Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

In the insect world things are often not what they ... sitting motionless on the tree trunks into which they blend. Some creatures even change color to blend with new surroundings, like the ...

Now we were interested in an endophytic fungus whose role in poplar-insect interactions ... with the tree, is important for understanding the complexity of the co-evolution of trees and other ...

Descended from more archaic relatives, the early true mammals were mainly small insect-eating creatures adapted ... offering novel habitats for what would become tree-dwelling mammals -- primates ...

In a new study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Kiel, Germany, report on the influence of an endophytic fungus of the ...

Insect Ecology and Adaptation - research group studies diverse topics of insect ecology and evolution. Our model systems include both economically important forest insects (e.g. pine sawflies and bark ...

(Darwin 131–132) In the years following Darwin's work, biologists formally rejected the ladder of life in favor of the tree concept. Nonetheless, many current discussions of evolution ...

Kozhikode: Forest department launched a multi-institutional study to see if the tiny insect attacking an invasive tree can be used for biological control of the invasive alien tree, Senna ...