Insects

By PATRICK WHITTLE - Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The wild blueberry, Maine's most important fruit, could get some help fighting off a pest…

Supergenes can also complicate the process of mating. In some species, supergenes create a breeding system that in effect has four sexes. Because of a supergene in the North American birds…

The world’s deadliest animal is a picky eater. Because they transmit viral diseases like Zika and chikungunya, and the parasites that cause malaria, mosquitoes like blood-sucking Aedes…

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Jennie L. Durant, University of California, Davis(THE…

An ultra-low power collision detector, based on insects such as the locust seen here, can detect potential crashes,…

Mona From energy shots to brain boosters, there is a literal jump from how we think and go about our food. Year 2023 sees food from…

Native to East Asia, Jorōs are one of many so-called golden orb weavers, named after the shiny silk they use to spin webs (which can be a whopping 10 feet wide, by the way). The spider was …

For the current study, Tombak, then a PhD candidate at Princeton, and her team wanted to test stripe width to see if narrower ones might be even more repulsive to flies—a potential…

Proving that this way of producing pheromones works, and that they’re effective, has taken almost a decade. “We are now looking at scaling up the process and introducing them in the market,”…

A similar scenario played out in the 1990s, when a Tennessee naturalist named Lynn Faust read the confident published assertion of a scientist named Jon Copeland that there were no…