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Mar. 22, 2023 —Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new study explains just how. Beyond ...
Feb. 23, 2022 —The Colorado potato beetle has evolved resistance to more than 50 different kinds of insecticides, making the insect a 'super pest' that wreaks havoc on potatoes around the world. New ...
May 19, 2021 —An ecologist investigates pest infestation in forests with mixed and monoculture tree ...
Sep. 27, 2022 —A recent study in Japan has found that reared ambrosia beetles, Euwallacea interjectus, can have symbiotic fungi different to those found in the wild. These findings suggest biocontrol implications ...
Apr. 19, 2021 —Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers seek to exploit beetles' greatest strength against them -- ...
June 17, 2021 —A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail, destroying home gardens, plantations and biodiversity as they surge through nearby Pacific ...
Nov. 4, 2020 —Ambrosia beetles are fascinating: they practice agriculture with fungi and they live in a highly developed social system. A biologist has now discovered new facts about ...
Feb. 23, 2023 —New research suggests aquatic plants can be utilized as a tool to enhance the co-existence between aquatic invertebrates and their fish predators in urban ...
Mar. 23, 2023 —The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web -- ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in ...
Sep. 29, 2021 —Researchers have successfully mapped the entire genome of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle. The breakthrough paves the way for new research into bark beetles and better prospects for effective pest ...