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July 10, 2023 — Researchers have found toxins in the venom of asp caterpillars are completely different to anything they have seen before in insects. Toxins in the caterpillar venom punch holes in cells the same way ...
Mar. 22, 2023 — Moderate levels of artificial light at night -- like the fixture illuminating your backyard -- bring more caterpillar predators and reduce the chance that these lepidoptera larvae grow up to become ...
Oct. 23, 2023 — Researchers have solved the structure of a novel insecticidal protein that is effective in protecting major crop plants like corn and soybean from pests and is naturally produced by ...
Nov. 23, 2021 — A research team was able to find a previously unknown glacial relic in the Alps, the Alpine rose leaf-miner moth. It is the first known species to have its caterpillars specializing on the rust-red ...
July 13, 2023 — Butterflies and moths share 'blocks' of DNA dating back more than 200 million years, new research ...
Dec. 4, 2020 — Scientists have discovered that cowpeas -- a type of bean plant -- harbor receptors on the surface of their cells that can detect a compound in caterpillar saliva and initiate anti-herbivore ...
Sep. 1, 2022 — The greatest diversity of life is not counted in the number of species, says an evolutionary geneticist, but in the diversity of interactions among them. He says it's often unclear if the ...
Feb. 19, 2021 — Zoologists report the discovery of a trove of fossil fly larvae, and an intriguing caterpillar, encapsulated in samples of amber that are tens of millions of years ...
June 22, 2021 — The venom of a caterpillar, native to South East Queensland, shows promise for use in medicines and pest control, researchers ...
Nov. 15, 2022 — The defense mechanisms plants use to recognize and respond to a common pest -- the caterpillar -- has arisen from a single gene that evolved over millions of years, according to a new ...
