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Richer Countries Strain Developing Ones by Importing Crops That Need Pollinators

Malavika Vyawahare 15/03/2021

A new study reaffirms that threats to biodiversity in...

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Earth’s Insect Populations Are Falling 1-2% a Year

Liz Kimbrough 31/01/2021

Precipitous insect declines are being escalated by humanity as...

phytoacoustics, pollen, pollination, evening primrose, bees, vibrations, animal hearing, bioengineering, Tel Aviv University, laser vibrometry, evolution, nectar, caterpillars, evolutionary biology,

Plants Know When a Bee Is Passing by and Produce Sweeter Nectar

Sarah Iqbal 07/08/2019

This happens because, as scientists have shown for the...

RNA interference, Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, electron microscopy, melanisation, EOF1, mosquito eggs, eggshell organising factor, Zika, malaria, dengue, kala azar, chikungunya, yellow fever, insecticides, bees, nicotinoids, molecular inhibitor,

Scientists Identify Protein That Mosquitoes Need to Lay Viable Eggs

Sukanya Charuchandra 15/01/2019

It's the first step to devising insecticides that specifically...

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The Last Insect You’d Expect to Put up With Laziness Is the Ant – but It Does

Janaki Lenin 24/09/2017

Ant colonies put up with inefficient gold bricks in...

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Could a Pest of the Honey Industry Clean up Plastic Waste?

Janaki Lenin 20/09/2017

In 12 hours, 100 wax moth caterpillars had reduced...

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Robot Bees vs Real Bees – Why Tiny Drones Can’t Compete With the Real Thing

Elizabeth Franklin 14/02/2017

Researchers in Japan have been exploring the potential of...