Science news articles about 'what insect'

  • What's bugging locusts?

    ... on either side. Animal groups such as flocks of birds, schools of fish and swarms of insects frequently exhibit such complex and coordinated collective motion and present a great opportunity to ...
  • Memory in honeybees: What the right and left antenna tell the left and right brain

    ... species is going on and brain lateralization has been extended beyond the class Vertebrata. Insects, with their nervous system so different from that of vertebrates, are also "lateralized", as shown ...
  • Unlocking genome of world's worst insect pest

    ... help establish us as leaders in organising major insect genome projects." The project is another example of what can be achieved through collaboration between scientists and their institutions ...
  • What it's like to be a bat

    ... that are essential to complex behaviors." For example, when a bat pursues prey, a moth or some other insect, it computes the 3D location of objects in its environment--a tree, a wall or a lamppost-- ...
  • Unknown disease killing off Florida's state tree

    ... researchers are struggling to identify. Even after scientists pinpoint the disease - and that could take years - they will have to learn what insect spreads it. The disease will be tough to stop....
  • Ancient moss, insects found in Antarctica

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mosses once grew and insects crawled in what are now barren valleys in Antarctica, according to scientists who have recovered remains of life from that frozen continent. ...
  • What is wild? Odor attraction among different wildtype Drosophila

    ... do not just rely on one single odor that is stimulating their antennae. Moreover, the insects' behavior is not only regulated positively by attractive odors, but also negatively by deterring volatile ...
  • Researchers uncover world's oldest fossil impression of a flying insect

    ... animals. "Once we pin down what type of insect it is we can begin to think about the conditions, the climate ... moment 300 million years ago The insect lived in the Pennsylvanian Era - the second half ...
  • Ancient insect imprint found in Massachusetts

    NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still ...
  • Melting defects could lead to smaller, more powerful microchips

    ... natural forces acting on the molten structures, such as surface tension -- the force that allows some insects to walk on water -- smooth the structures into geometrically more accurate shapes. Lines, ...
  • Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species

    ... with data describing the relationship between temperatures and fitness for a variety of temperate and tropical insect species, as well as frogs, lizards and turtles. Fitness levels were measured by ...
  • Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators

    ... , packing 65% more protein into their pollen than plant species that do not have to rely on insect pollinators. They also discovered that bumblebees prefer to visit plants with the most protein-rich ...
  • Screw worm outbreak in Yemen

    ... pest was introduced into Yemen after infected cattle were imported from neighbouring countries. "This insect pest is not restricting itself to one country, flies have no passports, they just cross ...
  • The Antennae Galaxies move closer

    ... for the two long tails of stars, gas and dust that resemble the antennae of an insect. These “antennae” are a physical result of the collision between the two galaxies. Studying their properties gives ...
  • DNA fingerprinting simplified

    ... exercise, the internally transcribed spacer region of the ribosomal subunit for a fungus, plant, and insect are amplified and separated electrophoretically on agarose gels. A simple crime is solved ...

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