It sounds like the plot of the world's tiniest horror movie: deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a newly discovered species of wasp transforms a "social" spider into a zombie-like drone that abandons its colony to do the wasp's ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 27, 2018
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Marvel comics superheroes Ant-Man and the Wasp—nom de guerre stars of the eponymous 2018 film—possess the ability to temporarily shrink down to the size of insects, while retaining the mass and strength of their normal ...
General Physics
Nov 18, 2018
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An international team led by the astrophysicist Carolina von Essen, has used the OSIRIS spectrograph on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) to study the chemical composition of a planet whose equilibrium temperature is around ...
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2018
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In the paper 'First discovery of adventive populations of Trissolcus japonicus', published in the Journal of Pest Science, the CABI scientists outline how—after a survey of native egg parasitoids of the brown marmorated ...
Ecology
Nov 2, 2018
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Rick Grimes has nothing on the humble American cockroach when it comes to avoiding zombification.
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2018
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Climate-warming affects farmlands by increasing pests but not their natural predators, resulting in reduced crop yields, new research has revealed.
Plants & Animals
Oct 23, 2018
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Next time you're stung by a wasp or a honeybee, consider the elegantly designed stinger that caused you so much pain.
Plants & Animals
Oct 9, 2018
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Researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge have shed light on why some species cannot tell the difference between their own offspring and those of intruders that have been slipped into their nests.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2018
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A lack of understanding of the important role of wasps in the ecosystem and economy is a fundamental reason why they are universally despised whereas bees are much loved, according to UCL-led research.
Plants & Animals
Sep 18, 2018
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As many as twenty-one species of parasitoid wasps are described as new to science, following the first ever revision of their genus since its establishment back in 1893.
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2018
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