Annapolis, MD; November 12, 2019--While the field of morphology--the study of the form and function of organisms--is centuries old, the last two decades have brought incredible leaps forward through ...
Forensic entomology harnesses the life cycles and behaviours of insects to provide critical evidence in death investigations, particularly for estimating the post‐mortem interval (PMI). At its core, ...
In 2015, Professor Gervásio Silva Carvalho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS) in the South ...
Lepidopteran crop pests like Spodoptera litura (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Chilo partellus (Swinhoe) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), Plutella xylostella (L ...
The massive decline of over 75% insect biomass reported from Germany between 1989 and 2013 by expert citizen scientists proves the urgent need for new methods and standards for fast and wide-scale ...
Silene dioica (L.) Clairv was studied in several wild populations near Swansea and in an experimental population to determine the extent of differences between the sexes in floral morphology, nectar ...
Scientists show for the first time that insects appeared on earth some 480 million years ago. They were able to adapt to environmental changes quickly and became the world's largest and most diverse ...
While the new Coronavirus will, hopefully, be effectively controlled sooner rather than later, its latest namesake is here to stay - a small caddisfly endemic to a national park in Kosovo that is new ...
Today’s Wow Bibionids (March Flies) take us back to the Eocene, 56 to 34 million years ago. Fossilized Bibionids like these are very common in fossil insect deposits from Florissant and the Green ...