature hike. Not only are you experiencing the wonders of the outdoors – you're probably also witnessing evolution in action.

Biology - Evolution

Oct 04, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 4 |

Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of Artificial Intelligence ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Oct 01, 2012 4.9 / 5 (7) 0 |

Tadpole shrimp are pests of rice production systems in California and have recently been found impacting Missouri and Arkansas rice fields. The shrimp feed on rice seedlings and uproot them during foraging, ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The apple flea weevil, a sporadic insect pest in the early 1900s, has reemerged as a severe pest in organic apple orchards in Michigan, where outbreak population levels have been observed since 2008, and ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Silent Spring, by marine biologist Rachel Carson, was first published 50 years ago this month, and two Perspective articles in the Ecology section of the journal Science examine the legacy of ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 28, 2012 4.2 / 5 (5) 4 |

The parasitic mite Varroa destructor is a major contributor to the recent mysterious death of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biolog ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 27, 2012 4.8 / 5 (11) 2 |

The green stink bug is one of the most damaging native stink bug species in the United States. Stink bugs feeding on cotton, soybeans, tomatoes, peaches, and other crops can result in cosmetic damage as well ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Writing in the journal PLoS One, the scientists have used a high resolution form of CT scanning to reconstruct two 305-million year old juvenile insects. Without the pioneering approach to ima ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 26, 2012 4.7 / 5 (6) 1 |

New England's moist, tree-friendly climate ensures that the region's forests will endure, but a parade of introduced pests and diseases also ensure that the region's 33 million acres of trees will continue ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

Artificially created salt marshes are no substitute for natural ones, hosting fewer kinds of plant and often ending up overrun by just a few species, scientists have shown.

Biology - Ecology

Sep 20, 2012 4.5 / 5 (4) 2 |

An international research team, led by Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences and BGI, has completed the sequencing, assembly and analysis of Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) genome—the first ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Sep 19, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

It isn't only birds that move south as autumn approaches. Some insects also live their lives on the same principle. A new study of migratory insects has just been published that shows that a considerably higher number of ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have recently shown that the legs of grasshoppers and crabs have the ideal shape to resist bending and compression. If human leg bones were built the same way, they ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 12, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 11 |

The first complete map of the ants' olfactory system has discovered that the eusocial insects have four to fives more odorant receptors—the special proteins that detect different odors—than other insects.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 10, 2012 not rated yet 0