Small hive beetles are indigenous to Africa, but have been damaging beehives in the United States and Australia for several years. Rowan Sprague, a University of Virginia fourth-year student, wants to stop ...

Biology - Other

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

Insect or microbe: plants recognize their attackers and respond by producing specific internal signals that induce the appropriate chemical defenses. That is the main conclusion of a study at the Center for ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 1

Cattle could soon be vaccinated against an abortion-causing parasite, potentially saving the dairy and beef industries billions worldwide thanks to breakthrough Australian research.

Biology - Other

Mar 19, 2013 not rated yet 0

Parasitic plants, sworn enemy of many a farmer, can carry surprising benefits for wildlife, according to new research.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 18, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 1 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers from the University of Kentucky have identified 14 molecular markers in bedbug genes commonly associated with resistance to pyrethroid, the most popular pesticide used to control ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 15, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers, including LLNL physicist Matthias Frank and postdoc Mark Hunter, have for the first time used an ultra-intense X-ray laser to determine the previously unknown ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 14, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

Some birds use a different breeding strategy to others to avoid cuckoos infiltrating their nests, say scientists.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

A livestock feed supplement contaminated with human faeces is being blamed for an outbreak of parasite infection in a cattle feedlot in northwest NSW.

Biology - Other

Mar 07, 2013 not rated yet 0

Scientists have used genetic testing on animals that died of natural causes for the first time, potentially boosting efforts to save endangered species.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 05, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org) —A new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling "idiopathic brood disease syndrome" (IBDS), which kills off bee larvae, is the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 04, 2013 5 / 5 (7) 3 |

It is not just honey bees that are in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee seems to be disappearing in the Midwest.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 01, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Previous studies have shown that carnivores can have indirect positive effects on each other, which means that when one species is lost, others could soon follow. A team from the University of Exeter and the University of ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 0 |

Experts have disabled a unique member of the signalling proteins which are essential for the development of the malaria parasite. They have produced a mutant lacking the ancient bacterial Shewanella-like protein phosphatase ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 25, 2013 not rated yet 0

Knowing the temperatures that viruses, bacteria, worms and all other parasites need to grow and survive could help determine the future range of infectious diseases under climate change, according to new ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 25, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

(Phys.org)—The parasites that cause schistosomiasis, one of the most common parasitic infections in the world, are notoriously long-lived. Researchers have now found stem cells inside the parasite that ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Feb 23, 2013 4.3 / 5 (9) 1 |