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Invasive stink bug habitat could expand greatly with climate change

A foul-smelling, voracious, wide-spread pest could become even more ubiquitous with climate change.

Ecology

Sep 26, 2022

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Newly identified fossil insect used 360-degree vision and sticky feet to find and snare its meals

With bulging eyes, an elongated mouth and feet that oozed resin, a fossil insect identified by Oregon State University research is so different from anything alive today that it needed to be placed in its own, extinct family.

Paleontology & Fossils

Aug 11, 2022

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Counting bug splats on vehicle license plates shows numbers of flying insects has dropped significantly

A team of researchers with the Buglife project, working with the Kent Wildlife Trust, has found evidence that suggests the number of flying insects in the U.K. has dropped significantly over the past several years. The group ...

Ecology

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May 6, 2022

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Ghostly monkey, succulent bamboo among new species in Mekong

A monkey with ghostly white circles around its eyes is among 224 new species listed in the World Wildlife Fund's latest update on the greater Mekong region.

Plants & Animals

Jan 26, 2022

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Human skin lipids found to repel bed bugs

University of Kentucky entomology researchers have found that skin triglycerides, or lipids, keep bed bugs from staying very long on human hosts. Their finding could lead to new management strategies for this important ...

Ecology

Dec 9, 2021

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Essential oils restore insecticide effectiveness against bed bugs

Bed bugs tuck themselves away into dark, unseen spaces and multiply rapidly, making them difficult to control. That job has gotten even harder in recent years as the pests have developed resistance to the insecticides long ...

Biochemistry

Apr 21, 2021

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Battling bugs help solve mysteries of weapon evolution

Remember "the first rule of Fight Club?" That's right: "You don't talk about Fight Club." Luckily, the rules of Hollywood don't apply to science. In new published research, University of Arizona researchers report what they ...

Plants & Animals

Feb 4, 2021

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50 million-year-old fossil assassin bug has unusually well-preserved genitalia

The fossilized insect is tiny and its genital capsule, called a pygophore, is roughly the length of a grain of rice. It is remarkable, scientists say, because the bug's physical characteristics—from the bold banding pattern ...

Paleontology & Fossils

Jan 19, 2021

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