Researchers are exploring how to turn weeds into feed for farmed insects, creating protein for food and livestock feed while producing natural fertilizer. A new review suggests a circular agriculture ...
A tractor-mounted vacuum successfully removed many crop-damaging insects in field tests, offering farmers a promising, ...
A new high-throughput respiration-measuring system lets scientists monitor up to 240 insects and other invertebrates at once, making it far easier to study insects' resting metabolic rates and how ...
A new study across South America finds New World screwworm flies thrive in warm, moist regions and may persist through ...
A new study across South America finds New World screwworm flies thrive in warm, moist regions and may persist through wildlife reservoirs. Researchers raise concerns about surveillance gaps and the ...
The boom in backyard beekeeping in recent years has been great news for at least one group of fellow hymenopterans: yellowjackets. Honey bees are high on the menu of insects on which yellowjackets ...
Spongy moths (Lymantria dispar) are one of the most impactful invasive forest pests in North America. The one silver lining is that adult females of the subspecies here cannot fly. However, several ...
An Aedes aegypti mosquito with an abnormally large blood meal (left) next to typical engorged mosquito (right) for comparison. (Photo by Perran Ross, Ph.D. By Perran Ross, Ph.D. Perran Ross, Ph.D. An ...
In the Journal of Biomechanics, researchers report that the neck joint of a common American field ant can withstand pressures up to 5,000 times the ant’s weight. “Ants are impressive mechanical ...
Invasive insect and arthropod species make for a lot of scary headlines—think emerald ash borer, spotted lanternfly, and Asian longhorned tick, just to name a few. But success stories in ...
Veterinary medicine has always included insects, but only recently have veterinarians started actually treating insects. The earliest documented case of treating diseases vectored by insects dates ...
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