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Insights into a receptor that lets insects sense scents（图）
odor receptors olfactory system Mh OR5 Orco
2021/8/9
In insects, odorant receptor proteins form membrane ion channels that open on binding to an odorant molecule. The structures of an inactive and an active channel lend insights into how insects detect ...
Weather surveillance radar data shows 45 million insects taking flight over brightly lit city（图）
Weather surveillance radar data 45 million insects flight lit city
2021/4/16
The expansion of artificial night lights globally has had important impacts on animal behavior and health. A new study led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma on the effects of brig...
Immune and circulatory systems are integrated in insects（图）
Immun circulatory systems integrated insects
2020/12/18
Biologists have found solid proof that among the insect tree of life, the relationship between the immune and circulatory systems is consistent. The discovery will help researchers understand how inse...
GoPro for beetles: Researchers create a robotic camera backpack for insects（图）
GoPro for beetles robotic camera backpack insects
2020/7/24
In the movie Ant-Man, the title character can shrink in size and travel by soaring on the back of an insect. Now researchers at the University of Washington have developed a tiny wireless, s...
Noise pollution from gas compressors changes abundance of insects, spiders
Noise pollution gas compressors insects spiders
2017/7/20
The relentless roar of natural gas compressors influences the numbers of insects and spiders nearby, triggering decreases in many types of arthropods sensitive to sounds and vibrations, a collaborativ...
Insects resist genetic methods to control disease spread,Indiana University study finds
Insects resist genetic methods control disease spread Indiana University
2017/7/20
Researchers are exploring the use of the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to fight human disease and agricultural blight. But a study from Indiana University has found several challenges to...
History,presence and perspective of using plant extracts as commercial botanical insecticides and farm products for protection against insects–a review
medicinal plants essential oils Azadirachta Pyrethrum mechanism of action
2016/9/2
Botanical insecticides keep attracting more attention from environmental and small farmers worldwide as they are considered as a suitable alternative to synthetic insecticides. The use of secondary me...
Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' --by insects
Researchers oldest evidence farming insects
2016/7/4
The team, led by Eric Roberts of James Cook University along with researchers from Ohio University, discovered the oldest known examples of "fungus gardens" in 25 million-year-old fossil termite ...
Key scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) of high economic importance in a Mediterranean area: host plants, bio-ecological characteristics, natural enemies and pest management strategies – a review
Planococcus ficus Planococcus citri Saissetia oleae Parlatoria ziziphi grapevine citrus olive Integrated Pest Management Tunisia
2017/4/6
Key scale insects that have long been considered as having high economic importance in Tunisia and for which several research studies and pest management programs have been undertaken include the meal...
Plant cell walls are comprised of many complex polymers that require multiple different enzymes to fully break down, such as cellulase to digest cellulose and xylanase to digest xylan. For decades sci...
Consequences of Fragmentation of Tropical Moist Forest for Birds and Their Role in Predation of Herbivorous Insects
avian diversity caterpillar predation fragmentation herbivory
2015/11/13
The consequences of habitat alteration on the role of understory insectivorous birds as predators of herbivorous insects in tropical forests are poorly understood. To examine whether fragmentation may...
One day a few years ago, while working on wasps in a rainforest in Costa Rica, entomologist Kevin J. Loope, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Riverside, began reading about th...
The fauna of cambioxylophagous insects on Scots pine trees declined after spells of drought in 2003
cambioxylophagous insects Scots pine drought spell
2015/3/6
The paper deals with cambioxylophagous insects on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees. Research was conducted in forest stands growing on steep slopes on the left bank of the Otava River about 1 km...
A Phylogenetic Analysis of Armored Scale Insects, Based Upon Nuclear, Mitochondrial, and Endosymbiont Gene Sequences
Diaspididae Coccoidea evolution
2015/1/4
Armored scale insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) are among the most invasive insects in the world. They have unusual genetic systems, including diverse types of paternal genome elimination (PGE) and par...
‘Yuk, the Skin of Insects!’ Tracking Sources of Errors in Second Language Reading Comprehension
Text Reading and Interpretation English as a Second Language Second Language Acquisition
2014/11/11
Readers for whom English is a second language often misinterpret texts. One source for such errors is failing to accurately recognize phonemic and graphemic features, leading to interpreting a text wi...