Scientists have found that a native British parasitoid wasp has been found to be very effective at controlling the shore flies that infest lettuce and celery greenhouses, damaging crops and annoying farmers.
Plants & Animals
Jul 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Weather and environmental change can bring alterations – and scarcity – in food resources. In looking at how such changes might affect mating choices and subsequent reproduction, University of Cincinnati ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 1, 2011
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Pity the poor female fruit fly. Being a looker is simply not enough, it seems. If you're to get a date, much less a proposal, you must also smell and act like a girl. Otherwise, you might just have a fight on your hands. ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 23, 2010
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Tech savvy humans who use social media sites to instantly update their 'statuses', may be behaving like vultures who use 'face flushing' as a visible way of instantly updating their own status when interacting with peers ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 6, 2010
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Falsely advertising one's fighting ability might seem like a good strategy for a wimp who wants to come off as a toughie, but in paper wasp societies, such deception is discouraged through punishment, experiments at the University ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2010
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Bands of chimpanzees violently kill individuals from neighboring groups in order to expand their own territory, according to a 10-year study of a chimp community in Uganda that provides the first definitive evidence for this ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of the black breast bib - the badge - and bill colour of male House Sparrows change over the course of the year. Such ornaments usually signal quality and dominance of a male to his conspecifics ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2010
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If you were a mouse, a mere whiff of a cat, rat or snake would be enough to send you into a fearful state. Your stress hormone levels would go up and you'd begin to take extra precautions, hugging the ground as you carefully ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2010
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Do nice guys finish last, or will the meek inherit the earth? A new study published in The American Naturalist suggests that, at least for birds, the right answer is somewhere in between.
Plants & Animals
May 13, 2010
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Thinking about a typical victim of college dating violence, you're probably imagining her, not him.
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2010
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