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Amber specimen captures ancient chemical battle
It appears that chemical warfare has been around a lot longer than poison arrows, mustard gas or nerve weapons - about 100 million years, give or take a little. view more (2007-08-30)
Hopkins researchers develop new quick tool to sort out insect bites in children
Children afflicted with insect-bite rashes are often misdiagnosed or referred for extensive and costly tests, but a new, easy-to-remember set of guidelines developed at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center should help. view more (2006-06-29)
Chemical exchanges show wasps are bad losers
Wasps have more than just a sting in their tail according to new research published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they also carry the insect version of pepper spray in their heads, which they can release when fighting other wasps. view more (2006-11-20)
Panama butterfly migrations linked to El Niño, climate change
A high-speed chase across the Panama Canal in a Boston Whaler may sound like the beginning of another James Bond film-but the protagonist of this story brandishes a butterfly net and studies the effects of climate change on insect migrations at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. view more (2009-10-06)
Why Plants Talk To Insects - New Research from Imperial At Chelsea Flower Show (22-25 May)
Why talking to insects is so important to a plant's well-being is the theme of an unusual display at this year's Chelsea Flower show (22-25 May). The display, jointly staged by Imperial College at Wye and the ICI subsidiary, Quest International, will show how plants use scent and colour to attract helpful insects and to repel unwelcome herbivores.... view more... (2001-05-02)
Brain, behavior may have changed as social insect colonies evolved
A new study suggests that brain and behavior relationships may have changed in a profound way as larger, more complex insect societies evolved from smaller, simpler ones. view more (2006-11-16)
Well-traveled wasps provide hope for vanishing species
They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps are transporting pollen ten times further than previously recorded for any insect. view more (2009-11-10)
Experimental flu vaccine appears promising in early tests
An influenza vaccine produced with the use of insect cells appeared safe and produced an immunogenic response in healthy adults, suggesting promise as an alternative to using embryonated eggs for the development of influenza vaccine. view more (2007-04-11)
Bacteria for plague control in agriculture
Bacillus thuringiensis, a spore bacteria discovered in 1901 by the Japanese scientist Ishiwata and, ten years later, by the German scientist Berliner came across his findings. It is the micro-organism most used as a bio-insecticide throughout the world. It is a bacterium found naturally in ecosystems, frequently on floors and on the surface of... view more... (2003-02-14)
Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. view more (2006-08-25)
People only eat 1 when the chips are brown
Dr. Don Henne isn't wasting his degree when he's standing by the deep fryer waiting for potato slices to turn brown. He's conducting research that will help the potato industry and consumers. view more (2008-07-17)
Royal Entomological Society Awards For The Best Entomological Publications
The Royal Entomological Society have established a series of awards for the best papers published in their six scientific journals over the preceding two years. The winners are decided by the Editors and Editorial Board of each of three journals each year. This year the journals selected are: Agricultural and Forest Entomology - The following... view more... (2002-06-20)
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
Most scientists who create models trying to understand the mechanics and aerodynamics of insect flight have assumed that insect wings are relatively rigid as they flap. view more (2009-06-30)
New insect on Balearic Islands
After 10 years of biochemical and molecular analysis of the Tyrrhenoleuctra plecoptera that live in the Western Mediterranean, Spanish and Italian scientists have now demonstrated that one of the insect populations of this group is a distinct and, therefore, new species. view more (2009-07-16)
Why do some people get bitten by mosquitoes more than others?
Why is it that when you go on holiday some members of your family always seem to get bitten more than others? Researchers supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) think they may have found the answer and their work could lead to new types of insect repellent. view more (2005-01-12)
Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research. view more (2006-05-02)
Most widely used organic pesticide requires help to kill
The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a new study has found. view more (2006-09-26)
UA researchers find smallest cellular genome
The smallest collection of genes ever found for a cellular organism comes from tiny symbiotic bacteria that live inside special cells inside a small insect. view more (2006-10-13)
Repel the aphids and you attract the leafhoppers
Things don`t always turn out as you expect when you play with genes AN ATTEMPT to make potato plants resistant to sap-sucking insects has highlighted the unpredictability of genetic engineering. The modified plants unexpectedly turned out to be vulnerable to other kinds of insect pests, demonstrating how important it is to assess each transgenic... view more... (2002-05-29)
Do higher corn prices mean less adherence to ecological principles?
Expectations of higher corn prices are leading some farmers to neglect or ignore integrated pest management strategies, and their behavior could undermine the very technologies that sustain them, University of Illinois researchers report today at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston. view more (2007-08-22)
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