The silverleaf whitefly is a major crop pest in the tropics and subtropics. After studying its genome, an INRAE researcher and a CNRS researcher identified 49 plant genes transferred to the insect’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

Insect life-cycle polymorphism : introduction / S. Masaki and W. Wipking -- Diversity and integration of life-cycle controls in insects / H.V. Danks -- Seasonal plasticity and life-cycle adaptations ...

Venus flytraps and other carnivorous plants don’t get enough nutrients from the surrounding soil, explain our readers ...

Researchers have discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves against ...

The head of UMK's Department of Veterinary Preclinical Sciences said significant changes in leaf insect populations could signal imbalances within forest ecosystems. "When leaf insect populations ...

Scientists of the Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis and the Experimental Ecology and Evolution Group at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, found that acquiring a ...

Nature can be extraordinary in its resilience. Take the survival adaptation of this insect, which is raising eyebrows across the Internet in expressions of both awe and horror. KXAN reports people in ...

On Monday, November 16, Tapping Our Watershed presents “Amazing Aquatic Insects: Adaptations for Living in Water” with Stefanie Kroll, Project Science Director at the Academy of Natural Sciences of ...

Japanese researchers have developed a new approach to controlling cyborg insects that focuses on ...