Researchers from the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center Frankfurt have uncovered the factors that determine the enormous diversity of herbivorous insects.
Evolution
Aug 3, 2023
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A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, shows in a new study how leaf beetles could successfully use new and previously indigestible food sources in the course of evolution. The ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2022
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For home gardeners and farmers, herbivorous insects present a major threat to their hard work and crop yields. The predator insects that feed on these bugs emit odors that pests can sense, which changes the pests' behavior ...
Agriculture
Aug 25, 2021
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The intensification of land use poses a major threat to biodiversity, including herbivorous insects and their host plants. If beetles, Orthoptera (grasshoppers/crickets), Heteroptera (true bugs) and Auchenorrhyncha (cicadas/leafhoppers/treehoppers/planthoppers/spittlebugs) ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2021
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The world is getting warmer and warmer—and many organisms native to lower latitudes or elevations are moving higher.
Ecology
Dec 17, 2020
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Increasing plant diversity enhances the natural control of insect herbivory in grasslands. Species-rich plant communities support natural predators and simultaneously provide less valuable food for herbivores. This was found ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2020
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Plants in dense tropical forests are able to mask their chemical scents in order to avoid being detected and eaten by insects—a key advantage in the "information arms race" between themselves and plant-eating herbivores, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2020
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When she set out to understand whether climate changes over the past century might be effecting how much insects were eating various plants, Emily Meineke decided to go straight to the source—the plants themselves.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2018
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Insects are picky eaters, and not the voracious eat-everything-in-sight bingers that devour all the plants in your garden.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2015
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Spider silk is light and delicate, while incredibly resilient and tear-resistant. Understanding the structure and way of construction of these threads is a challenge taken up by a research team of Kiel University. The scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2014
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