While biocontrol agents come in different shapes, often taking a lot of time for scientists to research, test and produce, natural ones always seem to be the better option. Now that Drs. Taveras and Hansson have discovered ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2015
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Changes in land use negatively affect bee species richness and diversity, and cause major shifts in species composition, reports a recent study of native wild bees, conducted at the Sierra de Quila Flora and Fauna Protection ...
Ecology
Nov 1, 2018
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A parasitic wasp was recently discovered in Guanajuato, Mexico, where it was found to parasitize the eggs of an invasive stink bug, known as the bagrada bug, which is a major pest of cruciferous vegetables. A research team ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 18, 2019
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A myriad of species and genera new to science, including economically important wasps drawing immediate attention because of their amusing names and remarkable physical characters, in addition to work set to lay the foundations ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2018
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Little is known about the nesting activities of some lineages of megachiline bees. Dr. Sarah Gess, affiliated with both Albany Museum and Rhodes University, South Africa, and Peter Roosenschoon, Conservation Officer at the ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2017
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A new species of wasp was discovered on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus. Mymarommatoidea—a group of miniscule but very beautiful wasps, around 0.5 mm in length—had been emerging from branches of a banyan tree ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2022
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Thought to be Canada's most promising potential defense against the brown marmorated stink bug—a globally spreading agricultural pest native to Asia—the samurai wasp (another species from Asia and natural parasitoid of ...
Ecology
Feb 25, 2019
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Seemingly helpless against their much more lively natural enemies, plants have actually come up with a wide range of defences. In the present research, published in the open-access Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Dr. Adriana ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 2, 2015
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