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July 29, 2021 New research has identified a 100-million-year-old weevil unlike any other known fossilized or living ...
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 ...
July 10, 2023 A study has identified genes involved in development of stone cells -- rigid cells that can block a nibbling insect from eating budding branches of the Sitka spruce evergreen tree. The insect's ...
May 25, 2023 Some of nature's most diverse pollinators often go unnoticed, even by scientists: long-snouted beetles called weevils. A new study provides a deep dive into the more than 600 species of weevils, ...
July 30, 2021 New research has found that two types of weevils, common yet invasive beetles in many parts of the world, have been using epigenetic changes to adapt and respond to different toxins in the plants ...
Aug. 10, 2021 The dining time of different insects impacts a plant's defenses and nutritional quality -- a complexity uncovered in new research with implications for pest management ...
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 ...
May 19, 2021 An ecologist investigates pest infestation in forests with mixed and monoculture tree ...
Mar. 27, 2023 While sampling for insects on former California Gov. Jerry Brown's ranch, a University of California, Berkeley, entomologist collected a rare species of beetle that had never been named or ...
May 11, 2021 Susceptibility of their microbial partners to the herbicide may be an underestimated weak spot of insects that could add to their ...