Wingtips of certain species of silkmoth are structured to reflect sound and throw off attackers, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2021
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Moth scales, preserved in the mud of a coniferous forest lake, have been used to identify outbreaks of these insects over the past 10,000 years. This groundbreaking new technique, reported in the open-access journal Frontiers ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2018
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A new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology shows that radiation can be used to effectively sterilize the light brown apple moth (LBAM), an insect pest found in Australia, New Zealand, California, Hawaii, ...
Ecology
Nov 30, 2011
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Sometimes insects show signs of monster behavior.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2020
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A rare half-male and half-female butterfly has emerged at the Natural History Museum's Sensational Butterflies exhibition.
Plants & Animals
Jul 13, 2011
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating genes using the ...
Biotechnology
Feb 2, 2012
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Travelers to the neotropics -- the tropical lands of the Americas -- might be forgiven for thinking that all of the colorful insects flittering over sunny puddles or among dense forest understory are butterflies. In fact, ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2009
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(Phys.org)—Indiana University biologists Teiya Kijimoto, Justen Andrews and Armin Moczek say it's time to chalk another one up for doublesex, the master regulatory gene at the terminus of the sex determination pathway that ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2012
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A team of researchers working at Lund University in Sweden has found that despite their drab appearance in daylight, moths have a wide variety of bright coloring when viewed using an infrared camera. In their paper published ...
Scientists have discovered why climate change may be contributing to the decline of some British butterflies and moths, such as Silver-studded Blue and High Brown Fritillary butterflies.
Ecology
Oct 24, 2019
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