Annapolis, MD; July 24, 2018 -- Grasshoppers are one of the most ubiquitous groups of insects in the world, found everywhere from grasslands to tropical rainforests to isolated mountain ranges to ...

Herbivory rates were contrasted between Tabebuia aurea and T. ochracea in the cerrado, and on T. aurea in cerrado and the wetland Pantanal Matogrossense, where the species occurs in monodominant ...

Extant stick and leaf insects commonly imitate twigs or leaves, with lateral lamellae used to enhance crypsis or achieve mimicry for protection. However, the origin and early evolution of such lateral ...

In most developing tissues, signals called morphogens act like lighthouses, guiding nearby cells toward their fate and telling them what to become. Each cell relies on such signals for organized ...

This news release is available in German. The results, published by scientists from the 1KITE project (1,000 Insect Transcriptome Evolution, http://www.1kite.org ...

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Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

“The results of this work are immense and will be broadly adopted in general and systematic entomology books and textbooks,” Jakub Prokop, an entomologist at Charles University in Prague in the Czech ...