Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed beetle can safely feed on a toxic plant helps illuminate the ecological, evolutionary and economic impact of insect-plant interactions from a ...

The type of Welsh onions used in the experiment were a variety called Kujo negi. These onions are a traditional vegetable of the Kyoto region and a staple part of local cooking. Red nets are better at ...

State forestry officials plan to remove about 120 acres of red pine trees from a state park this winter to slow the spread of an aggressive insect that's destroyed thousands of the trees in southern ...

New Hampshire forestry officials have been removing about 120 acres of red pine trees from a state park in the last few weeks to slow the spread of an aggressive insect that's destroyed thousands of ...

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I hear the rolling kwirr-kwirr call of a red-bellied woodpecker outside the bedroom window every morning. I watch the bird hitch up a nearby pine tree, and I hear it tap the bark with its long, chisel ...

Once there was a color so valuable that emperors and conquistadors coveted it, and so did kings and cardinals. Artists went wild over it. Pirates ransacked ships for it. Poets from Donne to Dickinson ...

A mating pair of red milkweed beetles pictured in the spring of 2024 on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Studying the secrets of how the common red milkweed ...

CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire forestry officials plan to remove about 120 acres of red pine trees from a state park this winter to slow the spread of an aggressive insect that’s destroyed thousands of ...

Biologists have curated the red milkweed beetle's genome and its arsenal of genes related to plant-feeding and other biological traits. They sequenced and assembled the entire genome of the ...