(Phys.org)—An international team of scientists has discovered the oldest record of arthropods—invertebrate animals that include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans—preserved in amber. The specimens, one fly and two ...
Archaeology
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A team of researchers from the University of Iowa and Rice University has found that crypt-keeper wasps parasitize multiple species of gall wasp. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Denmark have used CT scans and MRIs to see inside a python after it has swallowed a rat whole.
As the saying goes, "When life gives you lemons, turn that tartness into little translucent balls in which to grow your young." At least, that's how the saying goes for a tiny insect called a cynipid wasp, whose larvae were ...
Plants & Animals
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Early this spring, Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan stood in a patch of live oak scrub habitat in South Florida and scanned the trees for something he'd never seen outside his lab—a wispy, orange vine twining ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2018
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Those valley oak trees (Quercus lobata) in California's Central Valley have a lot of gall.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2011
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Biologists have found that blue tits, great tits and other native birds have learnt to peck away the tips of the galls formed by invading oak gall wasps and eat the juicy larvae inside, which are rich in protein. This helps ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2013
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The human liver fluke Clonorchis sinensis affects more than 35 million people in South East Asia and 15 million in China. Infection by this parasite causes clonorchiasis. Repeated or chronic infection can lead to serious ...
Biotechnology
Oct 24, 2011
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Climate change has led to warming temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, leading some insect species to expand their range into more northerly oak savannas, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2022
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Over time goldenrod plants and the gall flies that feed on them have been one-upping each other in an ongoing competition for survival. Now, a team of researchers has discovered that by detecting the plants' chemical defenses, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2020
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