News tagged with leaf beetle

Inconspicuous leaf beetles reveal environment's role in formation of new species

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unnoticed by the nearby residents of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in the area have just provided some of the clearest evidence yet that ...

Biology / Evolution

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Satellite spies on tree-eating bugs

More than 150 years after a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar started taking over river banks throughout the U.S. Southwest, saltcedar leaf beetles were unleashed to defoliate the exotic invader.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0