Things to remember when considering digital pictures: If insect is found feeding on a plant, correct specimen identification may also require an identification of the plant as well. Here are some ...

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

The Northern Territory's most significant collection of preserved insects has opened its doors to the NT Field Naturalists' Club in the hopes of deepening ties between experts and citizen scientists.

The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...

“It’s exceedingly rare to find a specimen where both the insect and the pollen are preserved in a single fossil,” said David Dilcher, the study’s co-author. “Aside from the significance ...

The insect specimen, the star of our show, is placed on a circular mount. This mount can rotate, spinning the insect like a top (though not as quickly!). Surrounding the mount is a plastic light ...

The Insect Pest Control Subprogramme carries out Research and Development activities (R&D) at the Insect Pest Control Laboratory located at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratories in ...

Insect and spider bites can cause small lacerations, swelling, skin discoloration, blisters, and other symptoms. Home treatment may relieve symptoms but some bites may need medical attention ...

As this huge insect group grows ... The first name comes from Charles Darwin (who collected the first specimen in 1832). The second is in honour of Radio 4 favourite David Sedaris, "as an ...

The sterile insect technique is an environmentally-friendly insect pest control method involving the mass-rearing and sterilization, using radiation, of a target pest, followed by the systematic ...

The answer begins in the late 1800s, when insect gonad cells, whose large chromosomes are easy to view through a microscope, were the specimen of choice for investigating the cellular basis of ...