Insect and Butterfly News

Posted May 9, 2008:

• Invasion Of The Spiny Water Fleas: Drying Anchor Lines Can Help Contain Spread

Posted May 8, 2008:

• Seagulls: Are Males The Weaker Sex?
• Screw Worm Outbreak In Yemen

Posted May 6, 2008:

• Dinosaur Bones Reveal Ancient Bug Bites
• New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators
• Trouble In Paradise: Global Warming A Greater Danger To Tropical Species

Posted May 4, 2008:

• Cholera Study Provides Exciting New Way Of Looking At Infectious Disease
• Bees Disease: One Step Closer To A Cure

Posted April 28, 2008:

• Chinese Ants Show Promise For Fighting Arthritis, Other Diseases
• A First: Researchers Apply Efficient Coding Principle To Sense Of Smell
• Pathway Found That Lets Mosquitoes Fatten Up, Slow Down For Winter

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Insects Use Plants Like A Telephone

Posted April 25, 2008:

• Fruit-eating Bats Eat Dirt To Detoxify Bad Parts Of Vegetables

Posted April 14, 2008:

• Discovery Of Link In Mosquito Mating Mechanism Could Lead To New Attack On Dengue And Yellow Fever
• Fly Is At Home On A Crab, With New Evolutionary Neighbors
• Fungus Fight: Researchers Battle Against Dangerous Corn Toxin

Posted April 11, 2008:

• Flowers' Fragrance Diminished By Air Pollution, Study Indicates

Posted April 10, 2008:

• Playing Dead Works For Young FIre Ants Under Attack

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Double Trouble With Insecticide-resistant Mosquitoes
• Creating Homes That Please America's Wild Bees

Posted April 7, 2008:

• High-flying Moths Don't Just Go With The Flow
• Bats Play A Major Role In Plant Protection
• Laurel Wilt Of Redbay And Sassafras: Will Avocados Be Next?
• Gypsy Moth Management Made More Efficient, Cost-effective

Posted April 6, 2008:

• Darwin Was Right: Natural Selection Speeds Up Speciation

Posted April 5, 2008:

• The Bombardier Beetle, Power Venom, And Spray Technologies
• Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Common Weed, Ayurvedic Nightshade, Deadly For Dengue Mosquito

Posted April 2, 2008:

• China's Economic Boom Sparks Biological Invasions

Posted March 31, 2008:

• Armed Beetles Find A Mate, Whatever Their Size
• Small Desert Beetle Found To Engineer Ecosystems

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Red Flour Beetle's Genome Sequenced For The First Time
• Fruit Fly Phlebotomy Holds Neuroscience Promise

Posted March 25, 2008:

• Ants Are Experienced Fungus Farmers
• Environmentally-Friendly Controls For Peach Tree Pests
• Insects Take A Bigger Bite Out Of Plants In A Higher Carbon Dioxide World

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Color Vision System Independent Of Motion Detection in Eye Sight

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Royal Jelly Makes Bee Queens, Boosts Nurture Case
• Tiny Wasp Used To Wipe Out Major Agricultural Pest In Tahiti

Posted March 18, 2008:

• Hissing Cockroaches Are Popular, But They Also Host Potent Mold Allergens

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Royal Corruption Is Rife In The Ant World

Posted March 16, 2008:

• Early Bird Doesn't Always Get The Worm

Posted March 15, 2008:

• Insecticide Combo Delivers Knockout Punch

Posted March 14, 2008:

• Chemicals Like DEET In Bug Spray Work By Masking Human Odors

Posted March 13, 2008:

• Cooperation Between Figs, Wasps And Parasites Proves Three Is Not Always A Crowd

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Which Came First, Social Dominance Or Big Brains? Wasps May Tell

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Compound Safely Quells Bee-Killing Chalkbrood
• Mystery Behind The Strongest Creature In The World

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