This gorgeous moth is an invasive plant's worst nightmare
Taming an invasive plant that's 8 feet tall and poisonous is no small feat, especially if you're a tiny moth.
Taming an invasive plant that's 8 feet tall and poisonous is no small feat, especially if you're a tiny moth.
Plants & Animals
Jun 15, 2015
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As night closes in across Kentucky a small chubby spider makes a silk line between two plants. She then moves along her "trapeze wire" and waits. After a while a moth approaches within range, and the spider unleashes a swinging ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2016
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The European gypsy moth, introduced to North America in 1869 near Boston, Mass., has steadily spread from there, devastating forests from eastern Canada to Wisconsin to North Carolina and thwarting all attempts at control. ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2011
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A genus of deaf moth has evolved to develop an extraordinary sound-producing structure in its wings to evade its primary predator the bat. The finding, made by researchers from the University of Bristol and Natural History ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 5, 2019
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The first complete map of the ants' olfactory system has discovered that the eusocial insects have four to fives more odorant receptors—the special proteins that detect different odors—than other insects.
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2012
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A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has discovered how tobacco hawkmoths are able to detect odors that are important to them against a complex olfactory background. By looking at the specific ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2022
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A six-year campaign to control invasive winter moths with a natural parasite led by entomologist Joe Elkinton of the University of Massachusetts Amherst now has concrete evidence that a parasitic fly, Cyzenis albicans, has ...
Ecology
Sep 7, 2011
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(Phys.org)—Honeybees never cease to amaze us... their bite contains a natural anesthetic. This discovery was made by a team of Greek and Cypriot researchers, in collaboration with the CNRS Laboratoire Evolution, Génomes ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2012
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Some animals form characteristic infertile spermatozoa called parasperm, which differ in size and shape compared to fertile sperm produced by single males. Species that have been reported to produce parasperm include snails, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2019
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In just 10 weeks a team of Canadian researchers has succeeded in 'barcoding' 28,000 moth and butterfly specimens or about 65 per cent of Australias 10,000 known species held at CSIRO's Australian National ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2011
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